http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/356/ en_GB_uk India http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83906 Solar power and other renewable energy sources will get priority under India's climate action plan unveiled by prime minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi on Monday. From: The Guardian http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83897 The Indian researcher who uncovered the scandal of workers making clothes for Tesco for as little as 16p an hour will be protesting at the company's annual meeting in Solihull today. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83873 Campaigners today demonstrated outside British fashion retailer Primark’s flagship store in London amid claims that workers producing its clothes overseas face poor wages and conditions. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/160729/1/ A new Indian writing talent returns to London: Anupama Chandrasekhar. Her play, Free Outgoing, which played here in 2007, is being staged again at the Royal Court in Sloane Square. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/160723/1/ India is experiencing a growing crisis because the number of girls born and surviving compared to boys has hit an all-time low, according to an international development group. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83850 Just days after Guardian reporter Karen McVeigh won a One World Broadcasting Trust award for her story on Bangladeshi workers toiling up to 80 hours a week for as little as 4p an hour, British clothing chain Primark has axed three Indian suppliers for allegedly using child labour. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/160533/1/ The Aravind Eye Care System in India has won the $1 million Gates Award for Global Health for its work in preventing blindness and providing affordable, world-class eye care to the poor. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83711 As mining company Vedanta announces record profits today, India's remote Dongria Kondh people are claiming the company will destroy them forever if it goes ahead with plans to mine their sacred mountain. http://tv.oneworld.net/article/view/160448/1/ http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160427/1/ Members of Indian anti-poverty network WNTA met the HRD minister in the capital to present a memorandum urging the government to table the Right to Education bill in the current parliament session. WNTA campaigns to hold the government accountable to its commitments to end poverty, social exclusion and discrimination. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160308/1/ Environmental activist Sunita Narain offers a glimpse of what the future holds for coastal towns and villages as sea waters rise at a high rate. Climate change, rising salinity in waters and intense winds are eroding and depressing land at the same time in the Sunderbans, leaving people with no ways to survival. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160274/1/ Millions of volunteers will visit every household in the country in the coming years to gather information on changing demographics, in a census that will reveal how economic growth has affected its people. India’s population is expected to climb to 1.19 billion in 2011 from 1.13 billion in 2008, say officials. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83597 A new campaign has been launched targeting British company Vedanta over its plans to mine a sacred mountain in India. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160143/1/ The answer to growing traffic and pollution in the Indian capital lies in an effective and massive public transport system, says the Centre for Science and Environment. The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, recently implemented in south Delhi, provides the option for an economically sound and better bus system. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83544 Asian governments' attempts to manage skyrocketing food prices by restricting rice exports is actually aggravating food shortages in the region, says Peter Timmer in this interview.