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
PARADIP: The ongoing socio-economic survey for the Posco
To supplement developmental activities in Naxal-hit areas, the Central government is all set to invoke the provision of the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, 1996. This will enable it to directly intervene in tribal regions (Schedule V areas) directing states to grant complete rights to tribals over the minor forest produce (MFP) to address their livelihood issues.
A Rs 1,500 crore package for enhancing compensation for the kin of those who died and those debilitated in the Bhopal gas disaster was today finalised by a Group of Ministers (GoM).
A recent Supreme Court order allowing bamboo harvesting in sanctuaries could pose a threat to the endangered tigers, feels the government which has decided to seek reconsideration of the direction. A decision in this regard was taken at a recent meeting of the National Board of Wild Life (NBWL) chaired by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
Henry Foy Starving people in drought-stricken west Africa are being forced to eat leaves and collect grain from ant hills, say aid agencies, warning that 10 million people face starvation across the region. With food prices soaring and malnourished livestock dying, villagers were turning to any sources of food to stay alive, said Charles Bambara, Oxfam officer for the west African region.
The Delhi government finds itself in a piquant situation over the implementation of the Tribals and Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act.
BHUBANESWAR: The United Action Committee (UAC), a pro-Posco organisation of Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Badakujang gram panchayats in Jagatsinghpur district, on Friday demanded that displaced persons living in transit camps be allowed to return to their villages during the survey work.
In a bid to inspire confidence among the people to be affected by the 12 million tonne steel project of Posco in Jagatsinghpur district, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday said a
Raipur: The maize he grew on the small zig-zagged shaped patch of forest land was the only food for his family. But in 1998, the forest department picked up Bir Singh Markam, and along with 75 other men in his village in Bastar, and jailed him for illegally occupying forest land.
PARADIP: The survey work at the proposed Posco steel plant site, Gobindpur near here, resumed today, four days after anti-Posco agitators agreed to cooperate with the State Government on it. Eight teams comprising six members each entered Gobindpur gram panchayat area and conducted socio-economic and forest land survey without police protection.