Full Coverage: MDGs

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 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 JabalaÂ’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.

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.

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 For activist Nirmala Purandare, training barefoot teachers in Maharashtra does not stop at education. ItÂ’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 A five-day training programme on computer applications and its effective usage in advocacy and communications at rural level was organised for the field functionaries of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) at New Delhi from 18 – 22 December, 2006.

21.12.2006 Government Defence Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella yesterday challenged the remark by UN Special Rapporteur on Child Soldiers Alan Rock that he would come up with evidence in two months to prove the Security Forces were conniving in child abductions, saying that the LTTE's self admission in the abduction of 24 OL students clearly showed who the perpetrators were.

20.12.2006 Anti dumping is not just a protectionist instrument but also an important tool to safeguard domestic industries from cheap imports especially in the wake of reduced tariffs and quota elimination, said Prof. B. S. Chimni, eminent legal expert and former Vice Chancellor of National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.

20.12.2006 Telemedicine, modern communications technology, is raising hopes in healthcare and ability to monitor patients at a distance means they can leave the hospital earlier and avoid unnecessary visits to the doctor, which also saves money

20.12.2006 Endorsing Prof StiglitzÂ’s view that neither the developed economies nor the developing world can afford to ignore or reject globalisation, Dr. Manmohan Singh said: "We have to learn to deal with (globalisation), cope with and manage it.

20.12.2006 Employment of children is a criminal offence under Section 14 of the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986. The employer can be jailed for not less than 3 months but which may extend to one year or with fine which shall not be less than Rupees ten thousand but which may extend to Rupees Twenty thousand or both

19.12.2006 This year Human Rights Day focuses on fighting poverty as a matter of obligation, not of charity. Poverty is a cause and a product of human rights violations.