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
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New film captures Arunachal tribe life
Nine time national award wining filmmaker Anu Malhotra has finished making another unique film on the indigenous Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, documenting their ritualistic sacrifice, the time
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Resettlement runs into rough weather
The Kerala Government's ambitious tribal land distribution project under the Tribal Resettlement Development Mission has run into rough weather. The Union Environment and Forest Ministry has refused
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Alarming rise of deprived urban children: report
The number of deprived urban children is alarmingly increasing in Assam and they are the victims of the kind of development the society foster and the socio-economic structure unfolding. The deprived
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' Withdraw tribal eviction order'
The Tamil Nadu Tribals Association ha urged the Union Environment Ministry to withdraw its orders directing eviction of tribals and others living on forestland and instead implement a 1990 decision
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One decade brings 1.4% growth for UP
Despite overall progress, per capita comsumptiom in the State of Uttar Pradesh (UP) has grown at only 1.4 per cent per annum in the 1990s. This has been stated by a World Bank report on the
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Bill likely to set up National commission for Children
Though the Finance Ministry is yet to give its nod for the proposed National Commission for Children, the Women and Child Development Ministry is confident that a Bill to set up such a statutory body
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Poor working conditions for kids: study
Nearly 55 per cent of the working children do so in "bad' work places with safe drinking water unavailable and 45 per cent have no access to toilet facilities. Some 40 per cent of these kids work for
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Let children show the way : Unicef
Children are the only hope if we want to change the divided, damaged and conflict-ridden world, according to the Unicef's State of the World's Children's Report 2003. The report which was released