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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Without vision
Current conservation policies have done more harm than good
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Preparing the jungle for its king
The introduction of the lion to the Kuno forests has been meticulously planned
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Resettlement & rehabilitation. New policy, old story
the government announced the new National Policy on Resettlement and Rehabilitation (nprr) 2007 on October 11. Though it heralded the policy as ground-breaking, a closer look reveals gaping holes,
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Safe custody
A zoo in Gujarat has provided yeoman service in preserving the Asiatic lion
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Why is the Left giving up Singur's arable land for Tata's cars?
<i>The Hindu</i> of December 13, 2006 published a write-up on Singur on its op-ed page: "Some facts, please' by <font class="UCASE">cpi(m</font>) politburo member and leading intellectual Brinda Karat. She was countering what she called a smear campaign against the <font class="UCASE">cpi</font><font class="UCASE">m)</font> over the acquisition of land for the proposed Tata Motors project at Singur. There are some more facts, however, that I would like to bring to her notice. But before that I would also like to thank her for having brought some key issues to the fore.
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Relocation of wildlife in Indira Sagar Reservoir area affects tribals
forest officials of Narmada Valley Development Authority (nvda) launched an operation in March 2007 to shift monkeys and nilgai from an island in the Indira Sagar Reservoir area near Chhanera in
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UP farmers continue protest over land acquisition by Reliance
Following farmers' protests against their displacement for land acquired for special economic zones (sezs), the central government on January 22, 2007, held up approvals for fresh sezs. So far, the
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The big picture
That nobody has bothered about
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We cannot turn the clock back
The need of the hour is to reconcile apparently irreconcilable interests
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Another crisis
AS THE United Nations labours to clear the mess it has been accused of creating in providing refugee relief in Somalia and in the elections and peace process in Angola, World Health