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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50 unauthorised structures pulled down at Hatirjheel
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha on Tuesday demolished at least 50 unauthorised structures at Hatirjheel in the Hatirjheel-Begunbari Integrated Development Project area. The pulled down structures include tin and bamboo made shanties beside the Moghbazar level crossing and some concrete structures opposite the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation.
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AJK government to extend maximum relief to Mangla dam victims
AJK government is determined to take all possible effective steps to ensure disbursement of maximum relief and compensatory funds to Mangla dam victims which have already been released by the government.
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Left loses in Singur, Nandigram
The Left Front won in Panchayat Elections in May 2008 but it came with a pinch of salt. The polls indicated that the industrialization drive has not gone down well with the rural electorate. The
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Land acquisition, rehabilitation bills cater to corporate interests
Two pieces of legislation, which will impact millions of people displaced or threatened with displacement in the name of development, will soon come up for discussion in the monsoon session of
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Native wisdom
"Engineers like me can't help marvel at the Agaria's skills,' says Vinay Mahajan of the Ahmedabad-based independent research institute Sandarbh Development Studies. Mahajan has co-authored a paper,
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Duplicity
While the Agarias wage a constant struggle with the forest department, the government has allegedly turned a blind eye to pollution by two soda ash-making units run by major industrial groups. At
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Effluents from Tata
At the Tata plant in Mithapur, effluent is taken to huge mud trenches, effluent-settlement ponds, which cover about 243 ha. The liquid is supposed to go to the sea from here after suspended solids in
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Scorching salt
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People clash over POSCO
<font class="UCASE">pro-</font> and anti- <font class="UCASE">posco</font> groups in Orissa clashed again. It is alleged that the hand of a 58-year old man of the <font class="UCASE">posco</font> -support group was chopped off on May 14 by project opponents led by the <font class="UCASE">posco</font> Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (<font class="UCASE">ppss</font>).
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Erosion driving people to other States
The living condition of the people of Paschim Ratiadaha part-II village under Bisondoi gaon panchayat in the far western part of the Indo-Bangladesh border in Golokganj LAC of Dhuburi district are in a deplorable state as the villagers are yet to see the development even after six decades of India's Independence. The heavy-erosion of the river Gangadhar has made more than 300 families of Ratiadaaha part-II village homeless and has devastated their cultivable lands. As a result, the homeless families have to take shelter on roads and dykes.