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
A new organisation to protect tribals was launched here on the first death anniversary of slain brigand Veerappan, under the leadership of his widow Muthulakshmi. The
The UN Population Fund report on the State of the World Population 2005, released recently. The report sounds an alarm for efforts in the fight against poverty, naming gender discrimination as one of
The Prime Minister's Office has decided to back the contentious tribal rights Bill prepared by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs over the alternative draft put up by the Ministry of Environment and
Ranganathan (48) of Agaram village in Krishnagiri district, who was working as a bonded labour in a stone quarry in Andhra Pradesh, felt very happy when he was rescued by the Tamil Nadu government in
The World Bank is set to spend $600 million on two mega hydro-projects in the country over the next four years. It is looking at a proposal to fund a second tunnel in the Naphtha Jhakhri project in
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has asked the newly-formed Administrative Reforms Committee to focus on Naxal-affected areas and suggest measures to strengthen the delivery systems, allow
Describing Naxalism as a "serious threat" to internal security, the Government stressed the need to accord a high priority to ensuring faster integrated development of Maoist affected areas. Home
A silent revolution is on in the villages of India to strengthen the leadership potential of the elected women representatives in the panchayats , so that they can make hunger, poverty and injustice
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sought a consensus on the issue of granting rights to tribals so that the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Rights) Bill was tabled in Parliament in the winter
Japan's population stood at 126,869,397 as of 31 March , up a mere 0.4% from a year earlier, with the male population down 10,680- the first yearly decline since the survey was introduced affairs