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
For several years, Shanti Teresa Lakra stayed away from her newborn son, working with a primitive, endangered people on an island in one of India
Mumbai: Though the struggle of the tribal community to find its place in modern democracy is increasingly acquiring a Maoist flavour, their cause has been espoused by secular forces, too. One among them is renowned Gandhian Rajgopal PV, who was in the city to mobilise support for a march to highlight tribal issues.
Creating an ecology park at the edge of a bustling city and campaigning for better energy efficiency
To ensure the long overdue development of the extremist-infested districts across eight states, the Planning Commission will shortly unfurl an Integrated Action Plan (IAP) to expedite development in these parts.
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh is set to address a press conference on May 24 which will mark a year of UPA II in power. This will be the PM
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: This 60-year-old farmer used RTI to expose how Rakhial village administration clandestinely passed fake resolutions to allow illegal sand mining. The issue was an eye-opener for the state geology and mining department which is the regulatory body for sandmining activities in the state. The department immediately set up a fact-finding team to investigate the cases.
New Delhi: Child labourers may be declining in sheer numbers yet more children are at work in the Asia-Pacific region than the rest of the world combined.
New Delhi: Another slice of Delhi
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has estimated that Pakistan has 70 million children working as labourers. The last ILO-IPEC survey carried out in 1996 had put the child labour population in the country at 3.3 million.
KOCHI: Forests Minister Benoy Viswom has directed Forest officials to take necessary steps possible under the Forests Act to ensure basic facilities like drinking water, electricity and roads for tribals in the state. In an oral instruction given to Chief Wildlife Warden K K Sreevasthava, the Minister said the report on completed work should be submitted before the government in two months.