Full Coverage: India

28.06.2006 "Youth take charge!" This was the clarion call given by the Indian government as Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat launched YUVA (Youth Unite for Victory on AIDS) in Delhi. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been the "most serious public health problem faced by the country since independence."

28.06.2006 Chikungunya, a relatively rare form of mosquito-transmitted viral fever, has claimed two lives in Madhya Pradesh and hundreds are suffering from the disease, health officials said.

28.06.2006 The United Progress Alliance (UPA) government that has completed two years of its term as the ruling party is still falling short of its targets that were set for itself under the Common Minimum Program (CMP).

28.06.2006 With the first phase of the AIDS vaccine human trial being kicked off in the city, scientists involved in the trial are looking at absorbing more volunteers for the second such vaccine trial in the country.

27.06.2006 Four months after the launch of the landmark job guarantee scheme, a nationwide study reveals that only 30% of those registering for the scheme have received job cards. Women, minorities, the elderly and the physically-challenged are not even being allowed to register

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Students in IndiaÂ’s northeast will soon have satellite-based educational facilities to enhance their knowledge base.

27.06.2006 Deepening income inequalities in South Asian countries may impede the recent strong economic growth witnessed in the region, a new World Bank report cautioned.

27.06.2006 A woman in the Patna village of Baikunthpur district invited a hefty penalty on June 23, 2006, after she got on to the roof of her clay-made hut to lay tiles. Residents believe that such an act will lead to scanty rainfall during the monsoon.

27.06.2006 "Mari chori thi maine mar di. Tane kya?" (She was my daughter and I killed her. What's it to you?) Muzaffarnagar, which is fast acquiring the nickname 'Muhhabatnagar', is a hub of honour killings.

26.06.2006 One of the most awkward - and yet, strangely compelling - things about journalism is that sometimes your work makes you hold a mirror to your own life. This past week, a quiet, but determined 16-year-old became an unexpected reflection of my education. Barkha Dutt reflects.

26.06.2006 While addressing a conference recently on Hepatitis in Karachi, the Sindh health minster said that there were at least 5,348 hepatitis patients in the province and that this number is increasing with alarming pace.

26.06.2006 The Unesco has expressed willingness to support Akshaya, the State's IT dissemination project, in the field of women empowerment.

26.06.2006 In what is seen as a landmark achievement, scientists at the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI),Lucknow, India, have developed a new drug to control and cure depression - a growing problem afflicting many across the country.

26.06.2006 It is the responsibility of the administration to prevent maternal deaths but it seems it has now the only duty of counting the number of deaths. Death continues to haunt families in Keonjhar district of Orissa and the wide gap in the sex ratio here is an outcome of profuse maternal deaths.

26.06.2006 Almost a year after the unprecedented deluge of July 26, 2005, the Maharashtra government is yet to introduce ‘disaster management’ as a subject of study in schools at the secondary level, even though it had planned to do so from the current academic year.

26.06.2006 Technology bellwether, IBM has signed an MoU with the Uttar Pradesh Government to give impetus to e-governance by providing quality training to IT students under an ambitious programme titled Project INVITE.

23.06.2006 International organisations expect India to play a lead role in the global control of small arms because the country has been a major victim of the illegal trade in foreign-made sophisticated arms. They want that India should be able to push for a consensus at a UN conference on small arms that begins on June 26.

23.06.2006 The Andhra Pradesh government will introduce health and hygiene as special subjects in all schools from academic year 2007-2008, according to A. Chinnappa Reddy, Sports Advisor to Chief Minister.

23.06.2006 A three-day international symposium on "Building leadership skills in food and nutrition essential for national development" will begin at the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) Mysore, Karnataka today.

23.06.2006 Chennai will soon have a new medical centre to provide "quality and affordable medical aid under one roof."