Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
About 5,000 residents of Shariakandi upazila have been compelled to move away from their homes recently as the erosions by the Jamuna River in the district took a serious turn in last 15 days. Sources in the district said several hundred homesteads and vast tract of crop-land at Kamalpur, Bohail, …
SINDHUPALCHOK: With recovery of 23 more bodies today, death toll in the landslide that struck Jure of Ramche VDC, Sindhupalchowk, on Saturday has reached 33. Among the bodies recovered today, 11 were of women, nine men and three children. Ten bodies were recovered on Saturday and Sunday. Sindhupalchowk CDO Gopal …
BHUBANESWAR: An AIG ranked officer of Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) visited Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) to inquire into the allegations of illegal mining activity within the tiger habitat. Ravi Kiran Gawekar, an AIG with National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), inspected Ghanshyam Mishra and Sons iron ore mines at …
Revised rules may dilute existing norms, fear civil rights bodies The World Bank is set to revise its safeguard policies for lending, which, if implemented, will ensure that the projects that the Bank is funding follow norms to protect environment and vulnerable communities. But, the civil rights organisations feel that …
This new report published by the the UNICEF Office of Research details both the accelerating global threats to children, as well as the urgent need to incorporate a comprehensive child rights approach, including directly involving children, in adaptation and mitigation efforts. It estimates that over the next decade, in South …
BHUBANESWAR: With the Centre giving the green signal to go ahead with the controversial Polavaram project, the state assembly constituted a house committee headed by speaker Niranjan Pujari to submit a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue. Besides the Speaker, the 25-member panel will have the government …
AP revenue officials have told Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu that according to new Land Acquisition Rehabilitation, Resettlement Act, acquisition of land, not only for construction of the new capital city, but also for any new industry, will be difficult. They said in addition to the lengthy process, …
Floods on different rivers in Kanchanpur district have displaced more than 600 families. An arrangement of accommodation to the displaced families has been made at nearby schools. According to the District Police Office, Kanchanpur, the families were displaced due to floods on Mahakali, Jogbudha and Dida rivers following the incessant …
A surge in the number of emaciated children arriving at a feeding centre in Leer, a muddy rebel-held town in South Sudan's oil-rich Unity State, is fuelling fears that the world's newest nation is on the brink of famine. Food stocks are running low across conflict-ravaged northern regions of the …
Leaders of several Adivasi (tribal) organizations and members of the Adivasi Sarpanches Organization (ASO) staged a dharna in front of the district collector’s office here and beset the road for a while on Wednesday in protest against the passage of the Polavaram Bill by Parliament to facilitate the transfer of …
Amid Parliament passing the controversial bill on Polavaram project, BJP government in Chhattisgarh is now facing a piquant situation in taking a politically correct stand on the project that would submerge vast tract of land and displace a large number of tribals in state's southern tip. "So far the state …
Khammam: Adivasis to be affected by the Polavaram irrigation project are planning a long term agitation. They have chalked out a strategy to highlight the issue at the national level by organising human chains, bandhs, rasta rokos, hunger strike and other forms of protests. They want to involve environment and …
Opposition Congress and BJP in Odisha today alleged that BJD government lacked adequate information on the controversial Polavaram project and demanded a white paper on it. "We are totally in the dark as to how the Polavaram project will affect the state. We do not exactly know how much land …
The controversial Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill that allows transfer of seven mandals from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh is just a step away from being enacted into a law with the Rajya Sabha on Monday giving its assent amid protests from TRS and Congress members from Telangana. The bill was …
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday suspended till further orders the operation of an administrative letter of the provincial government leasing out 6,300 acres of forest land in Badin and Sujawal districts to a private concern for farming. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Munib Akhtar also directed the …
Khammam: The Indirasagar-Polavaram Multi-purpose Irrigation Project took a new turn with the passing of the Bill in the Lok Sabha, which paves the way for the Polavaram project in AP by merging seven mandals in Khammam district with Seemandhra. The Centre will now have to float a company called Polavaram …
Debate in Rajya Sabha on Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2014. The Minister of Home Affairs Shri Raj Nath Singh informed Rajya Sabha that " Rajya Sabha had passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill on 20th February. The Rajya Sabha had passed the Bill without any amendments. The Bill received …
A bill to allow merging of some villages and mandals of Telangana with Seemandhra in a bid to deal with resettlement and rehabilitation of those displaced by the Polavaram power project was introduced in the Lok Sabha today amid a din. It the first Bill to be tabled in the …
