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 …
A leaked report of the United Nations panel has predicted severe impacts of global warming on food-grain production, fresh-water resources and human settlements across the globe with Asia facing the brunt of it. The document, second in series of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth assessment report which …
A new UN report suggests that climate change will displace hundreds of millions of people by the end of this century, increasing the risk of violent conflict and wiping trillions of dollars off the global economy. The second of three publications by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due …
The following draft of certain rules which the State Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by section 109 of The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (30 of 2013) is hereby published, as required by section 112 of …
ALLAHABAD: Tension mounted at Salaiya Kalan village of Meja Tehsil here on Thursday noon when agitated villagers came face to face with the district administration and started throwing stones on the police while opposing the work for constructing ash dyke by the authorities of Meja Urja Nigam Private Limited (MUNPL). …
Thirty-five families have been displaced by a landslide at Malladehi VDC in the district. Around a hundred families of villages like Danapur, Lamuni and Pelkhet have seen their lands eroded so far. According to reports, the perennial landslip started around 40 years ago. “I moved my house three times just …
The lion expert committee formed by the Supreme Court is likely to send a team to Kuno-Palpur in Madhya Pradesh to assess the sanctuary's preparedness for receiving lions from Gir, before taking a final decision on translocation of the big cats. Incidentally, a larger bench of the apex court has …
Hundreds of displaced families, farmers, unemployed youths and women organisations under the banner of Essar Land Losers and Displaced Welfare Society have warned to intensify their stir on February 22 if their 12 point charter of demands including compensation, job opportunity and rehabilitation package are not met. Sources said although …
Torrential rains and landslides have left at least 77 people dead and about 12,000 displaced in Burundi, the Burundi Red Cross said on Tuesday. Heavy rains on Sunday caused flooding in northern areas of the country, outside the capital, Bujumbura. Some 1,000 houses were destroyed and 84 people injured, said …
Government has sent out 146 notices to leading iron and steel makers which were allegedly involved into illegal mining. Minerals worth about Rs 60,000 crore were illegally mined in Odisha during 2008-2011, Justice MB Shah Commission of Inquiry said in its report tabled in Parliament today. The first part of …
Up in arms against land acquisition, farmers from nearly 27 villages, mostly tribal, of Manavar Tehsil of Dhar district on Thursday protested against the acquisition of their land for the proposed cement plant and raised issue related to legality of the project. Tribal alleged that even after submitting hundreds of …
Government has sent out 146 notices to leading iron and steel makers which were allegedly involved into illegal mining Shah Commission says Rs 60K cr lost to illegal mining in Odisha Minerals worth about Rs 60,000 crore were illegally mined in Odisha during 2008-2011, Justice MB Shah Commission of Inquiry …
The rehabilitation component of the Navi Mumbai Airport project has hit a roadblock as a major portion of the 57 hectares of land, meant to relocate project affected people (PAP), has been classified as no-development land, following a change in coastal area protection norms in 2011. The Navi Mumbai Airport …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday issued directions to authorities that no new industry be set up in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh's Sonebhadra district without requisite consent and clearances. A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar sought responses of the Centre and the …
The National Green Tribunal today issued directions to authorities that no new industry be set up in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh's Sonebhadra district without requisite consent and clearances. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar sought responses of the Centre and the governments of …
Residents of 18 villages located within the limits of the Darawat Dam project are resisting relocation without settlement of their claims, pressing the Water and Power Development Authority to ask the Sindh government to pay Rs200 million compensation to the affectees. According to official sources and documents reviewed by Dawn …
Families displaced by the Shuklaphanta Wild Life Preserve Area have declared that they were going to resort to a 'do or die' protest, as they have failed to get any compensation even after 12 years of their displacement. Accordingly, they will organize street protest, vehicular strike, sit-in and gherao, according …
The Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project is more meaningful in terms of environment as well as social concerns, JICA Sri Lanka Chief Representative Harumi Ao said at a seminar on Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project. The Institution of Engineers focused their attention on the Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project (UKHP) …
Farmers of Gorakhpur, Badopal and Kajalheri villages, who were banking on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit for some announcement on rehabilitation package for the people displaced by the nuclear power plant, were disappointed on Monday as he only repeated the compensation package already announced by the Haryana government. While they …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pandit Hari Shankar Samadhiya Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 13/01/2014 regarding encroachment in the river front as well as river bed of river Morar in Gwalior.
An Odisha minister today said that rejection of the mining proposal on Niyamgiri hills was 'unfortunate' and steps would be taken to alternatively source bauxite for Vedanta's refinery. "It is unfortunate that the UPA government is doing politics at the cost of development. We condemn the Centre for rejection of …
