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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Free cell phones to lure Bihari workers
Press Trust Of India / New Delhi October 03, 2008, 0:59 IST Agriculturists in Punjab seem to be struggling this season to hire migrant farm workers from Bihar and are believed to be using novel ways, like offering free cell phones, to lure them.
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Climate Change and Migration: Improving Methodologies to Estimate Flows
Despite the growing awareness of the nexus between climate change and migration the subject has not been explored empirically in a way that generates conclusive results.
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Migration and Climate
This short book analyzes the prospect of large-scale forced migration as a result of climate change and attempts to estimate the developmental impact of potentially millions of people displaced by coastal flooding, extreme weather events and agricultural disruption.
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Denial of the rural
85 per cent urban population will be a disaster A tendency has been gaining ground in some influential circles lately that India
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Evacuees wait for relief
Nellore, Sept. 8: Poor and downtrodden people living in Nelatoor, Krishnapatnam, Sembunithopu, Nakkalamitta and Ayyavarikandriga in Muthhukur mandal are struggling for survival after 4,500 acre land in the area was handed over to Reliance Power and AP Genco for setting up thermal power plants. While alternative arrangements are being made to shift people from small habitations like Nakkalamitta, Ayyavarikandriga and Sembunithopu in the wake of acquisition of villages apart from lands, there is no word from authorities with regard to major villages like Nelatoor and Krishnapatnam.
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Spl KNP teams deployed for monitoring migrating animals
JORHAT, Sept 5
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The changing villager
India is truly an amazing place: it is both a graveyard of concepts that flourish happily elsewhere, and a breeding ground for those that survive only in our conditions. Terms such as class, status, nation state, and community have already undergone significant modifications in the Indian setting.
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Solve agricultural issues to control migration: Sadashiva
DH New Service, Chikmagalur: "The migration of rural youth to the cities can be controlled by solving the problems associated with agriculture. Discussions must be held in this regard to initiate actions at the earliest," said State High Court retired chief justice A J Sadashiva.
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Rapid shifts in plant distribution with recent climate change
The speed of the plant movement is alarming. The plant death is striking, and occurred in most species. The latest finding provide a glimpse of what could happen to the world's vegetation as the Earth faces inevitable global warming and results appear in journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, August 19, 2008,vol.105,no. 33,11823
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Superheroes
A window washer dressed as spiderman scales a building. A pizza delivery man wearing superman garb rides a bike with pies in the basket. A nanny clad as catwoman attends to children. Behind the humour of these photographs by Mexican artist lie real life struggles. The photographs on show at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago depict real immigrant workers in their everyday jobs.