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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Addressing the humanitarian challenges of climate change: regional and national perspectives
Humanitarian actors are confronted with the impacts of climate change on a daily basis. This is reflected in this report. The report documents projects by the key organisations involved in humanitarian activities - UN and intergovernmental organisations, NGOs and Red Cross Red Crescent - that contribute to climate change adaptation.
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Searching for a third way in Dantewada
<p>The interests of both the State and the Maoists are served by reducing the complex and many-layered tragedy unfolding in the forests of Dantewada to a battle between Good and Evil. For the Maoists, the people are subordinate to the revolution; for the government, the people are a minor expendable detail in the mineral-rich territory they live in.
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NMRI to conduct extensive research in Narmada Basin
A team of experts from the National Malaria Research Institute (NMRI) is conducting extensive research in Narmada Basin for making preventive strategy to safe guard the health of people affected from various dam reservoirs. On the initiative of Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) , NMRI has agreed to prepare an action plan for the health care of project affected families.
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Industrialisation policy harms poor: Pandey
Visakhapatnam, April 14: Criticising the attitude of government towards industrialisation, displacement and rise in pollution levels, Mr San-deep Pandey, social activist and national convenor of the National Alliance of People
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Govt proposes to make land-losers stakeholders
The government is considering a proposal to make it mandatory for companies like Vedanta Resources and ArcelorMittal to offer shares to those displaced by their future mining projects. But the move is being opposed by the industry.
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Tata Steel committed to Seraikela venture
Tata Steel, which has embarked on a Rs 15,000-crore project to expand its Jamshedpur plant, has no plans to shelve its proposed Rs 40,000-crore project from Jharkhand
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Activists, CPM put blame on Centres mining policy
EVEN as civil rights alarmists play the victim card on behalf of Maoists by describing the Dantewada massacre as a
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Sardar Sarovar Dam may violate norms
Bhopal: News has spread like wildfire through western India that in its 1 April meeting, the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) Environmental Sub-Group (ESG) has recommended permission for the erection of 17 meter high gates on the Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSP) in Gujarat.
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No law violated, not a single tribal displaced in Niyamgiri
Rishi Raj, Rajat Guha
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Tata Motors pays Rs 1-cr lease rent on Singur land
Tata Motors has paid the lease rent of Rs 1 crore till March next year for its land at Singur, where the company