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- UID in India: 'A number that walks with you'
- Chairman of Unique Identification Authority in India Nandan Nilekani says the project has many significant benefits for the poor. Despite risks of hacking and ...
- India's UID project to track identity via cellphone
- Unique Identity Authority of India chairman Nandan Nilekani announced last week that an online authentication through mobile phones would soon be initiated in ...
- Stand Up Campaign launched in India
- United Nations Millennium Campaign today launched the Stand Up Take Action 2009 in the Indian capital urging citizens and civil society to hold government ...
- Bearded vultures spotted in India
- A large colony of 200 Lammergeiers was seen earlier this week in remote Himachal Pradesh, close to the China border. The sighting is a major discovery in India ...
- No one cares about elder abuse in India
- In India incidents of abuse and neglect of older people are increasing by the day. There is also a widespread understanding that it is a normal consequence of ...
- Indian women: Faceless, voiceless and un-represented
- Successive governments in India have failed to address the core concerns of women voters, who constitute around half the total voters of the country. Will the ...
- No count of India's Bihar tribals
- Hundreds of thousands of Gond, Santhal and Tharu tribals remain untracked in the eastern Indian state due to government apathy, claims Hunger Free Bihar ...
- 'Villages can prosper only if their water woes are solved'
- In a first attempt of its kind, a village in western India will be developed as a role model for use of water resources, according to the guidelines set by ...
- Tourism a major ecological concern in Ladakh
- Tourism is flourishing and providing livelihood opportunities to the people of Ladakh but is also playing havoc with its fragile eco-system, writes Shobha ...
- Sweepers in western India demand a fair share
- Fighting for minimum wages, the safai kamdars or cleaning staff in Gandhinagar have been on a month-long strike. These contract workers in the western ...
- Making women comfortable with themselves
- Young women need to be part of an organisation to understand the 'collective consciousness', says Ruth Manorama, whose efforts have helped make a space ...
- No education for all in India
- Even as UNESCO’s latest report pans India for lagging behind in the race for achieving education for all by 2015, experts gathered in the capital weigh up the ...
- India to focus on climate change research
- The Indian government has given the green signal to its Ministry of Science and Technology for setting up an exclusive division on climate change research. The ...
- Education must to end child labour
- Celebrating June 12 as the World Day Against Child Labour, a Delhi-based NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan drew attention to the global call for education to end all ...
- Bring land reforms back on agenda
- P.V. Rajagopal of the Ekta Parishad talks while he walks, in a freewheeling interview with OneWorld South Asia, along with 25,000 people towards the ...
- India going slow in reducing hunger, says Global Hunger Index
- The second Global Hunger Index presents a gloomy picture when it comes to meeting the MDG targets related to hunger and child mortality. Barring a few ...
- 'Democracy in India is failing'
- The Jan Haq Yatra, covering 16 Indian states, was recently organised to sensitise people on pressing social and economic issues. Faisal Anurag and ...
- Indian apex court upholds validity of reservation
- In a landmark judgment, Indiareme Court has upheld the law that provides reservation in admissions in central government educational institutions to backward ...
- Guinea pigs of the world
- Multinational drug companies and research institutions find places like India a prime destination for holding unethical clinical trials due to lax regulations ...
- Barefoot teachers usher in change
- The Vanasthali Rural Development Centre (VRDC) in Pune was started with a simple thought: to train rural women to enable them start balwadis or nurseries in ...
- Organisations in India protest against emergency in Pakistan
- Several India-based organisations came together here in New Delhi yesterday to express their solidarity on the International Day of Action on Pakistan. They ...
- No more violence, cry Nandigram villagers
- Forced to flee from their homes, the villagers of Nandigram now only want to be left in peace. The recent upsurge of political violence in this East Midnapore ...
- Amnesty condemns attack on farmers in Nandigram
- Human rights body Amnesty International has expressed concern at the recent political violence and displacement of hundreds of local inhabitants in the eastern ...
- Enslaved children rescued from GAP sweatshop
- Fourteen minors were recently rescued from the clutches of a sub-contractor, working for clothing giant GAP, by a local NGO in Shahpur Jaat area in the Indian ...
- Child slavery thriving in Indian cotton industry
- India has distinction of having the largest area under cotton cultivation in the world and has been a pioneer in developing hybrid cotton seeds for commercial ...
- Protracted struggle forces ADB to pull out of Phulbari
- Asian Development Bank withdrawing from controversial Phulbari coal mining project in Bangladesh is being seen as a major victory for human rights movement. ...
- Love for bushmeat: India's rare species at risk
- Despite the ban on hunting since 1991, rampant corruption and poor law enforcement have made it possible for poachers and forest dwellers to feast on some of ...
- Community radio in India set to go global
- Given its tremendous creative potential, the community radio movement in India will create an international impact, says Steve Buckley, president of the ...
- Priyanka Calling !! - a story on Dalit life in India
- One of the best documentaries done so far on Dalit life in India.
- Economics behind dalits massacre: Bhalchandra Mungekar
- A single most casue of Dalits atrocities in India are economic and in most cases, upper caste Hindus do not take kindly to the economic prosperity of a few ...
