Full coverage: Governance

16.08.2007 India plans to expand its oceanography research, tapping into the wealth of the little-explored Indian and Southern Oceans. Exploring these oceans could yield bounties in terms of information and resources. Both oceans play an important role in the formation of the Indian monsoon and could also harbour submerged deposits of copper, nickel, manganese and cobalt.

16.08.2007 After languishing for 17 years in temporary camps, some 108,000 ethnic Nepalis, expelled from their homeland in Bhutan, have a real chance to get out of the wilderness. But they are really apprehensive of about the details as the dissemination of information is needed to allay their fears who want to opt for resettlement in third countries.

14.08.2007 Nobel laureate, Indian economist Amartya Sen, in his article talks about the eve of Independence Day 60 years back and the success and failures of India in the social, cultural and economic front during the period.

14.08.2007 A research by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) – an advisory body to the Indian government and a watchdog for the informal sector – throws light on shocking levels of poverty amongst 836 million informal workers who eke out a living on a mere Rs 20 a day.

13.08.2007 Indian organisation, Toxics Link, in collaboration with IIC is inviting for a panel discussion on declining number of tigers and failed conservation efforts on 24th August 2007 at 6:30 in India International Centre, Conference Room – I, New Delhi.

13.08.2007 The Commonwealth People's Forum, organised by the Commonwealth Foundation, will take place from November 18 - 22, 2007 at the Africana Hotel in Kampala, Uganda. The registration for the largest gathering of civil society has opened up.

13.08.2007 According to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the labour force in Asia which is estimated at some 1.8 billion is expected to grow more than 200 million by 2015. The report emphasis on the improvement of the jobs and ensure equal distribution of the benefits for Asia's future economic growth.

13.08.2007 Sustainet India - a network of NGOs with long-standing experience of sustained agriculture, has launched a book “Sustainable Agriculture: A Pathway out of Poverty for India’s Rural Poor”; it includes 14 examples of successful sustainable agriculture approaches, which if replicated on a country-wide basis can provide a means out of poverty and hunger.

10.08.2007 An Indian government organization - The National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (NCEUS) – has recently completed a research which finds that almost 86 per cent of India’s working population lives on less than Rs 20 per day and do not have access to a social cover.

10.08.2007 Indian NGO National Alliance of People's Movements believes that the India-US nuclear deal has grave consequences for India’s national security and sovereignty as well impacts the rights and well-being of the Indians so demands the government to withdraw the India-US nuclear deal.

10.08.2007 Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) urges governments around the world to work on strategies that meet the challenges of global water scarcity. The call will be issued through SIWI's new policy brief, On the Verge of a New Water Scarcity, which is released with the opening of the 2007 World Water Week in Stockholm.

09.08.2007 Indian NGO, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) announces four-day rainwater harvesting (RWH) training exclusively for students of architecture and planning, engineering and environmental studies from 24 – 27 September, 2007 in New Delhi. Last date for receiving applications is September 12, 2007.

09.08.2007 The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that climate change could lead to potential food shortages and increase the risk of hunger in developing countries.

09.08.2007 According to the United Nations, the north India, Nepal and Bangladesh suffer their worst flooding in a century. Some 20 million people are believed to be affected in all three countries. The unprecedented torrential rains in also inviting diseases like malaria, encephalitis and gastroenteritis.

09.08.2007 The Chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) have given direction to the TV channels not to cover terrorist incidents which promote the objectives of the terrorists to create terror, hence asked to do it with 'time delay-filtration technology.

09.08.2007 An Indian NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) has rescued 129 child labourers from New Delhi in 2005 and filed the case in The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to register the children under the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1976. After 2 years the commission grants the issue of release certificates and asks for their rehabilitation.

08.08.2007 The Indian Minister of Communication and Information Technology has announced that about one lakh broadband enabled service centres will come up in the country by March, 2008. He added that one centre will come up for every six villages with all e-governance services.

08.08.2007 A new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) shows that the poor in Asia are lagging behind in development. The rich are growing richer faster than the poor which is also threatening the growth process in one of the most dynamic region's of the world.

08.08.2007 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in his first speech to the UN warns that the UN is a "million miles" from meeting its promises to meet MDG goals by 2015.

08.08.2007 Greenpeace has asked Surya Roshni, one of the leading bulb manufacturers in India, to stop manufacturing incandescent light bulbs. Greenpeace's Ban the Bulb Campaign calls for a progressive phase out of inefficient lighting in India to reduce energy wastage and fight climate change.