Full Coverage: Development

29.12.2006 The suspension of Doha Round negotiations in July this year has brought into focus not only the substantive issues which are the subject of discord, but also institutionalised asymmetries which continue to pervade WTO after its emergence from GATT.

29.12.2006 The Asian Development Bank has agreed to provide a loan assistance of Rs. 2124 million and a grant assistance of Rs. 141.6 million to the Government of Nepal for the implementation of Education Sector Programme 1 and the Capacity Development Project, respectively.

29.12.2006 Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar, along with several activists of trade unions and civil society organisations, staged a sit-in outside the Banga Bhavan here on Thursday against alleged forcible acquisition of agriculture land for the Tatas to set up a car factory in Singur

29.12.2006 The world is losing billions a year in economic growth due to inequities between men and women, international economists reported from Washington.

28.12.2006 In October 2006, eight years after India and Pakistan crossed the nuclear threshold, the world witnessed yet another breakout, when North Korea exploded an atomic bomb and demanded that it be recognised as a nuclear weapons-state. Talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons, in return for security guarantees and economic assistance, collapsed last week.

28.12.2006 Washington's offer to resettle most of the 106,000 Bhutanese refugees who have stagnated in camps in Nepal for 16 years has provoked a whirlwind of reaction that could finally sweep away official inertia toward their plight.

28.12.2006 Jabala’s Safe Migration Project gets panchayats in West Bengal to keep track of women who migrate into urban areas, providing a safety net for women who get trapped into sex work or slave labour.

28.12.2006 Inaugurating the Dalit-Minority International Conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was necessary to make a distinction between the problems faced by Dalits and those by minorities.

27.12.2006 The Centre plans to declare 2007 as Water Year — Year of More Crop and Income Per Drop of Water.The Union Ministry of Water Resources has accepted a suggestion to this effect and will soon approach the Union Cabinet for approval.

27.12.2006 Holland-based NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said violence or its threat appears to have a large impact on the psychological health of people in the trouble-torn State.

27.12.2006 ActionAid was among the numerous NGOs to respond to the tragedy, launching its emergency response in all the affected countries - India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the Maldives and Somalia. Click here to access the tsunami information centre by ActionAid and find out how ActionAid is bring hope to people in the affected countries.

26.12.2006 Universalisation of Elementary Education is a national goal for which Distance Education Programme is a national resource and major support for distance learning programme.

26.12.2006 a growing number of women, who have formed self help groups and started making candles, papads and pickles, are now making forays into ambitious new projects in an effort to cement a new future.

26.12.2006 A dozen village information centres functioning in the tsunami-hit coastal villages of Tamil Nadu get Internet connectivity. This facility would provides the fishermen have access to video conferencing, weather reports, local market network on fishing trade in these villages.

26.12.2006 For activist Nirmala Purandare, training barefoot teachers in Maharashtra does not stop at education. It’s an attempt to usher in a social revolution

26.12.2006 Global poverty estimates report the number of people living on less than $1 or $2 a day. But purchasing power (dis)parities suggest that it could be more accurate to say that the poor in countries like India are living on less than $0.20 or $0.40 a day, says Aseem Shrivastava

26.12.2006 People in South Asia overwhelmingly support democracy, except in Pakistan, where about half the respondents in a survey said that democratic or non-democratic forms of government made no difference to them.

22.12.2006 A professor of philosophy and law at the University of Chicago, Martha Nussbaum has made a significant contribution in promoting the capabilities approach to development, which regards central human capabilities (such as the ability to live a full life, engage in recreational activities and participate in politics) as the framework for development.

21.12.2006 Dalit and Minorities International Conference on "Power to the Powerless" in the Indian Socio- economic and political scenario to be held on December 27th and 28th, 2006 at G.M.C. Bal Yogi Auditorium, Parliament Library Building, New Delhi.

21.12.2006 Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Wednesday said market economy was here to stay but could not be relied upon for developmental tasks. "Land reforms will help reduce distress migration"