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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Medha wants parties to go green to protect environment
Bilaspur: Noted environmentalist Medha Patkar today said that political parties must turn
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Metro I: displaced people threaten to move court
Mumbai The city
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F For Failed
DR MANMOHAN Singh is an honourable man. He is soft-spoken, decent and, unlike most Indian politicians, he did not seek high office to line his pockets with ill-gotten wealth. For that alone, we in India, who continue to suffer consistently at the hands of dark politicians who steal from us, should be eternally grateful.
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Massive dam to fill leaking buckets
The city of Delhi gets a lot of rain every year, more than sufficient for its needs, but it does not use that rainwater. The city gets huge quantity of water from dams and rivers from long distances, equal to one of the highest quantity of water in the nation when compared on per capita basis.
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National tribal policy 2006 (draft): a review
This policy brief examines provisions of the national tribal policy 2006 on key issues affecting Adivasis in the current socio-political context. It points out gaps and loopholes in the policy and includes suggestions to make the policy more holistic with respect to Adivasi issues.
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Linking environmental change, migration & social vulnerability
Migration is part of human history; the concept of environmental migration however, is still controversially debated. While some scholars predict high numbers of people migrating due to climate and environmental changes, others still insist that there is not enough scientific evidence for the existence of the phenomenon of environmental migration at all.
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'Dam virus' engulfs Arunachal Pradesh
<p>The North-east is slated to be India's 'future power house' with approximately 170 large hydroelectric projects to generate around 70,000 MW planned in the region. The large dams juggernaut promises to be the biggest 'development' intervention in this ecologically and geologically fragile, seismically active and culturally sensitive landscape in the days to come.</p>
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Wildlife habitat enrichment for mitigating human-elephant conflict by biological displacement of lantana
The paper presents the findings of 7year long field trial of a fodder plantation technique specially designed for enrichment of wildlife habitats by biological displacement of Lantana cover by bamboo in a Lantana-infested area. The field trial was carried out between 1995-96 and 2002-03 in Rajaji National Park.
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Suit against dam
View image Polavaram hydropower project will flood Orissa
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In court
water feud: Acting on a petition against the Kalasa-Bhandura diversion project, the Karnataka high court has issued show cause notice to the state government and the Union ministry of environment and forests. The project will divert 7,560 million cubic metres of water from river Mandovi to river Malaprabha and displace Kankumbi and Nerse villages, said Paryavarni, a non-profit based in Belgaum