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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Bangla migrants setting up houses inside national park
The Orang National Park in northern Assam, believed to have about two dozen tigers, is under threat from encroachers. The encroachers have been particularly targeting the south-eastern portion of the park with the authorities resorting to lathicharge and lobbing of teargas shells to drive them away.
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Climate refugees: Implications for India
There is as yet no agreement on the status of people displaced by climate change and the term
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Black bucks migrating to Rajasthan
Abohar, May 9 An acute reduction of habitat coupled with unchecked menace of killer stray dogs has triggered off an
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Wanted: 2.4 million nurses, and thats just in India
In every country, rich or poor, the story is the same. There are not enough nurses. The developed world fills its vacancies by enticing nurses from other countries, while developing countries are unable to compete with better pay, better professional development and the lure of excitement offered elsewhere.
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Employment and unemployment situation in India 2007-08
In this round, the scope of the survey on employment and unemployment was enhanced with the collection of information on migration particulars of the households, of the household
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Urban migrants in India risk obesity, diabetes: Report
HONG KONG: People who move from villages to cities to work are more likely to end up obese and suffer from diabetes compared to their siblings who remain behind, a large study in India has found. The study, involving 6,510 participants from north, central and south India, found that half of the migrants had packed on an additional 14 pounds (6-7 kg) by the tenth year of their relocation.
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The effect of rural-to-urban migration on obesity and diabetes in India: A cross-sectional study
India, like the rest of the world, is experiencing an epidemic of diabetes, a chronic disease characterized by dangerous levels of sugar in the blood that cause cardiovascular and kidney disease, which lower life expectancy. The prevalence of diabetes (the proportion of the population with diabetes) has been increasing steadily in India over recent decades, particularly in urban areas.
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Addressing the humanitarian challenges of climate change: regional and national perspectives
Humanitarian actors are confronted with the impacts of climate change on a daily basis. This is reflected in this report. The report documents projects by the key organisations involved in humanitarian activities - UN and intergovernmental organisations, NGOs and Red Cross Red Crescent - that contribute to climate change adaptation.
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Begging in rural India and Bangladesh
This paper makes a case for seeing poor people