Full Coverage: South Asia

29.07.2005 A study on the usage of Bangalore One centres reveals that the state government�s ambitious e-governance initiative is still suffering from birth pangs.

29.07.2005 UGANDA has been chosen to host the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA).

29.07.2005 Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Mumbai will be the Indian participant in the mammoth and first-of-its-kind 35 million rupees multi-country project called FLOSSWORLD supported by the European Union (EU) in the area of Open Source Software.

29.07.2005 Evenothough the Union territiory of Punjab is making tremendous progress in the field of information and technolgy, the disparity between the urban and rural areas still continues to be starking.

29.07.2005 People in Ludhiana will now be able to pay their central excise returns or service tax through the system of e-payment,said the Chief Commissioner Central Excise Commissionerate V.K. Garg, at a press conference.

29.07.2005 India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore, has been chosen as the India headquarters for the United Nations “Global e-school and Communities Initiative” (Gesci), a special campaign to promote the use of technology in education.

28.07.2005 The son of a prominent Pakistani human rights activist, himself a committed peace activist, was tortured and killed in November. The investigation into his death is stalled, and human rights advocates have launched a letter-writing campaign to ensure justice is done and the impunity and intimidation is brought to an end.

28.07.2005 President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed of Bangladesh has urged the people put in more efforts to create IT-knowledge based human resources and promote the prospective IT sector.

28.07.2005 As part of its initiative to ensure that benefits of Information Technology and computer education percolate down to the grassroots, the Delhi Government is all set to launch a Computer Aided Learning (CAL) project in association with Ernst and Young (E&Y), in 200 government-run schools.

28.07.2005 After Bangalore and Hyderabad in South and Gurgaon in North, Union Territory of Chandigarh is heading towards becoming a major Information Technology hub.

27.07.2005 In southern India, the state government of Kerala has announced that it will challenge the Coca-Cola company's abuse of groundwater in the Supreme Court of India.

26.07.2005 Last December's tsunami was merciless to farming communities, poisoning thousands of acres with salt and sand. But the tiny Indian village of Piryakootai--where villagers scrape off up to three feet of the salted top soil--is determined to reclaim their land and their lives.

26.07.2005 Efforts to remove toxic arsenic from drinking water in the Indian state of West Bengal are failing, according to a study published this month. Researchers from Jadhavpur University say that efforts by the Indian government to decontaminate groundwater have failed.

26.07.2005 Aiming to outline a new strategy for United Nations-backed development projects in Bangladesh, more than one hundred national experts and representatives of UN agencies wrapped up a series of roundtables and workshops today in Dhaka the capital, focused on helping the rural population to fight poverty.

26.07.2005 A toolkit to help policy makers and senior executives in developing countries on how and when to start successfully e-government projects was recently published by UNESCO and India’s National Informatics Centre (NIC) as a contribution to promote transparency in public administrations and democratic processes.

26.07.2005 On the edge of the expanding wave of Internet connectivity, Punavali Kalan is located deep in the impoverished region of Bundelkhand.Though dial-up or subscriber lines do not yet reach the villagers, access to the Web is available through a VSAT at the local community knowledge center, the TARAkendra.

26.07.2005 The youngest of three sisters, 7-year-old Lovely Khatoon keeps quite busy from daybreak onwards. The daughter of a poor umbrella-repair man, Lovely goes to school meant for small children. On returning from school, she ...

26.07.2005 As a country, we are beginning to explore the ways in which to bring all children to school At the same time we are also exploring ways in which to bridge the digital divide.Combing the two efforts will help to accelerate India’s progress towards education for all.

25.07.2005 Floods in Bangladesh have claimed 15 lives, rendered 10,000 homeless and affected over a million people. Both the Ganga and the Brahmaputra rivers have breached the danger mark, overflowing into homes and farmland.

25.07.2005 The environment-rich state in the north east of India - Arunachal Pradesh - has decided not to undertake or allow construction of any new reservoir-based mega-dams in the state.