Full coverage: Development

17.08.2006 With the Nepal government and Maoist rebels agreeing to begin the process of arms management, all eyes are now focused on the United Nations to manage a difficult and touchy issue in Nepal's peace process.

17.08.2006 While a major international conference on HIV/AIDS opened Sunday in Canada with a message to help those affected by the disease, on this side of the globe, in Burma, the ruling military regime moved to arrest sufferers and campaigners.

17.08.2006

icds centre

Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) as an entitlement and played instrument, to secure children's right to food. ICDS includes immunisation, supplementary nutrition, health and nutrition education, growth monitoring, pre-school education and referral services. In States like Tamil Nadu, its functioning has yielded positive results but is uneven in other states across the country. It is the only programme that extends from pregnant women and nursing mothers to cover infants and children up to the age of six. Its role as an instrument to secure children's right to food cannot be overstated.

16.08.2006 Los panameños de todos lo sectores sociales y políticos, alientan grandes esperanzas con respecto a la potencial contribución del turismo, en la generación de empleo y la reactivación económica del país.

16.08.2006 Rodeado de un clima tropical y una diversidad biológica y étnica, el Municipio de Bonanza, localizado en la Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte (RAAN) de Nicaragua, es considerado el territorio de los Sumu o Mayangna.

14.08.2006 As technology has created change in all aspects of society, it is also changing our expectations of what students must learn in order to function in the new world economy. Students will have to learn to navigate through large amounts of information, to analyze and make decisions, and to master new knowledge domains in an increasingly technological society

14.08.2006 The role of agricultural research and development is critical to enhance agricultural productivity. The decline in agricultural productivity has adversely affected India's poor, most of whom depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. The Bank launched a US$200 million National Agricultural Innovation Project to help increase agricultural productivity in the country.

14.08.2006 Couples villages of Punjab (India) clearly determining the sex of the foetus through illigal nexus of village midwives, agents, ultrasound clinics and nursing homes. The mid wives is prime means to get sex selection, who then get in touch with agents. These agents further guide women to nursing homes, which carry out female foeticide.

14.08.2006 In nepal the narrow trails carved into the steep, emerald hills that plunge into the winding Karnali River hundreds of metres below, villagers have one thing on their minds: emergency rice.

14.08.2006 Leading national and global developmental organisations have called for developing concrete measures to ensure safe labour migration across the world. This was stressed at a regional consultation organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the South Asia Regional Initiative and Equity Support Programme in the Capital where several key issues relating to the safety of migrants and natives were discussed.

14.08.2006 Death hangs over this deserted town in eastern Sri Lanka and the stench of decomposing bodies is overpowering. Most of its 50,000-odd inhabitants have fled and there is no one around to bury the dead.

14.08.2006 Education is intimately connected to one's life opportunities' besides one's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. However, the benefits of education should not be solely viewed as a benefit to oneself." These views was expressed by academician, at the third convocation programme of Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIT-A).

14.08.2006

11.08.2006 Right to information Act, 2005 has come in to force in India. With its legislation, it is said that Indian citizen has now the right to "demand information" if desired and every public authority is liable to share information.

11.08.2006 The Rajasthan government is planning to make education up to Class XII compulsory for all, State Higher and Technical Education Minister, G S Tiwari, said. He also mention that the required legislation is being drafted and would be put before the cabinet sub-committee for approval.

10.08.2006

poverty atlas

This atlas provides examples of the important uses of poverty maps, including: the ability to overlay them with maps of geographical features, agroecological zones, education, accessibility, services and so on, so as to better understand and analyze possible causes of poverty; for better targeting of resources; and for raising donor awareness of financing needs.

10.08.2006 The United States, which pays 22 percent of the U.N.'s regular annual budget of 1.8 billion dollars, has arrogantly demanded a dominant voice in management and administration -- primarily because it is the biggest single financial contributor to the world body.

10.08.2006 The Kerala Cabinet decided to ban production and sale of Pepsi and Coca-Cola in the State.Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan told mediapersons after the Cabinet meeting that the ban was being imposed as the colas contained substances harmful to health of the people. The ban might be extended to other products of the companies after due examination as they were also reported to contain such substances.

09.08.2006 The world’s young people, now numbering more than 1 billion, are a major human resource for development, and can be key agents of innovation and positive social change. Yet, the scale of youth poverty robs the world of that potential.

09.08.2006 Former Foreign Secretary, Muchkund Dubey, will head a three-member Commission that will suggest ways to end discrimination at school-level education and provide equitable quality education to students from all strata of society in Bihar.