Full Coverage: International Cooperation

24.02.2007 Five years after the Sri Lankan government signed a Norway-brokered ceasefire agreement (CFA) with Tamil separatist rebels, all actors are now agreed that the document now remains solely on paper.

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 The Left parties and experts demanded the scrapping of the Mashelkar committee report on patents, and asked the Government to reject any proposal from its members to rewrite the "plagiarised" and "pro-multinational corporation" paper.

22.02.2007 According to a World Health Organisation survey, many Indian families, whose inability to access or afford water, sanitation and nutritious food has made them more prone to ill-health, have been pushed below the poverty line by the rising cost of healthcare

22.02.2007 The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)'s climate coordinator in the South Pacific says that a recent United Nations report on climate change has "underestimated" the threat to millions of people in the region from sea-level rise.

20.02.2007 For the third time in less than a year, terrorists have attempted to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan. Handing them a victory is the last thing we should do.Mr Siddharth Varadarajan. express this view in Hindu.

19.02.2007 The East West Institute announces public competition for grants under its GPKT Project (Gnjilane, Presevo, Kumanovo, Trgoviste Cross-Border cooperation). The deadline for application expires on March 15, 2007.

19.02.2007 Some of the biggest brands in electronics industries and their suppliers are contaminating rivers and underground wells with a wide range of hazardous chemicals, according to a Greenpeace survey

16.02.2007 The federal cabinet to increase public-private investment in the education sector from the current level of 2.6 per cent of GDP to four per cent is a good step.However, approval of this decision comes with several qualifiers.

14.02.2007 Mere expansion of the Indian economy will not address the issues relating to the plight of the Indian child who continues to suffer from under-nourishment, anaemia and lack of basic schooling facilities, Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen said.

12.02.2007 Faced with energetic and widespread popular protests against special economic zones, India has decided to go slow on this particular model of industrialisation based on creating export-oriented tax-free enclaves.

09.02.2007 The ALFA Centre NGO from Niksic, Montenegro, expressed its interest to cooperate with organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina that share same or similar orientation and goals.

08.02.2007 The group of Union ministers has given its recommendation for foreign direct investment in higher education. According to Secretary, Higher Education, reservation rules would also be applicable in the colleges to be opened by the foreign universities. As per policies, the same rules would be applicable for foreign educational institutions as are for domestic institutions.

08.02.2007 Many Bhutanese women and children are dying still dying unnecessarily, according to a report by the National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC). For infants, while pneumonia is the major killer, thousands are still dying from diarrhea. A high proportion of these deaths are in the first weeks of life. Many children are stunted or underweight or lack vital micronutrients

08.02.2007 Following the first-ever gathering of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), held in Athens from 30 October to 2 November 2006, a special stock-taking session will take place next Tuesday, 13 February, at Geneva’s Palais des Nations where the participants will assess the achievements of the inaugural meeting and pave the way forward.

06.02.2007 Delhi’s (and India’s) public schools are actually private schools. Getting access there is no less a achievement than tackling the IIT’s JEE. Perhaps no where is this more true than in the Nation’s capital , where even getting your child into a kindergarten class is so nightmarish that they are governed by court directives and the admissions process is monitored by the Delhi High Court.

06.02.2007 Underscoring its commitment to enabling India to become an innovators nation and bridge the digital divide, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it imparted training on open standards based technologies to more than 80,000 students in over 745 colleges in India during 2006.

06.02.2007 Will the Sri Lankan government forego recent military gains in Tamil rebel-held areas of the island and heed the advice of donors to resume dialogue with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

05.02.2007 India's Toxics Link will join a large number of non-governmental organisations to call upon Governments across the globe to place a ban on mercury exports in a bid to check increasing mercury pollution at the 24th United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council meeting.

02.02.2007 President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam asked the medical fraternity, particularly the medical students, to reach out to the rural areas and ensure that the poor could access timely and quality medical care.