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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Tata Steel awaits Jharkhand R&R policy to start 12-mtpa project
Arindam Sinha Jamshedpur: Tata Steel wants to begin work on the proposed 12-mtpa greenfield project near Tontaposhi in the Seraikela-Kharswan district, 35 km from here, once the newly elected state government puts in place a formal resettlement & rehabilitation (R&R) policy. The Rs 50,000-crore project involves acquisition of around 10,000 acres of land.
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SC declines to vacate HC stay on Indira Sagar, Omkareshwar canals
The Supreme Court has declined to vacate MP High Court
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Big dams and protests in India: A study of Hirakud Dam
This article examines the movement against the construction of the Hirakud dam in Orissa. It is evident that the domestic resistance to the project was variously compromised by nationalist rhetoric, imperatives of state development and absence of transnational support.
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Institutional dysfunction and challenges in flood control: A case study of the Kosi flood 2008
The Kosi flood disaster of 2008 in Bihar and also in Nepal highlights two key issues relating to flood control. The first is the failure of the structural approach to flood control on the Kosi and the second is institutional dysfunction with respect to trans-boundary flood management.
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Govt asked to clarify on Subansiri project
GUWAHATI, Jan 6
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Ensure peoples safety in Subansiri project area
The All Dhemaji District Students
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Mangla dam affectees call on minister
AJK Minister for Mangla Dam affairs, wild life and fisheries Chaudhry Muhammad Yousaf has said that the inauguration of under construction Mangla dam raising project will be exercised only after completion of entire project.
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The case for social safeguards in a post-2012 agreement on REDD
This paper explores the policy need and legal case for including social safeguards in a post-2012 agreement on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).
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Climate change migrants
The First Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990 noted that the greatest single impact of climate change might be on human migration. The report estimated that by 2050, 150 million people could be displaced by climate change-related phenomenon. More recent studies increase this estimate.
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Elephants to get wider passage
On November 6, 2009 the Madras High Court asked the Tamil Nadu forest department to submit a detailed map demarcating elephant corridors in the Niligiri mountains for conservation. The directions were given while ordering a ban on new constructions in the forest corridors used by about 1,000 elephants.