Full Coverage: India

30.11.2007 Small salt producers in the Indian western state of Rajasthan are partnering NGOs and the government in the campaign against iodine deficiency disorders. According to the WFP, Nawa now produces iodised salt as per the national standard.

29.11.2007 Hundreds of Muslim women from across India, along with academics, social experts and parliamentarians, addressed social, livelihood, legal and religious issues of the community at the first annual convention of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) in Delhi. The campaign also called for the implementation of the 2006 Justice Sachar Committee report for better education and employment facilities.

29.11.2007 The XI National Conference on e-Governance in India, to be held on February 7-8, 2008, will focus on the national awards for e-Governance 2007-08. The event will be organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DAR&PG) in collaboration with the Department of Information Technology.

29.11.2007 Organizations and networks across 41 districts of Uttar Pradesh, IndiaÂ’s biggest northern state, have come together to campaign on the Domestic Violence Act, as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence.

27.11.2007 Domestic violence in the Russian Federation; sex slavery in India; self-immolation in Central Asian republics; gender-based violence and HIV; and 'compensation' marriages are the five underreported stories used by the UN Population Fund to launch a campaign against gender-based violence.
From: UNFPA

27.11.2007 The national platform for Dalit organizations in India, NACDOR, will hold its second national conference from December 5-8, 2007 in New Delhi. Over a thousand Dalit organizations will participate at NACDOR-II to finalise a comprehensive Dalit agenda, while tackling current challenges to the marginalized communities.

27.11.2007 A group of women is fighting social ills in Banda, one of the poorest, caste-ridden and chauvinistic societies in IndiaÂ’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Dressed in pink saris, these women fear not to wield sticks on the corrupt when need be.

22.11.2007 Ten vans will travel to the remote interiors of Tamil Nadu, IndiaÂ’s southern state, to help people test for HIV/AIDS in a programme supported by the Red Cross Societies. According to National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), India has 2.5 million people infected by the virus.

22.11.2007 The Indian elephant is in danger as the numbers of young breeding tuskers fall to a mere 1,200. Coordinated efforts on part of enforcement agencies and better border management can contribute towards fighting poachers and organized crime, says B K Sharma, head of the State Crime Branch of Orissa and leading expert on the illegal wildlife trade.

21.11.2007 The Vanasthali Rural Development Centre (VRDC) in Pune was started with a simple thought: to train rural women to enable them start balwadis or nurseries in their villages. Years later, activist Nirmala Purandare's dream has heralded a social revolution with the training of barefoot teachers in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

19.11.2007 Seven NGOs have been approved by the Ministry for Information & Broadcasting to set up community radio stations in India. This follows the MinistryÂ’s year old decision to broadbase its policy to include non-governmental organizations apart from educational institutes and agricultural groups.

19.11.2007 YES (Youth Employment Systems) Fund – the Global Fund for Youth Entrepreneurship – has announced its ICT Business Plan Competition for year 2007-2008. Winners will be judged on the basis of most innovative ideas and business plans in India and Kenya.

19.11.2007 There is nothing official about it. Yet, the ban on grazing imposed by local farmers in some villages of Ahmednagar in the Indian state of Maharashtra has led to remarkable results.

19.11.2007 Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank, says Bangladesh will eradicate poverty by 2030 and wants India to take up the challenge as well. On a recent visit to India, he spoke on the bankÂ’s role, poverty museums, and issues close to his heart.

16.11.2007 A new cash prize will award print and web reporting on tuberculosis and the resistant strains of the disease in developing countries.

16.11.2007 Learn how cities can do more with better management of water waste that gets generated everyday. Delhi based Centre of Science and Environment is conducting a course on waste water management from January 14-17, 2008 at its New Delhi premises. Registrations are now open.

15.11.2007 Forced to flee from their homes, the villagers of Nandigram now only want to be left in peace. The recent upsurge of political violence in this East Midnapore area in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal uprooted thousands now living in relief camps.

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14.11.2007 IndiaÂ’s affluent, comprising 1% of its people, produces carbon emissions 4.5 times that of the poor and double the global average, reveals a new study by Greenpeace. The increased consumption of electronic devices, vehicles and air travel by the consumer classes are responsible for the great carbon divide.

14.11.2007 Watch Gudia, an eight-year-old Indian girl in Jammu, scavenging engine oil at an auto workshop. A slide show by Reuters.