Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
‘Cos, both PSUs & private, have neither operated in an environmentally sustainable manner, nor socially beneficial manner’ “Mining only leads to greater poverty,” Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of Rural Development explained to the tribals of Lanjigarh, Odisha at the foothills of the Niyamgiri hills. This is the union minister's first …
Congress legislator Ravinder Sharma opposed the acquisition of land belonging to 1965 and 1971 refugees for the third phase of the Industrial Growth Centre (IGC), Samba. The House Committee of the Legislative Council today reviewed the status of acquisition of land of the IGC, Samba. Sources said while reviewing the …
NCP ministers warn CM against opening prime land for real estate development NCP vehemently opposed the new Maharashtra industrial policy Wednesday, saying it was an opportunity for big developers to grab land at a throwaway price on the excuse of promoting industry. At a cabinet meeting that okayed the policy, …
To meet surging domestic energy demand, provide power to the largest population in the world that lacks electricity (> 400 million people), and reduce rapidly growing CO2 emissions, the Government of India (GOI) has embarked on a fast-track dam-building program.
Championing the cause of all coal bearing states, which have been demanding allocation of a portion of the power produced by the thermal projects coming up their respective states free of cost, the Odisha government has urged the Planning Commission to take a call on the issue at the earliest. …
Has the regional displacement widened in the post-reform period? This study attempts to probe into this by analysing growth rates of aggregate and sectoral domestic product of major states in the pre (1980s) and post-reform (1990s) decades. Our results indicate that while the growth rate of gross domestic product has …
AnRak Aluminium is moving ahead with the bauxite mining project in Makavarapalem in Visakhapatnam district despite the local opposition warns this analysis in the Economic and Political Weekly with focus on social and environment impact of the project. A bauxite/aluminium project very similar to the Vedanta project in Odisha is …
Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) on Monday asked promoters of upcoming Maheshwar power project in Madhya Pradesh to comply with the report of Environment Ministry and rehabilitate displaced people before going ahead with the construction work of the project. While talking to media persons here on Monday, NBA leader Alok Agarwal …
Divorce not only proves disastrous for children, but is also bad for the environment and contributes to global warming. Sounds ridiculous? Well, it’s not going by recent research findings. The Capital’s Additional District and Sessions Judge, Poonam A. Bamba says that this is true after her detailed research on this …
Stating in unequivocal terms that no forest conservation activity would be possible without community participation, over 19 organisations representing traditional forest dwellers and other aborigines living within the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR) met in Gudalur near Ootty on Saturday and adopted a declaration terming the proposed tiger reserves in Wayanad …
In a turnaround, the state forest department has decided to prepare eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) proposals around protected areas (PAs) as per the 10km norm, deciding on case-by-case basis and depending on site-specific situations and not as per the Supreme Court's centrally empowered committee (CEC) recommendation. In September, the CEC recommended …
The Kerala Assembly has adopted a substantive motion voicing concern over several recommendations of the Madhav Gadgil panel on Western Ghats conservation and wants the Centre to hold wider consultations with the States concerned before implementation. The motion, approved unanimously by the House after a three-hour debate last night, wants …
Torrential rains continued to lash Sri Lanka unabated raising the death toll from floods and landslides to 25 and leaving over 18,000 people homeless in most parts of the country. The latest figures from the Disaster Management Center reported that 13 people are still missing and 33 people have been …
‘Governments must protect interest of producer, consumer’ The controversy regarding India’s permission to allow foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and growing “land grab” in Africa by multinational corporations are being closely watched globally by agriculture experts, researchers and donors. At a workshop here on ‘Supporting Policy Research to Inform …
Biometric cards to be issued to fishermen in the area The government will not declare a ban on fishing in the area around the LNG terminal at Puthuvypeen as part of security measures, Minister for Fisheries K. Babu has said. Replying to a calling attention motion moved by S.Sharma in …
The Land Acquisition Bill, which strengthens landowners’ rights during acquisition for development, has finally received the nod of the Union Cabinet, and is likely to be introduced in Parliament during the final week of the winter session. The final version of The Right to Fair Compensation, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Transparency …
Farmers, whose lands have been acquired for the proposed nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad, have sought hiked compensation for their lands. A group of farmers that has been continuing its agitation despite having accepted compensation cheques from the government, today met the Deputy Commissioner ML Kaushik and demanded …
Despite Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s pro-tribal image, over 200 tribal families displaced in 1998 to pave way for construction of Golden Quadrilateral National Highway are left in the lurch. They are yet to be rehabilitated as promised by the district administration. Over 500 tribals, including children, who had migrated from …
Environmental and weather-related disasters caused by climate change would displace more than 95.72 million people in Bangladesh by 2040, warned a study giving an alarming scenario of climate-induced internal migration. The study conducted by Unnayan Onneshan said the situation was likely to grow worse as climatic disorders exacerbate such problems. …
How do mass slum resettlement programmes in expanding megacities contribute to the reproduction of urban poverty? Chennai's premier resettlement colony, Kannagi Nagar, housing slum-dwellers evicted from the city since 2000 has integrated itself into the industrial, commercial and software economies of the information technology corridor on unfavourable terms, swelling the …
