Some European birds will have to fly further as global warming shifts their breeding grounds northwards in the biggest challenge to the tiny migrants since the Ice Age, scientists said on Wednesday.

In the backdrop of two important upcoming research projects about migration from Punjab, a workshop on

They travelled from China to Turkey and then to Siberia, where they might have resettled TEN thousand years ago, the tiger reigned over Eurasia from the Sunda Islands of Indonesia to India to eastern Turkey and up north into Siberia. Environmental changes and human influence drove some of its subspecies

The modern tiger (Panthera tigris) is believed to have originated from East and Southeast Asia about two million years ago. This correlates with the family tree of the current study which shows the South China tiger is the oldest subspecies. The first subspecies to be given a scientific name was the Indian tiger or Bengal tiger. The Caspian tiger was the second. Till now it was believed

About 500,000 people move to Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh each year, mostly from coastal, riverine and rural areas.

New Delhi: Migration to cities from rural areas seems to be the panacea for lifting people out of poverty as per the latest World Development Report (WDR) released by The World Bank in Delhi on Thursday. The new report challenges the assumption that economic activities should be spread geographically for the benefit of the poor.