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 …
Keeping in view the ensuing monsoon a contingency plan would be implemented in the areas of various reservoirs of Narmada Valley. The plan would include safety masseurs and other basic requirement for the needy affected families, informed chairman of NVDA KL Agrawal here at Narmada Bhawan while reviewing the rehabilitation …
The number of people displaced by conflict and natural disaster in Central and East Africa is now more than 11 million, the United Nations said on Monday. The numbers have grown recently due to attacks on civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the Lord's Resistance Army rebel …
More than 17 million people in Bangladesh would be displaced by a sea level rise of 1.5 metres, warned Jonathan Bamber, a professor at Bristol University in England, disclosing a study report which found that a collapse of the ice sheet of West Antarctica would push up world sea levels …
This report of a conference held at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study on special economic zones raises doubts about their desirability on different counts. It is centred around three themes: (1) SEZs and economic development; (2) SEZs and distributive implications; and (3) SEZs and the legal issues.
MUMBAI: Former Union minister Ram Naik and National Alliance of People's Movements leader Medha Patkar have come out strongly against the displacement of thousands of families from Laljipada in Charkop which is to be acquired for a carshed for Mumbai Metro's second line from Charkop to Mankhurd via Bandra. On …
Mumbai * We have been living in the area for nearly three decades now. We run businesses here and now the government wants to raze it for a metro car shed at Charkop. We cannot allow this. * Limited open spaces cannot be occupied by overhead metro, when underground metro …
The death toll from floods and mudslides triggered by a typhoon in the northern Philippines has more than doubled to 36, with 12 people still missing, the government said on Sunday. Typhoon Chan-Hom, the fifth to hit the country this year, slammed into the northern Philippines on Friday and destroyed …
JORHAT, May 7: The flood displaced people of Majuli, the reverine island of Asom, are still residing on the embankment at North-West Jorhat under Dergaon legislative assembly constituency. As many as forty families which are displaced from their original homesteads of Majuli are still languishing in the open at no. …
The order of KSHRC in respect of a petition filed by project affected people under the Upper Krishna Project, as more than 30000 population of Bagalkot city has been deprived of their right to life and livelihood due to compulsory acquisition of their properties because of submersion under the backwaters …
This report explores how environmental shocks and stresses, especially those related to climate change, can push people to leave their homes in search of
V. K. SRINIVASAN The contributors analyse the advantages and disadvantages of SEZs SOCIAL, POLITICAL ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS OF SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES IN INDIA
In Kolkata, pavement hawking is an everyday phenomenon and hawkers represent one of the largest, more organised and more militant sectors in the informal economy. This note documents the hawkers
The government chooses economic growth over xenophobia and greenery AP General Giap fights another battle IN A one-party state where people are routinely jailed for criticising government policy, it is rare for all but the most brave or foolhardy to speak out. But a government plan to allow a Chinese …
- Santhal Pargana residents cry out for justice Dumka: Thousands of tribal families across six districts in Santhal Pargana still wait for financial and social justice, decades after several projects have come up on land apparently grabbed from them. This Thursday, at least 1.5 lakh villagers among the three Santhal …
The government has decided to introduce community farming for the displaced people who arrive in Vavuniya from conflict areas, and a 100-acre extent of land had been earmarked for this purpose, a top official in Vavuniya said yesterday. Government Agent P.S.M. Charles said a dam would be constructed across the …
Interim report of the People's Commission of Inquiry to inquire into the land deals, land transfers and displacement due to dams and Lavasa Project in the Sahyadri (mountainous) region of Pune, Maharashtra.
