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 and a major increase in international remittances. The report highlights that international migration remains a driver of human development and economic growth, highlighted …
'Civilisation' threatens the very existence of Jarawas. In 1989, a thin road cut through the solitary world of the Jarawa tribe of Andaman islands, protected through ages by a thick cover of the tropical forests. The road brought 'civilisation' into their life, changing it forever.
The Punjab Government has decided to abolish the well-publicised Shagun scheme started by the previous government. Giving this information while talking to newsmen here today the Minister for Social Security, Mr Santokh Chaudhary, said the scheme was not pragmatic. Thousands of applications were pending at the subdivisional level due to …
The scheme for the construction of mini dams in the Kandi area has been adversely affected because of the shortage of funds. The state government had prepared a scheme to construct a chain of 31 mini dams on various choes/khuds in the Kandi area to store rain water for irrigation …
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, said he would implement every decision taken in the interest of the state at the all-party meeting convened by him on the issue of SYL canal. He asked all Opposition parties in the state to attend this crucial meeting as according to …
In a move dubbed as the first of its kind, the Labour Commission has identified 37 children catering to different establishments in and around the Chennai city. However, the first strike proved inefective as only six of them expressed their willingness to be rescued and rehabilitated. Labour Commissionerate officials said …
It's time for the mercury mark to drop and the pollution level to rise. The half hearted bandh may have provided a temporary respite from the smokescreen that clouds overcrowded Calcutta on weekdays, but that is little consolation for a gasping city. Figures released by the West Bengal Pollution Control …
Nothing seems to have changed in Digvijay Singh-ruled Madhya Pradesh. This is the only lesson that can be drawn from the bizarre incidents that keep recurring in this part of the country. Two women were auctioned in a tribal panchayat during the second Bhil conference at Mandwa village in Khandwa …
The Chhattisgarh Government approved of a special package for development of the tribal dominated Bastar region. The package, worth several hundred crores, includes setting up of a university at Jagdalpur from the next academic session, introduction of 'ashrams' for primary education and upgrading health services besides pronouncing Bastar as the …
After the grand success of operation 'Vishwas' Madhya PRadesh Police have decided to launch operation 'Hamdard' for knowing the tribals closely. This month long programme would be launched from January 10 this year.
No water supply project will be showcased at the Global Investor Meet (GIM), scheduled to held here on January 18 and 19, but the Periyar Project (Cochin Industrial Water Supply Scheme) will be taken up at a later stage, Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty said here on Sunday. Speaking at …
It was an attempt to examine the facts behind the staggering figure of 13,000 dowry-related deaths recorded in the years 1998-99 in India. The second day today of the four-day international conference on "Dowry, bride-burning and son preference" at the International Youth Centre on Teen Murti Marg in the Chanakyapuri …
Dileep Singh Bhuria, Chairman of 2nd Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes Commission, government of India, has stressed the need for protection of the interests of tribals, saying that this has been the traditional right of tribals since time immemorial.
Background of the study is the multi-State India Eco-development Project sponsored by IDA/GEF at the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala, one of the seven Protected Areas (PAs) with the central objective of conserving biodiversity in and around PAs over 5 years (1996-97 to 2000-2001). The Village Eco Development Component (VEC) …
Panchayati Raj institutions are collapsing in Chhattisgarh, thanks to the outlawed People's War Group's thirst for power and the non-compliance of the two-child norm stipulated by the government. Panchayat offices are emptying out due to en masse resignations, owing to pressure from the PWG, and retrenchments by the government on …
The Tumkur district is all set to host Bangalore region's convention of Stree Shakti self help groups on Sept 2. Around 1.5 lakh Stree Shakti SHG members from Tumkur, Bangalore, Kolar, Mandya, Hassan, Chitradurga and Davanagere district are expected to take part in the event which marks three years of …
The declining population of Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) it seems that nobady's concern in Jharkhand, although the State was formed for the welfare of the people of the region, especially for the tribals. The tribals constitute 27 per cent of the total 27 million population of the State. There are …
The Centre is working on a comprehensive policy for resettlement and rehabilitation of millions of tribals across the country, Minister for Tribal Affairs Jual Oram said here on Thursday while addressing the three-day fourth editors' conference on social sector issue. "A comprehensive policy for resettlement and rehabilitation of tribals is …
The Task Force on inter-linking of rivers, headed by former Power Minister Suresh Prabhu, on Thursday decided to take up the Ken-Betwa link (involving Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh) and Prabati-Kalisindh-Chambal link (involving Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) by the year end. A meeting of the Task Force also decided to …
Even as allegations of yet another starvation death surfaced in Kalahandi, Orissa's perennial hunger zone, 50 migrant labourers from the neighbouring Bolangir district, equally notorious for poverty and backwardness, were reportedly rescued from a brick kiln in Andhra Pradesh. The kiln owner Yusuf Khan and a contractor are said to …
The illegal acquisition of land in the Tribal Belt and Block areas by encroachers under Jonai sub-division in Dhemaji district of Assam has become a major threat for the bonafide local people. The illegal distribution of land pattas to the non-bonafide people residing under the Tribal Belts and Blocks is …
