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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Massive protest of Narmada dam oustees in Bhopal continues on second day
The huge protest in the name of the Narmada Jeevan Adhikar satyagraha and Upwaas launched yesterday by the oustees of the Maheshwar, Maan and Upper Beda dams at Bhopal yesterday, enters its second day
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Kaziranga Park flooded
Kaziranga: Flood waters have entered Kaziranga National Park forcing animals to take shelter on highlands and Park authorities are on alert to protect the wildlife from deluge and poachers. The flood waters have entered Burapahar and Bagori ranges of the world heritage site in upper Assam forcing the animals there to take shelter on high platforms built for them, the park sources said.
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Building dam - Meeting the concerns
Dams are being built in different sizes depending on the requirements and the height permissible at the particular site. The higher a dam, the larger the concerns for undesirable impacts that have to be
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A bend in the river
Do we not know the magnitude of the havoc rains wreak across India season after season? So why are we behaving like we were dealing with something alien and unpredictable? So now we have an infuriated
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Narmada dam affected from MP to launch protest from today
Will press for demands; land against land, adequate compensation and sufficient time for resettlement Thousands of villages from the five Narmada dam affected villages will launch a five-day Satyagraha in Bhopal under the aegis of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) to take on state authorities from June 28.
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Forest bank to address land acquisition woes
Exchange plan to make forest land easily available for irrigation projects The Water Resources department has hit upon a novel plan to solve the problem of acquiring forest lands for its projects: Grow
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The price of steel: human rights and forced evictions in the POSCO-India project
This report by the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) documents the human rights abuses being carried out to facilitate establishment of the POSCO project at Orissa and the associated illegal seizures of land which threaten to forcibly displace as many as 22,000 people in the state. It calls for a suspension of the POSCO-India project and a halt to the human rights abuses.
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‘We must wake up to the mining-politician nexus in our country which is wreaking havoc in our politics’
On 25 May, the ghastly Naxal attack on a convoy of Congress leaders in Darbha, Chhattisgarh, jolted political leaders across the spectrum. Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh — who has been
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Uttarakhand's 'best' hydel resettlement policy
Uttarakhand today announced its first resettlement and rehabilitation policy for hydel projects. It claimed the policy was the best in the country. At a meeting of the Cabinet here, presided by Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna, the government decided it would provide Rs 2 lakh a hectare for the development of the fallow compensatory land, which is given in lieu of the land acquired.
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Orissa adopts Central law to empower tribals
Bhubaneswar : Seventeen years after Parliament passed the PESA Act that empowers tribal society to take control of their own resources, the Orissa government has finally decided to make necessary changes