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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Jharia Vihar set for extension - 750 new rehab quarters on anvil for coalfield families
Dhanbad, July 19: After rehabilitating more than 270 families from the fire-affected areas of the Jharia coalfield region to Jharia Vihar colony, the Jharia Rehabilitation Development Authority (JRDA) has decided to add around 750 quarters to the existing colony. Currently, the Jharia Vihar colony has 2,352 quarters where illegal inhabitants of the coalfield region were shifted.
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Eco-issues block dam works
July 15: States that are squabbling over inter-state water distribution should resolve their differences through bilateral talks, said the secretary, Union water resources ministry, Mr U. N. Panjiar.
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Bid to settle dam impasse
Jamshedpur, July 14: Deputy commissioner of Seraikela-Kharsawan Gauri Prasad Sinha today directed the Subernarekha Multipurpose Project (SMP) authorities to speed up the process of paying compensation to the villagers who have been displaced following the closure of Chandil dam
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Implementation of Forest Rights Act
Central team may visit state on July 28 The central government
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Fall in number of migrants will hit rich countries
New Delhi: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) region registered its first ever recorded drop in permanent-type migration inflows in 2008, a trend that accelerated in 2009, the OECD
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Bangalore road widening will displace 3 lakh
The widening of 270 roads in the City would lead to the displacement of about three lakh people, the biggest urban displacement ever in Independent India, Manjunath of Save Bangalore, an organisation fighting road widening, said here on Saturday.
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Anti-Posco protests return to Orissa
Accusing Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of reneging on his promise to visit the site of Posco
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Posco survey over, admin now plans rehab meet
PARADIP: The district administration has decided to conduct Rehabilitation and Peripheral Development Advisory Committee (RPDAC) meeting next week to finalise the Posco compensation package. The decision comes after submission of Posco survey report to the State Government and Nodal Officer of Posco project today.
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Migrants may change Mumbai's polio stats
Mumbai: The polio round scheduled to be held on July 18 in Mumbai is likely to have the Bivalent vaccine for the first time. This is despite the fact that there has not been a single polio case in the city since 2008. But the authorities fear that with the increasing migrants from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, there are possibilities of polio cases being reported in the city.
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Comments and recommendations on the IFCs proposed policy on social and environmental sustainability and performance standards
The  International Finance Corporation (IFC) is reviewing its Sustainability Framework,