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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Red said go
West Bengal s Left Front government is all set to displace farmers
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Left in peace L.I.P.
Forget ideological shibboleths. The market is the great equaliser. Even politically
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Tiger trouble balancing act gone awry
<font class="UCASE">on january</font> 1, 2008, the government after much vacillation notified the rules of Scheduled Tribes and Other Tradi- tional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act. The day before, it had notified "critical tiger habitats' in 28 existing and eight proposed tiger reserves. It scored on both tiger conservation and protection of tribal rights.
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Caught in a crossfire
A proposed power generation project in Laos has become the target of environmentalists ire
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Proposed Schedule For Translocation Of Lions To Kuno Sanctuary
Jan-Feb 1995 •Preparation for relocation and rehabilitation of the local people from proposed national park area in Kuno with their consent. •Translocation of captured nilgai, sambar
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Gujarat faces forced land aquisition in name of industrialisation
Gujarat has received encomiums from many quarters for its rapid industrialisation. Industries have mushroomed all over the state, thanks to investment campaigns like
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Balding the urban landscape through shortsighted fiscal policies
Traditionally most urban areas in the country have grown out of rural settlements. Land use changes and population growth have precipitated urbanization in a lot of rural centres. Urbanization also
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When the land shouts
Van Gujjars in the Shivalik foothills vociferously claim managing authority of the Rajaji National Park
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The awakening of an ill tempered giant
Volcanic activity in the Zambales range, of which Mount Pinatubo is a part, started 7 million years ago and Pinatubo itself has been active for 1.1 million years. Pinatubo last erupted about 400 years ago.
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Contentious conservation
The concern over protecting the Asiatic lion relegated forestdwellers to secondary status in Gir