Islands
An island or isle is any piece of subcontinental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm. Sedimentary islands in the Ganges delta are called chars. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands, such as the Philippines, is referred to as an archipelago. An island may be described as such, despite the presence of an …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 June 2024 English
2023 across the entire country, except for a few inaccessible villages in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Data for the survey was gathered from 8,723 villages and 6,115 urban blocks encompassing 261,746 …
inaccessible villages in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The survey has been spread over 8,723 villages … inaccessible villages in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Information in the survey was collected from … 419 10,715 7,421 18,136 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 37 20 644 356 1,000 Chandigarh 20 20 360 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 May 2024 English
This report was published in May 2024 by Access Now for the #KeepItOn campaign which promotes the end of internet shutdowns. The report is authored by Zach Rosson, Felicia Anthonio, …
respectively.10 Cable cuts impacting Taiwan’s Matsu Islands suggest China may also be among this group.11 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …
Bermuda, Bolivia, Cambodia, Cape Verde*, Cayman Islands, Djibouti*, Dominican Republic*, Ecuador, French … Leste*, Tonga*, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S. Virgin Islands*, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. *Cities …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 February 2024 English
The National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, published this factsheet on the nation-wide 'Household Consumption Expenditure Survey' on February 24, 2024. The survey …
inaccessible villages in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Information in the survey has been collected … 5,040 West Bengal 3,239 5,267 Andaman & N Islands 7,332 10,268 Chandigarh 7,467 12,575 Dadra … 5,104 West Bengal 3,407 5,426 Andaman & N Islands 7,332 10,268 Chandigarh 7,467 12,577 Dadra … 10,715 7,421 1,68,057 67,825 Andaman & N Islands 644 356 625 498 Chandigarh 360 360 82 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
Becoming a Young Farmer with the subtitle Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia is a collection of research papers published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024 and …
Rural Studies University of the Highlands and Islands Inverness, UK Belinda Leach Guelph, ON, Canada …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English
The three-volume report Crime in India 2022 was published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), an agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, in December 2022. …
Bengal 987.64 11 Karnataka 674.09 29 A&N Islands 4.02 12 Kerala 356.80 30 Chandigarh 12 … 26996 1015.4 26.6 79.2 UNION TERRITORIES: 29 A&N Islands 17 14 27 0.3 106.2 81.5 30 Chandigarh 43 22 74 … STATE(S) 1237 1286 1.2 83 92 0.1 417 428 0.4 29 A&N Islands 1 1 3.9 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 30 Chandigarh 0 0 0.0 0 … STATE(S) 70 72 0.1 7734 7917 7.6 1100 1125 1.1 29 A&N Islands 0 0 0.0 2 2 7.9 1 1 3.9 30 Chandigarh 0 0 0.0 0 … STATE(S) 315 317 0.3 34 34 0.0 80 80 0.1 29 A&N Islands 2 2 7.9 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 30 Chandigarh 0 0 0.0 0 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English
The three-volume report Crime in India 2022 was published by the National Crime Records Bureau, an agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, in December 2022. This …
Bengal 987.64 11 Karnataka 674.09 29 A&N Islands 4.02 12 Kerala 356.80 30 Chandigarh 12 … 3226710 13403.0 240.7 74.9 UNION TERRITORIES: 29 A&N Islands 482 386 460 4.0 114.4 83.9 30 Chandigarh 2583 2401 … 2236112 13403.0 166.8 92.8 UNION TERRITORIES: 29 A&N Islands 2060 946 1129 4.0 280.8 99.4 30 Chandigarh 671 … 5462822 13403.0 407.6 82.0 UNION TERRITORIES: 29 A&N Islands 2542 1332 1589 4.0 395.3 94.5 30 Chandigarh 3254 … 28610 2.1 3495 4094 0.3 156358 172840 11.7 29 A&N Islands 7 7 1.7 3 3 0.7 31 35 7.7 30 Chandigarh 18 19 1 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
of reaching world markets (section 3); The land and water of Bengal: The story of sand bars and islands (section 4); The land and water of Assam: The story of Chapori (section 5); Rivers and travel: the … lands of the Bengal delta region. But the law was changed four or five times due to formation of new islands and changing courses of rivers.This book also mentions the British conquest of Assam in 1826 which …
water of Bengal: 21 The story of sand bars and islands 5. The land and water of Assam: The story of chapori … water of Bengal: The story of sand bars and islands The East India Company had originally come to this … giving rise to sandbars in the water, like small islands. Those who lived and grew crops close to the Ganga … would be considered the owner of the newly-formed islands in the middle of the river? Furious arguments broke … overflowing its banks, but somewhere else new islands emerged from the water. Meanwhile, the East India …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
This paper has been published in the Journal of Environmental Management in November 2023. It has been written by researchers Lea S. Schroder, Amol K. Bhalerao, Khondokar H. Kabir, Jurgen …
adaptation strategies in vulnerable riverine char islands of Bangladesh. Land Use Pol. 103. Ali, M.F., …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2023 English
The State of India’s Birds (SoIB) is a periodic, national-level examination of the distribution range and abundance trends of Indian birds that aids in formulating conservation plans. The SoIB last …
PRIORITY SPECIES for States Andaman & Nicobar Islands Nicobar Megapode Nicobar Sparrowhawk Narcondam … Grey-crowned Prinia Finn’s Weaver 23 Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Andaman Teal, Nicobar Megapode, Lesser Sand Plover … these, 30 are endemic to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, 36 to the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, and 95 … jackals that access islands when river banks get connected to the nesting islands, resulting in 32–35% … (breeding season) cultivation on river banks and sand islands along many large rivers and reservoirs. Although …
