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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South Asia
Loss from Sidr: The economic loss caused by super cyclone Sidr that hit Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, is more than us $ 4.4 billion, reveals a survey conducted by the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh. The cyclone completely destroyed about 4,10,000 hectares of farmland and damaged 12 lakh tonnes of the Aman paddy crop, which accounts for 40 per cent of the
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Heavy metal
Fury over Vedanta, POSCO verdict the Supreme Court cleared two major projects in Orissa
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Against the wall
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Floods displace 40,000 in Nepal
Around 40,000 residents of at least 10 village development committees (VDC) along the Koshi river in Susari district in eastern Nepal have been forced to take shelter in local schools and their relatives' houses as the swollen river has breached an embankment in the western side.
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Floods displace 40,000 in Nepal
Around 40,000 residents of at least 10 village development committees (VDC) along the Koshi river in Susari district in eastern Nepal have been forced to take shelter in local schools and their relatives' houses as the swollen river has breached an embankment in the western side.
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Tigers in, people out
<i>Maharashtra preparing to relocate people but without groundwork</i><br/><br/>
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Climate change and environmental displacement
The forthcoming issue of FMR includes a major feature on climate change and displacement. It presents a wide range of articles, written by UN, academic, international and local actors, addressing issues of interest to people concerned with the potential for climate change to contribute to causing displacement and with the effects on those people having to adapt or migrate. 35 articles explore the extent of the potential displacement crisis, factors affecting displaced people and the search for solutions.
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Global warming may boost migration from Bangla
The perplex tackling of Bangladeshi illegal immigrations into India will be more pronounced due to global warming, felt Meghalaya Additional Director General of Police Kulbir Kishen. Presenting a paper at a two-day national seminar in Shillong on Saturday, the ADGP anticipated a bigger problem, if scientists' prediction about global warming is to be believed. Due to global warming, a one metre rise of the ocean water will swamp 25 per cent of Bangladesh land and those displaced Bangladeshis will look up and rush to India, stated Kishen.
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Decks cleared for settling Pong Dam oustees
Special Correspondent Himachal, Rajasthan to sign MoU to resolve the issue Pong dam is the main source of water for the Indira Gandhi Canal Project 2,631 remaining oustees will be rehabilitated in IGNP's second phase region JAIPUR: The Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh Governments have agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding to resolve the three-decade-old contentious issue of rehabilitation of oustees of the Pong dam, which is the main source of water for the Indira Gandhi Canal Project (IGNP).
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Land acquisition and national highways
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has embarked on a grand project of four- and/or six-laning of the existing roads to a target of 14,000 km, especially the east-west and north-south corridors. This is a good thing because the country needs proper roads for its development and road construction provides employment. This aspect of development, nevertheless, is also harmful if not managed carefully, because road development requires the basic ingredient of land. People may be displaced or otherwise adversely affected due to land acquisition. (Letters)