Syria at War: Eight Years On
<p>By the end of the eighth year of conflict in Syria, economic losses had exceeded an estimated $442 billion. However huge, this number alone does not epitomize the suffering of a population among which
Refugees
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South Asia
Cruel punishment: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Refugee Coordination Unit (RCU) recently stopped food distribution to 3,142 refugees in Bhutans' Jhapa refugee
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BANGLADESH
The repatriation of thousands of Bangladeshi tribal refugees from northeast India is almost complete, officials said. They said 56,520 refugees, including 11,000 families, have returned to the
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Bringing in... devastation
Refugee movements the world over have had an unfortunate aftermath: the degradation of environment. The UN <font class="UCASE">hcr </font> has now come out with a set of guidelines on how best to deal with transboundary peregrinations
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A LEASE OF LIFE
In a momentous judgement last month, the Supreme Court directed the Arunachal Pradesh government to ensure the safety of the Chakma and Hajong tribals in the state and to thwart any
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Barely surviving
With about 300 sq km almost stripped bare of forest cover, Africa's first national park battles for survival
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A sanctuary becomes a battlefield
Intelligence agencies of the Assam government have alleged that the 2,387 sq km Manas Tiger Reserve, listed by the UNESCO as a World Heritage site, has become a sanctuary for about 200 Bodo
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Draining causes exodus
THE IRAQI government's campaign to drain the Howeiza Marsh in the south to flush out Shiite rebels has prompted an exodus: Every day for the past three months, about 25 refugees have fled across the
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South Asia
Bangladesh gets nuke plant: On May 13, Bangladesh and Russia signed a deal to install a nuclear power plant with an electricity generation capacity of 600-1,000 megawatt (mw). The plant will be set up at Roopour, 200 km from Dhaka. The country generates 3,300 mw power and is facing a shortfall of 1,500 mw a day. Pak offers comfort to refugees: Cool drinking water is being
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Trouble in Tripura
Restrictions on jhum cultivation, large scale immigration and timber smuggling have made Tripura an environmentally poor state
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Colombian refugees demand compensation for destroyed coca crops
The tussle on the Colombia-Ecuador border over the spraying of herbicide by Colombia has taken a new turn. The spraying, done to eradicate coca plantations, had driven many Colombians to take