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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Project-hit launch indefinite demonstration
Siddhesh Inamdar Mumbai: Project-displaced people from Pune, Hingoli, Nandurbar, Satara and other districts of Maharashtra gathered at the Azad Maidan here on Thursday and announced the start of an indefinite demonstration, asking for justice. The agitation has been organised by the National Alliance of Peoples Movements and is being led by activist Medha Patkar.
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Keeping Indias economic engine going: Climate change and the urbanisation question
Urbanisation in India is both a necessary input and an inevitable consequence of growth. However, we must accept that the existing urbanisation models are unsustainable at the Indian scale and there is no available alternative trajectory.
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Compensation to Mapithel dam-affected people sought
The Mapithel Dam Affected Ching-Tam Organization (MDACTO) chairman, Rantha Shaiza, addressing a press conference in Imphal today, said that they were not against the construction of Mapithel dam, their only demand was that the Government of Manipur give appropriate compensation without any discrimination to the people affected by the dam.
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Sankhuwasabha landslide: 200 more displaced
More than 200 people of 39 families have been displaced due to the flood at Sikidim of Tamku-9 in Sankhuwasabha on Thursday. The police officers who are in the rescue mission have started to collect the numbers of displaced. Landslides have started to occur at Devithandanda where displaced 18 families with 81 members were sheltered.
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Hundreds displaced due to floods
Hundreds of families have been displaced from their homes in various districts across the country due to floods ensued by incessant rains since the past few days.
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495 families displaced by Kotmale Reservoir Project resettled
The government yesterday donated houses to 495 families who were displaced by the construction of the Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project, inaugurated by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President
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Social security, compensation and reconstruction of livelihoods
The inevitable displacement of indigenous people due to transformation of their habitats for use in industrial projects is one of the consequences of the Indian economic growth story. Many issues abound
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Erosion by three rivers to displace 22,000 this year
About 21,750 people of several riverbank areas are likely be landless and homeless as erosions by the Jamuna, Padma and Ganges rivers will devour 2,178 hectares of land in 17 districts of the country this year.
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1.58 lakh hectares devoured, 20 lakh rendered homeless in 36 years by 3 major rivers
Three major rivers of the country---the Jamuna, the Ganges and the Padma---devoured 1,58,780 hectares of land, rendering about 20 lakh people homeless since 1973, a research organisation working with river and water resources said here on Wednesday.
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Landslides, Floods Plague Quake-Hit Southwest China
Four construction workers are dead and more than 50 missing after a landslide took out a dam project in Sichuan province, in the latest of a series of disasters caused by heavy rains in southwest China.