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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Singapulikande people lose their homes
Singappulikanda, a hill at Pathakada in Pelmadulla has been declared a high-risk area prone to land slips and the occupants in 21 houses on its slopes evacuated by the Ratnapura District Disaster Management Centre. This step was taken by officials of the centre who inspected the hill after an earthslip last week.
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27 villages to be uprooted for Javer airport
The hopes of an international airport coming up near Javer have brightened with a team of Airport Authority of India having inspected the site a few days ago. However, for establishing this airport, land of 27 villages will have to acquired.
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Vedanta oustees call for fresh relief package
Bhubaneswar There
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Govt Go-Ahead to Jaitapur N-Park
Nuclear Regulatory Authority soon to check safety, higher compensation for displaced The Centre will go ahead with the 9,900 MW Jaitapur nuclear power park in Maharashtra.
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70 Bru families return to Mizoram
AIZAWL, April 20
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Dam-hit villagers in 6-hour dharna
Jamshedpur, April 15: More than 100 people due to be displaced in the wake of Chandil dam
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MOEF order on POSCO dated April 14, 2011
<p>This MoEF directive held back forest clearance to the POSCO project in Orissa. It has rejected state government’s assurance that there are no tribals in the area, where the 52,000 crore rupee steel-cum-captive power plant is to come up.</p>
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Windmills cant be displaced: Bombay high court
Windmills cannot be displaced as they are important for power generation, observed the Bombay high court while hearing a public interest litigation challenging installation of windmills in and around Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary. A division bench of justices Ranjana Desai and RJ Ketkar was hearing a PIL filed in September 2011 by Satara activist Nana Khamkar seeking preservation of the sanctuary, w
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Refugee repatriation to Mizoram begins
AGARTALA, April 12
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Fenced in: population growth rate
Calcutta, April 5: The rate of population growth in nine Bengal districts that share their borders with Bangladesh has come down in the past decade, a trend mainly attributed to an expansion in barbed-wire fencing and tighter vigil on illegal immigrants. The provisional data released by the Directorate of Census Operations in Calcutta show a decline in the population growth rate in these distri