World migration report 2024
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
Migration
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Wildlife Responds Fast To Climate Change: Study
Plants and animals are responding up to three times faster to climate change than previously estimated, as wildlife shifts to cooler altitudes and latitudes, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists
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Gujarat’s growth story
If one were to use correct concepts and measurements, it will be seen that labour in Gujarat has actually significantly benefited from high economic growth and productivity gains. Annual Survey of Industries
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Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine
The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people
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Increase in Tropical Diseases Is Aided by Migration and Weak Economies
Worm infestations, food parasites, Chagas disease, sand fly-transmitted infections and other neglected tropical diseases usually found in Africa and Asia are turning up more often in Europe, according
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Punjab, Kerala and Karnataka most urbanised states
Punjab is now among the most urbanised states in India having more than 35 per cent of the population living in urban areas, says the Census 2011 data on Urban and Rural population released today.
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Census data shows numbers rising more in urban areas
Affirming the trend of migration of people from villages to big cities and towns, the provisional figures of Census 2011 reveal that for the first time, India has added more people in urban centres than in rural areas over a decade. Between 2001 and 2011, the number of people living in urban areas increased from 286 million to 377 million, a rise of 91 million.
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State of the worlds minorities and indigenous peoples 2011
<p>In the year that saw the establishment of a new UN agency for women, minority and indigenous women faced systematic violence, discrimination and marginalization. Both their identity as women and their membership of disadvantaged communities placed them at risk.
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Status of rural migrant workers in Chinese cities
The post-199os economic boom in China is largely associated with an increasing rural-urban divide and a decline in formal wage employment in the urban sector. The case of workers in the Shenzhen special
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Farm size and productivity: Understanding the strengths of smallholder and improving their livelihoods
During the 1960s and 1970s there was an intense debate on the observed inverse relationship between farm size and per hectare agricultural productivity in India. It was subsequently argued that the higher
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EU grants Rs3.5 crore to Mumbai University for research on diaspora, migration
European Union (EU) has made a grant of Rs 3.5 crore to the University of Mumbai. The fund will be used for the study of `Diaspora and Migration', under theMarie Curie Initial Training Network (ITNCoHab) project, Dr Rajpal Hande, Director, Board of College and University Development (BCUD), told PTI. The project will last for four years.