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12.05.2006 Seven suspected child labourers, including six girls, were buried alive under the heap of soil in Rauna village in Chandauli district, a police official said.A group of alleged child labourers, hailing from Gaya district in Bihar, were digging soil near a brick kiln when the mound caved in burying nine of them, Mughalsarai police station in-charge Ratan Singh Yadav said here

11.05.2006 Me 9 Maj në Kosovë u nënshkrua Protokolli i Bashkëpunimit mes Shqipërisë dhe Kosovës nga ministri i Punës dhe Çështjeve Sociale së Shqipërisë Kosta Barka dhe ai kosovar, Ibrahim Selmanaj.

11.05.2006 Me 12-13 Maj, për herë të parë në Shqipëri do të mbahet forumi i nivelit të lartë i Crans Montanës me pjesmarrjen e anëtarëve të qeverisë shqiptare dhe përfaqësuesve të qeverive rajonale dhe institucioneve ndërkombëtare.

11.05.2006 Yesterday, May 10, 2006, the Office of the Ombudsman of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina released the Annual Report on its activities and human rights situation in FBiH in 2005. The Ombudspersons identify the legislative branch as the greatest obstacle to the full implementation of human rights, which produces, through its inaction or adoption of discriminatory and, often, inapplicable laws, mass human rights violations.

11.05.2006 Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is seeking more private investment in higher education, educationists want privatisation to be restricted "to the minimum desirable level." Also, they have called for a tax on the industry to raise resources for higher education.

11.05.2006 The Lyari Expressway Mega Project, being constructed by Pakistan, will destroy thousands of people by rendering them homeless and without a livelihood. Nearly 11,000 houses and 3,100 commercial buildings have been destroyed since January 2006.

11.05.2006 A substantial social audit reveals that in the harsh terrain of Dungarpur, Rajasthan, where daily living poses a constant challenge, employment on public works has risen to unprecedented levels over the last two months.

11.05.2006 The Supreme Court sought responses from the Centre and the telecom department on a PIL describing the communication towers — put up at prominent locations by mobile phone service providers — as health hazards, because they emit electromagnetic radiation.

10.05.2006 Sakina's husband was the youngest among three brothers in a family. While he still lies buried somewhere in the rocky rived bed of Chappar, one of the many villages rocked by the October-8 earthquake, his brothers have pocketed the relief that came from the government. Here is Aditi Tandon's story from The Tribune.

10.05.2006 While deadlock over the women's reservation bill continues, women activists now are demanding 'gender specific budgeting' as the new way of addressing women's issues in India. "As per figures available with us, only one per cent of the total budget is used for women's issues. This trend has to be changed," says Dr.Ranjana Kumari.

10.05.2006 As Indians swelter in the first big power blackouts of summer, they have the uncomfortable knowledge it is only going to get worse in the hot months ahead in the electricity-starved nation.

10.05.2006 Nepal's new multi-party cabinet scrapped several royal decrees on Tuesday, including easing media curbs that were imposed by King Gyanendra after he sacked the government and seized absolute power last year.

10.05.2006 Sri Lanka has urged India and the international community to force the LTTE to come to the negotiation table to restore peace in the trouble torn island. The Sri Lanka Foreign Minister also asked India to use its relations with the EU to stop fund raising and other LTTE activities through the member countries.

10.05.2006 When Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil reaches Dhaka to attend the meeting of the Home Ministers of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on Wednesday, there will be too many things on his platter. He will have to use his persuasive skills to convince Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia to sign an Extradition Treaty with India.

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10.05.2006 The process of privatization of education, in the Indian context, has been full of ambiguity in terms of the yawning gap between policy and practice. The dilemma of expansion is being faced by countries like India, which in the wake of a fiscal resource crunch are confronted by a choice between limited public expansion, or expansion with a fall in the quality of education and skills.

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President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with Justice A.S. Anand

E-governance is strong tool for ensuring corruption-free administration, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said here on Tuesday. He was delivering the inaugural address at a conference on `Effects of Good Governance and Human Rights,' organised by the National Human Rights Commission. He urged that "All courts should follow Supreme Court and make judgments available online"

09.05.2006 Vcera nautro (Ponedelnik, 8 maj, 2006) Antikorupciskata koalicija distribuirase posteri vo pogolemite gradovi na Kosovo. Posterite se del od kampanjata sto ja sproveduva COHU so partnerite, a so cel informiranje na gragjanite za rizicite sto gi prezentira vladeckata korumpirana politicka struktura.

09.05.2006 At the launch of the World Banks country gender assessment in pakistan, speakers said that education is the only prescription for gender equality in the country.They said over the years female education had not been given due attention, due to which women despite having immense talent had failed to play their due role in the countrys development.

09.05.2006 On Monday morning (May 8, 2006) the Anticorruption Coalition has distributed anticorruption posters in the main cities of Kosovo. The poster is part of the campaign implemented by ÇOHU and its partners, aimed to inform the citizens about the risks presented by the incumbent corrupt political structure.