Full Coverage: India

06.11.2009 India’s response to climate change has been paltry, half-hearted and directed at preserving existing elite lifestyles. Its credibility in international negotiations will only be restored if it takes urgent measures to reduce domestic energy use, says Praful Bidwai.

12.10.2009 The UK government today blasted Vedanta Resources over its treatment of the Dongria Kondh tribe in Orissa, India.

16.09.2009 A summary of issues surrounding India's proposed Food Security Bill which aims to distribute food to the poorest households. Institute of Development Studies

01.09.2009 An attractive portal which encourages India and its people to demonstrate leadership and action on climate change.

31.08.2009 The Indian cabinet has cleared a proposal for constitutional amendment to provide 50 per cent quota to women in local government, up from 33 per cent.

28.08.2009 Almost half of India is reeling under a drought as a result of insufficient monsoon rainfall, says Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.

23.08.2009 Jeffery Sachs, supposed UN champion of the poor, has no time for the Copenhagen process as a means to fight climate change. InfoChange

23.08.2009 Indian environmentalists borrow the photo-opportunity tactics of western campaign groups in a drive for renewable energy legislation. InfoChange

17.08.2009 This story encapsulates the energy-technology-climate debate across the developing world. The Indian government has great plans for renewable energy but is confused about paying for it. Guardian

17.08.2009 News from India of a variety of rice which will survive periods without rain. BBC

13.08.2009 The Government of India makes another attempt at getting poor children into school. Legislation is only part of the answer. BBC

04.08.2009 The Indian government should take major steps to overhaul a policing system that encourages human rights violations, an international rights group said today.

27.07.2009 Campaigner Bianca Jagger and musician Nitin Sawhney will stand alongside indigenous activist Sitaram Kulisika of India's Khondh people at British mining company Vedanta's AGM today to protest against a proposal to open a massive bauxite mine on their spiritual homeland.
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24.07.2009 Repeated protests by indigenous people in Orissa, India, have blocked the mining plans of one of Britain’s biggest companies, leading to a costly delay.

22.07.2009 A Dalit (Untouchable) community in India is being punished for one person's alleged crime, according to a human rights organisation in Gujarat: it claims 12 households have been living under a boycott which denies them work, the use of village shops, contact with non-Dalits and access to parts of the village.

15.07.2009 The UN and India’s National Human Rights Committee have been asked to stop a controversial bauxite mine in India.

09.07.2009 The Yes Men, two US filmmakers whose funny but alarming documentary feature is to be released in UK cinemas next month, are to bring the plight of the people of Bhopal to the West by dispensing Bhopal drinking water to Londoners on 13 July.

09.07.2009 Heavy monsoon rains have been falling on the Indian state of Assam and neighbouring states for several days, causing floods which have forced 500,000 people from their homes.

15.06.2009 A luxury resort being built on the Andaman Islands in India is threatening the survival of the Jarawa tribe, who number just 320 and have only had contact with outsiders since 1998.

23.05.2009 Cherie Blair is to launch a campaign to encourage people to hold dinner parties for needy Indian children.