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
If you don’t act now, Delhi will be starved of electricity and water in the coming years – this was the dire warning given by a group of village women, who have come to Delhi from remote areas of Uttarakhand.
Bhubaneswar: The National Sample Survey (NSS) set up in 1950 by the Centre to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods, will start its 69th round from July 1. The survey will continue
A Forest Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has stated that the state government project to build a dam on river Kalu in Thane district should be scrapped. The Bombay high
A chat and books persuade parents in Shravasti to not marry off young girls. Read More : http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/children-once-again
GUWAHATI, June 12 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today launched Chief Minister’s Vision for Women & Children 2016 highlighting 16 goals, including bringing down of infant and maternal mortality rates, at
A mobile- and internet-based initiative, to be launched in Bangalore before being taken to other cities, will try and tap the potential of such new-age communication tools to create civic change. Called
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday unveiled a Vision for Women and Children, 2016 setting a target of bringing down the State’s alarming infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality (MMR) rate even below the national average. “Assam may have achieved the sixth highest rate of improvement in economic growth among all states during 2001-2010. But when it comes to social indicators we are still lagging behind though we have brought about certain significant improvements.
Of the 50 districts in the country where Aadhaar will be implemented, five are from Maharashtra. Though enrolments are currently voluntary, once Aadhaar comes into force, it will be mandatory to quote
A Group of Ministers (GoM) has pitched for relaxing the Forest Rights Act (FRA) norms for expeditious setting up of power transmission lines, a move to spare project developers from seeking mandatory concurrence
One striking feature of demographic changes in the state reflected in Census 2011 data is the sharp rise in the number of “census towns” from 93 in 2001 to 228 in 2011, indicating that people from rural