Full Coverage: India

31.05.2006 India now has more people living with HIV than any other country, a UNAids report has revealed.The report shows that India now accounts for two-thirds of HIV cases in the whole of Asia.

31.05.2006 In spite of Government claims that "excellent treatment is now available; modern medicines have revolutionised the treatment of mental illness; schizophrenia is curable," and so on, it is estimated that there are at least 30 lakh schizophrenics in India who are neither cured nor are they able to lead a normal life, even with the support of the so-called excellent treatment which has now been made available to them.

31.05.2006 India has finally imposed a ban on cattle drug diclofenac that had almost caused the extinction of vultures in the country in under two decades. While harmless to cattle, the drug causes fatal kidney and liver damage to vultures that feed on animal carcasses.

31.05.2006 The Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre has done little for the long-term treatment of gas victims. Though built specifically to give free long-term treatment to gas victims, the hospital, which is the only super-specialty hospital in Bhopal, also caters to other patients who pay for their treatment. In the process, the gas victims are systematically discriminated against.

31.05.2006 According to a new report, China, India, and Brazil could cut their rapidly rising energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25 percent using existing energy efficient technologies.

30.05.2006 The Central Board of Secondary Education would introduce scholarships for girl students and a slew of reforms from the coming year to make the examination more stress-free and help students perform better.

30.05.2006 The telecom dispute settlement appellate tribunal (TDSAT) has rejected VSNLÂ’s petition against Trai and DoT and held that long distance calling cards sold by the company was illegal.

30.05.2006 After the Department of Telecom volleyed the issue of allocation and pricing of spectrum for 3G mobile services to its court, regulator TRAI is all set to release a paper next week to gauge stakeholders' views.

30.05.2006 If equity, justice, redressal are not built into our ICT strategies, all we will have accomplished is to upgrade our worlds, not change them. A person form Andhra spoke to Samuha members of how a person with a disability had accessed financial assistance through the government's ICT kiosks, and how, immediately after, a Panchayat official had come up to this person, and had asked him to ‘deposit' the funds with him.

30.05.2006 The highly volatile Indian stock market may be giving sleepless nights to some, but more and more women investors, from grandmothers to college students and homemakers, are using it as an opportunity to enter the once exclusive male domain and take on the bulls and bears, reports PTI.

29.05.2006 The MCA-21 Initiative of the Ministry of Company Affairs facilitating e-filing of documents under Indian Company Law is commendable in many ways.

29.05.2006 Bihar, where former chief minister Lalu Prasad once rubbished IT as an elitist tool, is all set to take a big leap towards e-governance with the government formally adopting it as a state policy on the advice of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

29.05.2006 Right to Information (RTI) and e-governance must go hand in hand. E-governance is a key vehicle to make people at the grass root levels aware of their rights, says Wajahad Habibullah, chief information commissioner of the government of India.

29.05.2006 Bharathidasan University is set to launch an FM radio station to bridge the gap between literate and illiterate people.

29.05.2006 India's prime minister pledged on Monday to fight poverty and share the wealth of economic success as his government nears the halfway mark of its first term, but said he would not do so at the cost of strong growth.

29.05.2006 For the first time in the history of India, more than 5 million Musahars - the most disadvantaged section of India's Dalit Population in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal – are joining hands to wage struggles against their miserable conditions in Independent India.

29.05.2006 Indians are clinging on to the age-old gospel that ‘Good sons take care of aged parents’. They have little choice in a country where social security is nearly non-existent.

29.05.2006 With world energy prices and climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions ballooning in tandem with a surge in energy demand from the hot economies of China, India and Brazil, the world has a major stake in the success of energy reduction efforts, particularly in those three countries, say experts concluding a four-year international project.

27.05.2006 Scores of people participated in a silent protest in the south Indian state of Chennai as part of Global AIDS Week of Action (May 20-26). The demanded the distribution of nutritious food through the PDS, provision of anti-retroviral(ARV) therapy in primary health centres and CD4 count testing centres in all districts.

27.05.2006 A residential school for girls, in the shadow of the peak of Nanda Devi, has been graduating confident young women from the girls of Kumaon hills. Run as per the ideas of Nai Taleem of Gandhiji, Lakshmi Ashram was set up by Sarlaben – a friend and follower of Gandhiji – in ~1964.