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
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
BHUBANESWAR: The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), a forum working for elimination of discrimination based on caste, today claimed that dalits would be the most hit by the Posco Steel Project. A fact-finding team of NCDHR which visited proposed project site at Dhinkia and Govindpur gram panchayats and met the local inhabitants and activists fighting the steel plant. Addressing
The Punjab government on Monday claimed the state has been able to improve its sex ratio much ahead of neighbouring Haryana due to a series of gender-sensitive policies launched by the SAD-BJP government during the last four years. According to an official spokesman, the provisional figures of 2011 Census reflect the steep decline in sex ratio throughout the country
While mass predilections in Bihar are still veering towards the male child, the Nitish Kumar government will be pleased with the provisional Census 2011 data for the State, which has indicated a 20 per cent jump in the State's female literacy rate. As per the report, literacy rates for women in Bihar have soared from 33.12 per cent in 2001 to 53.33 per cent this census year. The State's over
As per provisional census 2011 report, women have outnumbered the men with registering ratio more than one thousand against men in four tribal districts of State. It means the women in maximum number legged behind the men folk in these districts. Not only this, literacy rate has also scaled up considerably.
AGARTALA, April 12
Gautam Budh Nagar has registered all round progress on different fronts during the past 10 years, stated the latest census report. Literacy has jumped from 56.83 per cent in 2001 to 82.2 per cent in 2011.
Landlessness & Illiteracy Come With Social Identity, Finds Survey Subodh Ghildiyal | TNN New Delhi: Scheduled Castes and Tribes constitute half of the total
PARADIP: Doubts are being raised by locals over functioning of the 58 Integrated Child Development Scheme centres that were opened in the district earlier this week.
Concerned over the sharp decline in the child sex ratio as reflected in the provisional Census figures, the Centre on Saturday reconstituted the Central Supervisory Board set up under the Pre-conception & Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 (PC & PNDT Act). Chaired by the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and co-chaired by the Minister of Women and Child Development, the Board
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa's literacy rate might have grown exponentially in the last decade to touch 73.45 per cent, almost on par with the National average of 74.04, but the Naxal hotbeds of the State continue to wallow in illiteracy. Literacy rate in the Maoist-infested districts of Malkangiri, Koraput and Nabarangpur still hover below 50 per cent while Rayagada and Gajapati districts have just man