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 …
Floods triggered by heavy rains over the past week and huge discharge of water from Hirakud dam have killed at least 16 people in Orissa and displaced thousands, an official said Sunday. There were reports of six people being swept away in Nayagarh and Bargarh districts but their dead bodies …
Up to 2.5 million children have been affected by severe monsoon floods in southern Pakistan – and with many still recovering from the worst floods in the country’s history just a year ago, UNICEF says more help must reach them fast before the situation worsens. In a statement release here …
Read text of the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 introduced in the Lok Sabha today by rural development minister Jairam Ramesh. It will replace Land Acquisition Act 1894. A Bill to ensure a humane, participatory, informed consultative and transparent process for land acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential …
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Monday cleared the land acquisition bill which proposes to give a much better deal, including higher compensation, to landowners, and sets the stage for a radical overhaul of the 1894 Act. The proposed law also aims to give Rahul Gandhi a potent talking point …
Guwahati, the sprawling million plus city of north eastern India has grown at the cost of vital wetlands. While the rich legally bought the water-bodies, the poor ‘illegally’ encroached on them. With major storm water basins in the city disappearing, every monsoon, Guwahati reels under flashfloods. The June 22 police …
The residents of Sardar Sarovar Dam Project affected villages in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh have been deprived of all major programmes initiated by the State Government. Surprisingly, schemes like the PDS, ICDS, MDM, and NREGS are completely dysfunctional in the villages. There is widespread and unchecked corruption in the …
The tribal and ecological history of India has been the history of forced transformation of the natural commons into private property engineered under both the colonial and post colonial state policy. In the following period of structural adjustment programme during and after the 1990s the state has opened the public …
The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) is a protracted struggle of more than three decades against large dams. While the movement has been a witness to various highs and lows, some key lessons nevertheless can be deducted by analysing its overall successes and failures. Arguments presented in this article are based …
The growth of militant left radicalism, known as the Naxalite movement in official documents and civil society discussions, has acquired considerable prominence in the public policy discourse, media coverage and interaction with social scientists. The subject has also been deliberated upon in seminars across the country. The Government policy to …
Singrauli: The Coal Curse a report was released by retired Justice Suresh Hosbet, a member of a Fact Finding team that visited the area in July this year. The report documented the impacts of unbridled coal mining and thermal power plants on the environment and the people of the region. …
WHO has released this report on gender, climate change and health, which is based on the recognition that the effects of climate on human society, and our ability to mitigate and adapt to them, are mediated by social factors, including gender. Launched at a side event during the Panama Climate …
Climate change is a new driver of human migration, and is expected by many to dwarf all other factors in its impact. But while there is growing concern about climate change, far less agreement exists about what kinds of effects will be felt where, by whom, and precisely when. Human …
Bhubaneswar: Speaker Pradeep Kumar Amat’s efforts to end the stalemate over the controversial Sindol Hydro-Power Project issue has run into rough weather with the opposition Congress and the BJP refusing to be part of the House committee formed on a motion tabled by the Odisha government to conduct public hearing …
Sambalpur: Normal life was hit in Western Odisha on Thursday due to disruption in train and bus services and closure of shops during a bandh demanding scrapping of Sindol hydro-power project and setting up of a permanent High Court bench in the region. Shops, business establishments, schools, colleges, banks and …
Construction of main intake of Rani, Jamara and Kulariya canal under Karnali Irrigation Project based in Karnali Chisapani is all set to begin within a few days. The construction of the intake, which was stalled for the past six months due to obstructions by locals, is getting momentum after Minister …
BHUBANESWAR: Members cutting across party lines on Monday demanded scrapping of the MoU for the Sindol project even as Speaker Pradeep Amat suggested setting up of a House Committee to gauge public opinion on the project with the Government readily agreeing to it. The Speaker’s intervention followed after the Government …
BALASORE: Several families, mostly farmers and fishermen displaced by the Integrated Test Range (ITR) here languish in penury, awaiting compensation 28 years after their lands were acquired for the project. With agricultural lands lost to the project, the oustees have been reduced to daily wage labourers. Several pleas to the …
“They will totally shatter livelihood of fishermen” Nearly 7,000 fishermen, including over 3,000 women from 11 coastal hamlets in the district, observed a fast at Idinthakarai on Tuesday demanding the closure of the nuclear reactors under construction at Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project. Speakers at the protest venue, St. Lourdes Church, …
Guwahati: At least seven people were swept away and thousands displaced by flash floods in Assam Monday, officials said, adding that army soldiers and Indian Air Force helicopters were being deployed to rescue trapped villagers, officials said. A government spokesperson said heavy rains triggered massive flooding in the eastern Dhemaji …
At least seven people were swept away and thousands displaced by flash floods in Assam Monday, officials said, adding that army soldiers and Indian Air Force helicopters were being deployed to rescue trapped villagers, officials said. A government spokesperson said heavy rains triggered massive flooding in the eastern Dhemaji district, …
