Full Coverage: India

29.11.2006 Greenpeace has criticised the Indian government over its e-waste - waste from electronic and electrical equipment - policies for ignoring international laws and for putting the burden of handling e-waste on consumers and not producers. The organisation has said that the policy will "open the floodgates for dumping e-wastes in the country."

29.11.2006 Nirantar, a New Delhi-based NGO that works on gender and education, has announced its Annual Course on Participatory Material Production, to be held in two phases in November 2006, at Chitrakoot in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and March 2007 in Indian capital New Delhi.

29.11.2006 India-based Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) is organising the Asian Telecentre Forum 2007 conference from 6-8 February 2007 at the Palace of the Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The last date for submission of abstracts is 15th December 2006.

28.11.2006 The decision by the Indian government to allow civil society organisations and community groups to own and operate radio stations will give an additional tool to the civil society to empower people it works with.

28.11.2006 Papiya Sarkar from the Media and Communications group of the India Social Forum (ISF) writes about the seminars on globalisation and fair trade that she attended at the recently-concluded ISF. The discussions were on overcoming barriers to fair trade and making it work for the socio economic development of the marginalised sections of the population.

27.11.2006 The New Delhi based Center for Science and Environment (CSE) has laid out an agenda for the recently set up Tiger Task force that says that the government will have to involve local people and tribals in protecting the tiger and will have to tackle the menace of poaching at the international level.

27.11.2006 Indian civil society organisations from one of India's most backward states Madhya Pradesh joined hands with people and the government to participate in the global event - Stand Up Against Poverty on 15-16 October, 2006. They joined some 23 million people across the world in the event.

26.11.2006 Some 100,000 children in India have called on their government to fulfill its promise to commit 9% of GDP to education and health spending.

24.11.2006 The Panchayat Presidentship is not a bed of roses to the newly elected Dalit presidents in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu as a majority of them remain sheer puppets in the hands of the upper castes.

The recent gruesome murder of the newly elected panchayat president belongs to dalit community in Tirunelveli district of sourther Tamil Nadu (India), has once again proved that no political reservation in the local body elections would bring out any change in the plight of the entire Dalit community that remains thrown to the wolves under the oppression of the caste Hindus.

20.11.2006 In their campaign against child labour, UNICEF has pasted posters bearing Chunchun's photograph all over Bihar. But Chunchun is still working as a child labour in a roadside dhaba in Patna (India)

20.11.2006 We will talk about virtually everything that touches the community

20.11.2006 In response to the growing worrisome incidents of atrocities on dalits, the Stop-Atrocity IT Unit, Pune has come forward with an idea of establishing a Helpline to prevent all atrocities and safeguarding the basic rights of dalits in India.

17.11.2006 Just hours before the U.S. Senate voted Thursday to approve nuclear trade with India, 14 former government officials and current international legislators released a letter expressing their concern about the global ramifications of such a deal.

17.11.2006 The decision by the Indian government to allow civil society organisations and community groups to own and operate radio stations will give an additional tool to the civil society to empower people it works with.

17.11.2006 New Delhi based-NGO, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has warned of a smoggy, choking winter in Delhi this year because of rising vehicle numbers and the city's love for diesel as the fuel of choice. But evidence indicts diesel fumes as harbingers of cancer and other deadly ailments.

17.11.2006 A single most casue of Dalits atrocities in India are economic and in most cases, upper caste Hindus do not take kindly to the economic prosperity of a few Dalit families says Planning Commission member Bhalchandra Mungekar

17.11.2006 The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is inviting applications for CSE Media Fellowships on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA): Opportunities and Challenges. The felloships are open to journalists and the last date is November 28, 2006.

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