Full Coverage: India

26.02.2007 Tongues on Fire Film Festival, London, 9-31 March, "celebrates the excellence, performance and achievements of Asian women in cinema". It showcases work by women or stories where women are the central protagonists "in order to encourage debate and hold up a mirror to life".

23.02.2007 Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Development (DFID) Suma Chakrabarti tells The Financial Express in an interview that a political consensus is building on in the UK over committing its Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment of 0.7% of its GNP. Read on for more.

23.02.2007 Single-minded pursuit of exports has helped China reach record economic growth figures. But millions of Chinese have been left behind, and this growth has severe environmental costs. These are indicators that India must be wary of copying China's Special Economic Zones-approach.

21.02.2007 As a UN committee readies to discuss India's compliance with human rights standards this week, a new report charges that it has systematically failed to ensure the fundamental human rights of Dalits, or so-called untouchables.

21.02.2007 The Jarawa tribe of Andaman Islands could be "wiped out" unless the Indian government acts to protect them, a report warns as the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination prepares to discuss India’s record.
+ Canadian tribe reaches out to Jarawa

15.02.2007 India’s Total Literacy Campaign used a new system by making local administrators and community organisations--not central bureaucrats--responsible for implementation. ID21 looks at the program's lasting impact on the women who administered the program, worked as volunteer teachers, and were taught literacy and numeracy skills.

14.02.2007 Indian Public Sector Unit Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is planning to connect 80,000 villages through wireless broadband. The installation of WiMax WiMax will provide broadband access to customers within a radius of 25 kilometers. BSNL's project will further boost the Central government's e-Governance agenda.

14.02.2007 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) will hold its Annual Regional Meeting (ARM) at Dhulikhel, near Kathmandu, in Nepal on February 27-28, 2007. The ARM is an annual feature in which OneWorld partners, civil society organisations and development stakeholders gather to discuss achieving the MDGs. The theme for this year's ARM is Midway to MDGs: Accelerating Progress Through ICTs.

14.02.2007 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) will hold its Annual Regional Meeting (ARM) at Dhulikhel, near Kathmandu, in Nepal on February 27-28, 2007. The ARM is an annual feature in which OneWorld partners, civil society organisations and development stakeholders gather to discuss achieving the MDGs. The theme for this year's ARM is Midway to MDGs: Accelerating Progress Through ICTs.

14.02.2007 Nobel-palkitun taloustieteilijä Amartya Senin mielestä Intian talouden kasvu ei tuo helpotusta intialaisten aliravitsemuksesta, anemiasta ja peruskoulutuksen puutteista kärsivien lasten ahdinkoon. Hallituksen on panostettava enemmän koulutukseen ja terveydenhuoltoon, jotta ongelmat voidaan ratkaista.

13.02.2007 Never in the past two decades has the situation been as favourable as now for progress on one of the most intractable South Asian conflicts of our times - Kashmir.
From: Himal magazine

07.02.2007 India’s gharials are in serious trouble. There are fewer than 200 of these river predators left in the wild. And their deplorable state has remained ignored even by the media, while the tiger hogs the headline - but the truth is that gharials are 20 times more endangered than tigers.

02.02.2007 NEW DELHI, Feb 1 (IPS) - As a legal battle launched by the Swiss pharmaceuticals multinational Novartis against India's patents law warms up, health activists are gearing up to mount a campaign against drug monopolies and the people's right to medicines at affordable prices.