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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Revised land acquisition bill proposed to be introduced in LS
The revised Land Acquisition Bill incorporating recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee is proposed to be introduced in Lok Sabha for its consideration, the Rural Development Ministry said
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Landslip: loss, rehabilitation estimated at Rs.200 crore
A day after landslips and flash floods triggered by heavy rain created havoc in Kozhikode, the district administration prepared a preliminary report on Wednesday pegging the total loss and cost of rehabilitation at Rs.200 crore even as over 200 affected people are lodged in a local school and parish hall in the calamity-hit region. As many as 130 calamity-hit people are accommodated at the Anakkampoyil parish hall in Thiruvambadi while the Vimala Upper Primary School at neighbouring Manjuvayal area houses another 86 persons.
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Review gauchar land policy: HC to govt
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court suggested that the state government review its policy regarding gauchar land and its allocation, and asks it to evolve a “workable and practicable” policy. The court said so with observation that it should revisit all resolutions passed time to time particularly if the government cannot adhere to its own policy. This suggestion came from the bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala, which dismissed a PIL filed by villagers from Banaskantha district.
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Revised land acquisition bill proposed to be introduced in LS
Adequate provisions have been made in the proposed LARR Bill 2011 to protect the rights of farmers on land The revised land acquisition bill incorporating recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee is proposed to be introduced in Lok Sabha for its consideration, the Rural Development Ministry said today. In written reply to a question, Minister of State for Rural Development Sisir Kumar Adhikari said, "Based on the recommendation of the Standing Committee or otherwise the amendments to the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Bill are proposed to be introduced in the Lok Sabha for its consideration."
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Climate change, water stress, conflict and migration
This collection of papers was presented at a conference on linkages between climate change, water, conflict and migration, held in September 2011 at The Hague, in the Netherlands, where the discussion
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Protesting publics in Indian cities - The 2006 sealing drive and Delhi’s traders
The bazaar or intermediate classes have remained outside the predominant research imagination on urban change. Delhi's wholesale and retail traders, the primary subjects of this paper, are a subset of
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Tourism banned in tiger reserves
In order to give “inviolate space” to tigers for their undisturbed breeding, the Supreme Court on Tuesday banned all forms of tourism in national tiger reserves with immediate effect, warning states it would take strict action, including imposing fines, if this order was not implemented in letter and spirit. A bench of Justices Swatanter Kumar and F.M. Ibrahim Kalifulla passed an interim ban order on a note placed on record by amicus curiae Raj Panjwani highlighting how the “inviolate space” of 800-1,200 sq km recommended by the Wildlife Institute of India and National Board of Wildlife for peaceful breeding by a group of 20 tigress and survival of young cubs was disturbed due to tourism in tiger reserves.
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Farmers oppose Karad airport expansion
Even as the Maharasthra State budget has provided for an airport in Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan’s hometown of Karad in Satara district, more than 4,000 farmers from the region are opposing it. While land acquisition for the project is yet to begin, farmers have warned of an agitation on August 2, demanding that the plan be scrapped. In March this year, the State budget allocated Rs. 438 crore for six airport projects across the State, including the expansion of the Karad airstrip into a full fledged airport.
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Swimming against the tide - Coastal communities and corporate plunder in Kutch
This article is based on a visit to Mundra taluka of Kutch district, Gujarat in January 2011 to understand first hand the plunder of common property resources. It focuses on the Mundra Port and special
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600 Animals Dead 1,000 Displaced
Ironically, flooding is vital for Kaziranga’s ecology. But as governments dither on an integrated river management plan, a sediment-laden Brahmaputra is killing too many too often. Jay Mazoomdaar and Ratnadip