Full Coverage: South Asia

31.05.2005 The United Nations System in Nepal, in support with its 17 implementing partners, is all set to implement its GFATM-funded-projects (Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) in six districts of Nepal.

31.05.2005 The University Grants Commission (UGC) of India is inviting public comments to its draft consultation paper “Electronic Thesis Online (India) UGC (Submission of Metadata and Full-text of Doctoral Theses in Electronic Format) Regulations, 2005”.

31.05.2005 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be the perfect vehicle through which poverty alleviation and improvements of the socio-economic structure can be easily accomplished," said Science and ICT Minister Moyeen Khan.

31.05.2005 Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, in Colombo as a special UN envoy for Tsunami reconstruction, categorically called the abduction of tsunami affected children, by the LTTE, to be trained as child soldiers, a " Horrible crime."

31.05.2005 The Second Annual Meeting of National Alliance on Mission 2007, ‘Every Village a Knowledge Partner,’ is scheduled for July 12 and 13, 2005 in New Delhi. For details of the event, contact Mission 2007 Secretariat, One World South Asia, or write to geeta.sharma@oneworld.net

31.05.2005 The National Alliance on ICTs for Basic Human Needs is the nodal agency for Mission 2007 and has released its report Steps Forward on how to take ICTs to all Indian villages for empowering the people and bringing about development in the villages.

30.05.2005 In a bid to step up efforts to prevent and cure AIDS, the government is planning to introduce a legislation in Parliament to empower AIDS afflicted people to lead a life of dignity.

30.05.2005 Delhi Police chief Dr K K Paul and Prasar Bharati CEO K S Sarma today inaugurated an audio studio in the OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) office that will provide free facilities to NGOs and local communities to produce their programmes on development-related issues.

30.05.2005 Despite being a relatively new phenomenon, information and communication technology (ICT) is making its way into the social, cultural, economic, political and governance aspects of Bhutanese society according to the department of information.

30.05.2005 The Government of India has proposed the Rural Employment Guarantee Act to guarantee 100 days employment for families in rural areas. This Act has still not been introduced in Parliament and there is a great deal of debate about it. SEWA strongly supports this Act with employment proposals more oriented towards developing the varied skills and employment potential in the villages, and the implementation decentralized and as far as possible carried out through local organisations.

30.05.2005 PRAXIS is conducting the ninth edition of the annual International Thematic PRA Training Workshop for senior and mid level development workers from 18th September to 29th September 2005 in New Delhi.

30.05.2005 Delhi Police chief Dr KK Paul and Prasar Bharati CEO KS Sarma today inaugurated an audio studio OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) office that will provide free facilities to NGOs and local communities to produce their programmes on development-related issues.

30.05.2005 The WFP is holding a global event on June 12, 2005 - Walk the World in 82 countries - to raise funds to support WFP’s global school feeding programme. Last year, the money was used to assist school feeding programme in the Sarguja district in Chattisgarh. In India, the event will take place in New Delhi and Bangalore.

30.05.2005 More than 250 scribes, mainly radio journlists, went on to streets to protest against the royal crackdown of a community radio programme production centre.

30.05.2005 In Lakhimpur Khare, a small village in the heart of Uttar Pradesh, a resident enquired about the prices of LG washing machines and TVs displayed on a website.

30.05.2005 C-DOT's latest partnership with the French telecom giant Alcatel is aiming towards reaping the seeds of innovation to revolutionise India's rural telephony through setting up a state-of-the-art telecom R&D centre.

27.05.2005 Former US president Bill Clinton's foundation will help train 150,000 doctors along with India's National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) to quickly spread anti-HIV/AIDS drugs to the maximum number among the country's estimated 5.1 million patients.

27.05.2005 OneWorld South Asia will inaugurate its studio - Ek Duniya Audio Studio - on Saturday which will allow non governmental organisations to produce development communication programmes. The studio will enable radio to be used effectively as a development communication medium and empower the communities.

27.05.2005 The 2nd National Conference on Pulses and Related Industries – 2005 is taking place on August 21 in New Delhi. The theme for this year's event will be the Indian Pulses Industry – Key Issues and Future Challenges.

27.05.2005 After long discussions for over the last few years the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) member countries, except for India, endorsed the idea of establishing a flood information network during a two-day meeting held in Thimphu recently.