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
LARGER COMPANIES ARE SPENDING MORE ON LOCAL AREA DEVELOPMENT A lot is being written about the controversy surrounding a joint venture bauxite mining project of Sterlite (a Vedanta group company) and the Orissa government. Replace Vedanta with any other mining company, take away bauxite and swap it with coal or iron ore or limestone, the story is the same.
NEW DELHI: A number of eminent persons and well-known activists have rallied to the support of writer Arundhati Roy, whose article on Operation Green Hunt has come under the scanner of the Chhattisgarh police.
PARLAKHEMUNDI: The protest against construction of
Patiala: Farmers are in a fix over the massive labour shortage ahead of the paddy sowing and transplantation season. They are finding it difficult to find labourers not only to work in their fields, but also as domestic help.
SALEM: It was a tall attempt by M. Sethupati. The youth from Manakkadu, doing his physiotherapy course at the Salem Government Medical College undertook an awareness campaign on environment here on Monday. He tied wooden sticks to his legs and had come to the Collectorate to submit a petition in which he voiced his concern against tree felling. Global warming
THE environment ministry has reconstituted the joint committee set up with the ministry of tribal affairs to assess the impact of Forest Rights Act on sustainable management of forest resources. Initially constituted in February, the joint committee and its terms of reference had to be reworked given protests by civil society organisations and activists.
Who are these Maoists who, according to the government, constitute the
The interests of both the State and the Maoists are served by reducing the complex and many-layered tragedy unfolding in the forests of Dantewada to a battle between Good and Evil. For the Maoists, the people are subordinate to the revolution; for the government, the people are a minor expendable detail in the mineral-rich territory they live in.
Vinobha K T, Mangalore, Apr 16, DHNS: For millennia, they lived in harmony with nature in the pristine forests of what is now the Kudremukh National Park, but in the recent years the innocent world of the Malekudiya tribals is in turmoil.
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.