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
Displacement
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Amending the Mining Act
Profit sharing by mining firms might open an window of innovative accounting, says the author.
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16 million displaced by floods, says UNHCR
QUETTA, Aug 31: The country director of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said that floods and torrential rains had affected over 20 million people and displaced 16 million Pakistanis. Addressing a press conference at the UNHCR office here on Tuesday, Mengesha Kebede said the flood-affected area was equal to the size of Italy. He said that UNHCR had been in Balochistan since
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It can be painless
Some civil servants have relocated forest dwellers successfully.
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The Butterfly Effect
A proactive minister puts Paryavaran Bhavan in focus. The development dauphins are aflutter.When did you last hear of an Indian cabinet minister being compared to Muhammad Ali? Well, that
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Tribal activists keen to continue the fight
LANJIGARH: Even as the Centre has dealt a body blow to the expansion project of the UK-based Vedanta in Kalahandi by rejecting the stage-II forest clearance from its proposed mining project at Niyamgiri, tribals fighting to save their habitat on Thursday announced that the campaign would continue. Kunti Majhi, the president of Niyamgiri Suraksha Parishad, said that he was quite happy that the N
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50,000 displaced in Assam flash floods
Heavy monsoon rains triggered flash floods in Assam on Saturday, displacing at least 50,000 people in the State
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Fearing quake, Ukhand to relocate 101 villages
Dehradun: A day after 18 students died as their school building caved in following landslides, the state government on Friday decided to relocate 101 villages situated in extremely dangerous and seismologically sensitive places across Garhwal and Kumaon regions. Chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said in Bageshwar that the government had identified the villages on the basis of a survey
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Mizo Govt receives list of Bru refugees
AIZAWL, Aug 19
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Monitoring and evaluation of forest area diversion including the status of compliance of approval conditionalities and impact of forest diversion cases on the forest & wildlife Metal and mineral mining
<p>14 mining leases were visited in five forest divisions (Satna, Balaghat, Bhandara, Kolhapur and Vadodara) spread across three states namely Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The study included various minerals like Limestone, Bauxite, Ochre, Manganese, Fluorspar and Kyanite. (Out of 14 mining leases 3 were for underground mining and 11 were for opencast mining.)</p> <p> </p>
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Vedanta report spares none, indicts Odisha, Ministries
Its indictment of the Odisha Government apart, the NC Saxena Committee, which authored the report on investigation into the proposal submitted by Vedanta for bauxite mining at Niyamgiri hills, hasn