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 …
In an attempt to bring about improvement in the nutrition and health level of children and women, as many as 66 new child development projects are being initiated in Rajasthan under the third phase of the integrated Child Development Service.
The recent visit of King Gynendra Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal to India culminated in the signing of two Letters of Understanding on mutual cooperation - in the areas of Tourism and Water Resources -between the two countries Chambers of Commerce. With nearly 6000 rivers and streams flowing from Nepal …
A writ petition on behalf of 20 lakh Cauvery delta farmers and agricultural labourers was today filed in the Supreme Court to direct Karnataka to release water to Tamil Nadu as per the interim orders of the Cauvery Tribunal To save the 'Kuruvai' crop. It comes up for hearing on …
The Union Cabinet today accepted the report of the second labour commission and indicated that it would be available in Parliament tomorrow. But it deferred a discussion on the bifurcation of the railway zones.
Janshala, a special focus programme launched in 1998 for the children of the urban poor in Rajasthan, has received kudos from the UN community. First of its kind for the deprived children in cities and also the first joint attempt of the UN agencies to help achieve universal elementary education, …
The life of the rautes, the only surviving hunter gatherer tribe in the country, has been endangered due to lack of education and awareness in the community.
Haryana Government has earmarked over Rs 98.18 crore for the implementation of various women and child development schemes during the current financial year.
There are scored of Bio-diesel plants abroad. But attempts to promote the fuel in the country have not been converted into any policy decision yet. Experiments are on even here in the Capital and in the near future this may be the cleanest fuel of them all. Veggie vans have …
The top priority of Madhya Pradesh Women Congress is to work for the progress of women specially of the rural and for this State Women congress committee would working in 5 point programme to ensure all round development of women living in the state.
The Centre has asked the states to prepare pollution control plans for nearly a dozen 'dirty' cities by August 20. Plans for a second group of cities are to be readied by October-end. As for Delhi, the petroleum ministry says the CNG queues will continue, at least till November. The …
For Bablu and several others, belonging to Birhor in Jharkhand, at Salgawan, timely medical help has been a major problem along with several others. Birhor - a nomadic, food gathering and hunting tribe - can be found mostly in the forests of Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Girisih, Gumla and Lohardaga districts of …
The Tamil Nadu state government should establish a department for child welfare and create a permanent fund to rehabilitate child labourers. This was the opinion of senior officials in the police and labour departments, representatives from over 20 NGOs and hotel owners associations, human right activists and advocates who took …
The State Government would soon come out with a legislation to ensure that no harm was caused to the biodiversity of Karnataka in the wake of rapid strides in biotechnology. Minister of State for Information Technology and Tourism Minster D B Inamdar said.
It is not totally wrong when people say Chhattisgarh lives several centuries simultaneously. If the Government is talking in terms of developing the state as the most happening place in the coming years, there is no denying the fact that there are regions like Abhujmad where the most primitive tribal …
Thirteen year old Jabu Lal Chaudhary crushes stones. Though physically handicapped, he does it every day normally from dawn to dusk to make ends meet. Thousands of children who are engaged in stone crushing at various quarries around the country. Stone crushing is considered as one of the most hazardous …
Kerala will be declared as the first 'child labour free State' in the country this year. Labour Minister Babu Divakaran told the State Assembly on Monday.
Dissemination Programme of Evaluation Report on 'Towards the Elimination of Child labour in selected Bricks Kilns and Stone Quarries of Bhaktapur and Dhading districts' was organised by Child Development Society (CDS) with the help of international organisations, International labour Organisation (ILO) and International Programme on Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC).
The International Labour Office (ILO) welcomed the establishment of a new initiative to fight child labour and adult forced labour in cocoa cultivation and processing.
Speakers at a seminar in Karachi said though there were various laws against child labour in the country, more than 3.3 million children were working in different fields. At the seminar on Child Labour, organized jointly by the National Institute of Labour Administration and Training (NILAT) and the National Progressive …
Gujarat's eastern tribal belt, where over 17 per cent of the state's Adivasis live, has suddenly come under the direct scanner of the Raj Bhavan. Surprisingly, for the first time since he took over as governor of Gujarat three years ago, Sunder Singh Bhandari decided to exercise his constitutional right …
