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 …
Former Congress legislature party leader P Janardana Reddy (PJR)on Thursday announced in Andhra Pradesh that an ' indefinite agitation' by city citizens would start on May 6 and continue "until the state government brought Krishna waters to the city ".
The crusade against child labour in Hyderabad is poised to acquire more strength what with the International Labour Organisation(ILO) joining the bandwagon of NGOs and other associations working against the pernicious practice. The ILO, which had been working in rural Andhra Pradesh till now, is bringing its International Programme on …
Belgaum district in Karnataka has plunged into a crisis with very little water available at a time when the sun is at its hottest. While the State Government has assured the administration all necessary funds to tide over the crisis successfully. Following poor monsoons and scanty rainfall, hundreds of villages …
The World Bank has sanctioned Rs 700 crore loan to Karnataka for taking up watershed management projects in the State, according to Agriculture Minister B T Jayachandra. The Minister who inspected watershed projects in Kudligi taluk said the Government would make every effort to ensure that the soil quality is …
Bangalore city Development Minister T John on Tuesday said the Karnataka State Government was committed to protecting the Kumudvathy river and the catchment area of the T G Hally reservoir. John said the government was keenly monitoring the developments relating to the construction activities and all legals steps have been …
A nation that does not invest in its children is doomed to have an uncertain future. There is global consensus on this point. Yeet, few countries have really given the growth of what can be called the "child sector" the attention it deserves. In developed societies the neglect of this …
Ahead of the UN special session on children next month, the report "We the Children" finds that the condition of children across the World is dismal despite Governments agreeing to specific goals on the development of children at the World Summit on Children in 1990. The report provides a detailed …
Andhra Pradesh Union Tribal Welfare Minister Jal Oram on Sunday said the Central government had formulated a Rs 500 crore plan for the welfare of tribals.
Despite announcing education as the Fundamental Right of children in Indian Constitution, more than 25,000 children in Gurgaon are earning bread and butter for themselves and their families. According to a survey conducted jointly by Private and Government agency, the children who have not ever gone to the schools, either …
The ' City Beautiful', as Chandigarh is known as, today became a unique city when the Punjab Governor and Administrator of the Union Territory, J.F.R. Jacob, inaugurated a 24 hour free emergency phone service for children in need. the project is the outcome of the joint efforts of the Institute …
The plight of sircilla weavers, which shot into national limelight following a spate of suicides, finds an echo at Bhoodan Pochampally, the village in Andhra Pradesh that gained fame after legendary Vinobha Bhave's land movement. That the village is again coming into focus not because of the late leaders efforts, …
About 196 bonded labourers have been identified by a Bihar government survey at Bettiah in West Champaran district. District Magistrate Parmar Ravi Manubhai told that action would be taken against the employers and a compensation of Rs 20,000 given to each identified labourer.
The Rajasthan Government today announced its decision reviving the "Saathin" scheme which had given a new direction to the empowerment of rural women in the eighties and had been discontinued by the previous BJP Government. The scheme now would be extended to cover all the 32 districts in the state.
The findings of the census of children for 2002 bring little cheer to those in charge of bringing down the dropout rate in primary schools. Since the dropout rate is quite high in six districts of the integrated parts of Karnataka and is over 10 per cent amount the socially …
The tribals of Nawrangpur district in Orissa's interiors, who have been the victims of administrative neglect for long, have now decided to fight corruption to prevent plundering of public money and ensure implementation of various development schemes.
In the drought prone regions around Vellore in Tamil Nadu, beedi industry is the largest employer in the area. With no transparent calculations and only lump sum repayments being allowed, the system perpetuated child bondage. However the Tamil Nadu chapter of Indian Council of child welfare has initiated measures for …
The Hyderabad has initiated a "tribal welfare" scheme for the reclamation of tribal people about 7,00,000 of them Chief among them being Koyas, Gonds, Lambadas and Chenchus, according to a press release from the state Information Department.
A three day survey conducted by the Labour Officer and the Education Department in February revealed the presence of as many as 5,065 child labourers in the Shimoga district of Karnataka.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N chandrababu Naidu has said that the people will be entrusted with the task of safeguarding the water resources and exercising supervision on them.
The Magsaysay Award winner, Rajendra Singh, has termed the new National Water Policy, announced on the first of this month at the National Water Resource Council meeting in New Delhi, a "big let down" of the people of the country. "It is a victory for the IMF, the World Bank …
