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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Social impact assessment: A tool for planning better resettlement
<p>Projects undertaken without the knowledge of their likely social impacts tend to produce unintended hardships for the local population.
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Implementing Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006 : A seminar report and recommendations
<p>A National seminar on the FRA was organised by the Council for Social Development on 26–27 April, 2010. Most of the participants reported that all of the key features of this legislation have been undermined by a combination of apathy and sabotage during the process of implementation.
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Highway To hell
Ask Chennai's fisherfolk and they will tell you that the road to hell is built on stilts. Various Central and state government agencies plan to construct three controversial expressways on stilts in the
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Delhi meet over Jharia rehab flats
Dhanbad, Feb.
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To save farmers, stop land acquisition, seed patents
To save the three
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Re-verification of 28 Bru families
Mizoram-Tripura border Mamit district administration officials were conducting re-verification of the 28 Bru families who returned on their own during January from North Tripura relief camps and were not enrolled in the Mizoram
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UN is assessing the flood damage in Sri Lanka
The United Nations said Tuesday that the recent wave of flooding in Sri Lanka had hit harder on the people who were still trying to recover from the last month's flooding. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sri Lank has reported that the magnitude and impact of a second wave of floods that hit Sri Lanka are worse than those which struck a few weeks ago. Accord
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Godda MP faces opposition over Punasi dam
Dumka, Feb.
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2 lakh displaced by Games still languish: Report
The day chief minister Sheila Dikshit completed 12 years of uninterrupted governance of Delhi, she also had to contend with a piece of news that was not really music to her ears. On Monday, a report on eviction of slum-dwellers and those residing on project sites during the Games revealed a tragic tale of how human rights were grossly violated.
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List of Posco oustees to be drawn anew
Troubles are far from over for global steel giant Posco to set up its Rs 54,000 crore steel plant in Jagatsinghpur in Orissa with tribals in the area divided over allowing the Korean company to enter.