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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Role of thermal power plants and coal mining in local area development and addressing regional imbalance: conditions and processes
Large number of thermal power plants are in pipeline in Vidarbha (Maharashtra). They are projected as local development using local resources, but local communities are protesting strongly as the benefits
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Speed up forest law implementation: Centre to states
Concerned that the Forests Rights Act was yet to bring benefits to the majority of the forest dwellers in the country, the Centre has told the state governments to expedite the implementation of the landmark
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Italy quake: 25 Lankans displaced
Around 25 Sri Lankans have been displaced following the earthquake that struck parts of Italy on May 20 around 4am, the Sri Lankan embassy in Italy said yesterday. The embassy said the displaced Sri
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U.N. Stalemate Risks Unraveling Durban Climate Deal: EU
A row over planning how to bind all emitters under a global climate pact from 2020 at U.N. climate talks in Germany is blocking negotiations to deepen nearer term emission cuts and raise cash to help poor
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Tribal women’s perspective on the Land Acquisition Bill
The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 views all social and economic forms of organisation in the country as a homogeneous whole, ignoring the differences within rural areas and
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Dont interfere with animal habitat: Wildlife expert
Capturing of animals is also illegal especially if the animal is a species figures in the schedules of Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and people who indulge in such publicity could also face action and arrests from the forest officials. Araujo’s observations come even as the Wildlife Institute of India declared that leopards (which also are animals that are “rescued”) is occupying an even greater area of Goa’s forests.
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SC refuses to expunge remarks against Medha Patkar’s NBA
The Supreme Court has refused to re-examine its judgement and expunge the adverse remarks made in it against Medha Patkar-led Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) on the issue of land acquisition for Omkareshwar
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20 years on, relief for left-out oustee families
Process on to give jobs to members of displaced families Jammu: After a struggle of nearly two decades, there is some good news for the displaced families of Ranjit Sagar Dam which had been left out from
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Battle against dams building up
Environment Ministry rejected forest clearance to Kalu dam in Thane district While irregularities were surfacing in irrigation projects around Mumbai in early April, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) rejected forest clearance to the Kalu dam in Murbad taluka of Thane district, which would have submerged around 1,000 hectares of forest land. Work started last October without permission from the MOEF, and Indavi Tulpule of the Shramik Mukti Sanghatana said hundreds of trees were chopped, in blatant violation of the Forest Conservation Act. The dam didn't have approvals from the MoEF, there was no Environmental Impact
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Erosion leaves seven families homeless
DIBRUGARH: Rapid erosion by Buri Dehing River at Tingrai under Duliajan police station in the last few days has left seven families homeless. The displaced are currently living along the edge of the Tingrai High School’s playground in makeshift shelters. The river waters continue to carry away huge chunks of land. A part of the school’s playground has also gone underwater. Meanwhile, people fear for the fate of the institution since the river is just a few meters away. Similarly, a temple is on the verge of being submerged.