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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Rampaging rivers kill 28 in UP, Centre calls it `unprecedented'
Over 1,500 Villages Inundated Flood fury continued unabated in Uttar Pradesh claiming 28 lives and displacing over 60,000 people in nine districts bordering Nepal till Sunday evening. As Rapti, Saryu
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Babai flooding worst in six decades, claims 51 lives
The swelling Babai River has claimed 51 lives, left hundreds missing and caused thousands to be displaced from their homes in different districts, including Dang. A total of 51 persons--23 from Surkhet,
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UP flood toll at 28; more than 1,000 villages hit
Twenty-eight persons have died so far in Uttar Pradesh in floods which have hit the state with several rivers flowing above the danger mark and posing a threat to more than 1,000 villages in the affected
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Polavaram project likely to submerge 276 villages in Andhra Pradesh
Government said on Wednesday that 276 villages in Andhra Pradesh, four villages in Chhattisagarh and eight villages in Odisha are likely to be submerged due to Polavaram Dam project. "276 villages in
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Polavaram project may sink 276 Andhra villages'
Replying to a question in Lok Sabha, environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said that 276 villages in Andhra Pradesh, four in Chhattisagarh and eight in Odisha are likely to be submerged due
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World Bank to fund ecologically safe power projects
KOLKATA: A World Bank economist has said that the lender will fund only those hydropower projects where safeguards are in place to prevent any adverse impact on the environment. "We are prepared to
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The Rajasthan Land Acquisition Bill, 2014
A Bill to provide for, and expedite the process of, land acquisition for public purposes with the least disturbance to owners of the land and other interested persons and to provide for fair and better
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Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Social Impact Assessment and Consent) Rules, 2014
Whereas certain draft rules, namely the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Social Impact Assessment and Consent) Rules, 2014 were published
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5,000 displaced for Jamuna erosion in Bogra
About 5,000 residents of Shariakandi upazila have been compelled to move away from their homes recently as the erosions by the Jamuna River in the district took a serious turn in last 15 days. Sources
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Sunkoshi landslide toll touches 33
SINDHUPALCHOK: With recovery of 23 more bodies today, death toll in the landslide that struck Jure of Ramche VDC, Sindhupalchowk, on Saturday has reached 33. Among the bodies recovered today, 11 were