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- Schooling language at fault, says report
- A report released by Minority Rights Group International says millions of poor indigenous and minority children in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are ...
- 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 ...
- Pakistan: Swat women live in constant fear
- Women in Pakistan’s troubled Swat district continue to live in fear of Talibans. They are unable to resume work or even venture out without a veil. Such ...
- UN inaction in Nepal affecting climate struggle
- UN agency’s failure to recruit climate change experts is delaying a crucial plan to help Nepal cope with the impacts of global warming. The National Adaptation ...
- Crops will be hit in developing world hardest
- A new report by a leading US-based organisation predicts a gloomy future for developing countries, particularly in South Asia, as climate change may result in ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Partial recount of votes in Afghanistan ordered
- UN-backed electoral commission has found clear evidence of fraud during the recently held presidential election in Afghanistan. Recounting will be conducted at ...
- Women parliamentarians prove their mettle in Pakistan
- A new study has dispelled the widely held notion that woman parliamentarians in Pakistan are no more than “silent spectators”. On the contrary, it says they ...
- 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 ...
- Breathing clean air in Kabul tops the wish list
- Air pollution in Afghanistan’s capital city has reached dangerous proportions causing respiratory diseases, allergies, miscarriages and cancer. Vehicles plying ...
- Pricey tea in times of global meltdown
- Tea growers in Sri Lanka have been told to cut down on production to keep the prices high. The move comes in the wake of reluctance from international buyers, ...
- 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 ...
- Sri Lanka needs ‘agricultural renaissance’
- Just before and after Sri Lanka was liberated, it was cited as a model low-income nation with extraordinary human development index. Somewhere down the line ...
- 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 ...
- Polling in Nepal begins
- Nepals historic poll began early this morning. About 17.6 million eligible voters will have a choice to elect a Constituent Assembly that will decide the fate ...
- Cry for my beloved country
- When recently Bhutan took its first steps towards democracy, the international community and media showered praise on its monarch. But for those living in ...
- 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 ...
- Children are highest casualties in Bangladesh cyclone
- Aid agencies have put the total death count at over 5,000 – more than half being children – four days after Cyclone Sidr wrecked Bangladesh’s southern coast. ...
