World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
At the Tata plant in Mithapur, effluent is taken to huge mud trenches, effluent-settlement ponds, which cover about 243 ha. The liquid is supposed to go to the sea from here after suspended solids in
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NEW DELHI: Nine activists, including survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and victims of water contamination, began a hunger strike here on Tuesday. The activists said the statement by Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan on the setting up of an empowered commission for rehabilitation made no mention of its powers; nor did he specify any time frame for submission of its recommendations. Also, the statement was silent on the issue of legal action against Union Carbide and Dow Chemicals.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that development of those sections of society is most important which are considered most backward and deprived. In comparison to well off section, it is masses and specially SC, ST and poor sections of society who need government's help more. This is why the state government is laying full emphasis on undertaking maximum number of welfare and development works in favour of the deprived sections of society.
The Planning Commission wants to douse this 'spreading bushfire of rural discontent' -Neha Sakhuja and Savvy Soumya Mishra Land alienation, poverty amongst scheduled tribes and dalits and lack of access to basic forest resources have contributed to the growth of naxalism, says the Planning Commission. Its report, Development challenges in extremist affected areas, indicts Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh. The report also critiques SEZs and the complete failure of instruments like the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 and the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.
In what is perhaps a first, Uttar Pradesh officials have received a book to make sure that the Chief Minister's announcements are implemented properly, and in time. "Uttar Pradesh ki Mukhya Mantri Mayawatiji ki ghoshnaon ka vivran' is meant for government officers. "The aim is to ensure that these announcements do not remain on paper and die a slow death,' said a senior government officer. The 153-page book is a compilation of 150 announcements Mayawati made in her one-year term
Rio De Janeiro: Dramatic photographs of previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the precariousness of the few remaining "lost' tribes and the dangers they face from contact with outsiders.
Central government has agreed to establish a Commission having special rights for Bhopal gas victims. Proposed commission would consider over different aspects of rehabilitation with consent of government of MP. It is a big achievement for the gas victims who had been staging dharna at Jantar Mantar in national capital Delhi for two months. Though all the three organisations of gas victims are not satisfied only with the establishment of the Commission, but it would prove a better platform to consider over their problems.