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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Green brakes on industry expansion in UP & MP
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday issued directions to authorities that no new industry be set up in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh's Sonebhadra district without requisite consent and clearances. A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar sought responses of the Centre and the governments of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh by March 3 on a plea opposing establishment of new units as well as expansion of existing ones in the two districts.
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No New Industries in UP, MP Without Proper Clearance: NGT
The National Green Tribunal today issued directions to authorities that no new industry be set up in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh's Sonebhadra district without requisite consent
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Affected people resist relocation without settlement of claims
Residents of 18 villages located within the limits of the Darawat Dam project are resisting relocation without settlement of their claims, pressing the Water and Power Development Authority to ask the
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People displaced by wildlife preserve to resort to 'do or die' protest
Families displaced by the Shuklaphanta Wild Life Preserve Area have declared that they were going to resort to a 'do or die' protest, as they have failed to get any compensation even after 12 years of
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'Upper Kotmale more meaningful in environmental, social concerns'
The Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project is more meaningful in terms of environment as well as social concerns, JICA Sri Lanka Chief Representative Harumi Ao said at a seminar on Upper Kotmale Hydro Power
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No fresh assurance from PM disappoints plant-hit villagers
Farmers of Gorakhpur, Badopal and Kajalheri villages, who were banking on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit for some announcement on rehabilitation package for the people displaced by the nuclear power
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding encroachment in the river front as well as river bed of river Morar in Gwalior, 13/01/2014
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pandit Hari Shankar Samadhiya Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 13/01/2014 regarding encroachment in the river front as well as river bed of river Morar
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Odisha to give bauxite to Vedanta
An Odisha minister today said that rejection of the mining proposal on Niyamgiri hills was 'unfortunate' and steps would be taken to alternatively source bauxite for Vedanta's refinery. "It is unfortunate that the UPA government is doing politics at the cost of development. We condemn the Centre for rejection of the mining proposal at Niyamgri hills," Steel and Mines minister R K Singh told reporters here.
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Odisha to give bauxite to Vedanta Resources
An Odisha minister today said that rejection of the mining proposal on Niyamgiri hills was 'unfortunate' and steps would be taken to alternatively source bauxite for Vedanta Resources' refinery. "It
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WFP provides food assistance to 0.972m KP displaced persons
World Food Programme (WFP) has supplied relief and food assistance to approximately 972,000 returnees and displaced persons in six districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province and four agencies of FATA