Full coverage: Development

06.02.2007 Will the Sri Lankan government forego recent military gains in Tamil rebel-held areas of the island and heed the advice of donors to resume dialogue with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

05.02.2007 A curious nine-year-old Mukesh Vanzara ventured out of his home in Asarwa on September 6 last year to watch a religious procession. Still in his school uniform, that was the last his mother saw of him. Since then, it has been countless rounds to the Shahibaug police station for the poor and completely broken Vanzaras.

05.02.2007 Scientists from 113 countries issued a landmark report on February 2, 2007 saying they have little doubt global warming is caused by man, and predicting that hotter temperatures and rises in sea level will ‘continue for centuries’ no matter how much humans control their pollution.

05.02.2007 India's Toxics Link will join a large number of non-governmental organisations to call upon Governments across the globe to place a ban on mercury exports in a bid to check increasing mercury pollution at the 24th United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council meeting.

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02.02.2007 Planet Earth is doomed to be 5.8 degrees hotter ninety years on, according to the intergovernmental panel on climate change.The panel's full report will contain the biggest warning yet of a rapidly changing world.

02.02.2007 President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam asked the medical fraternity, particularly the medical students, to reach out to the rural areas and ensure that the poor could access timely and quality medical care.

02.02.2007 Ante el vertiginoso desarrollo experimentado en los últimos años por la provincia de Guanacaste al calor del turismo, en poco tiempo allí podría imponerse el inglés como idioma principal, la posesión de las tierras estaría en manos de extranjeros -principalmente estadounidenses-, y sus tradiciones culturales pasarían al baúl de los recuerdos.

01.02.2007 It has become a cliché to say that there are two countries, India and Bharat. And yet, it is a truth whose full significance is being experienced and digested only as the multifarious processes of a globalised capitalist economy unfold in the two countries.

01.02.2007 A 12-day uprising by Nepal's 'madheshi' (plains) people has forced the revolutionary government to promise it will change the state structure to more fairly distribute power to excluded groups.

01.02.2007 The first Education for All (EFA) goal calls for ?expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education (ECCE), especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children?. Enrolment in ECCE programmes has tripled since 1970, but access remains limited in most developing countries. Children most exposed to malnutrition and preventable diseases are least likely to have access.

01.02.2007 In Nepal non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are contributing to the eradication of child labour through education, but support is minimal. Coordination is poor so that the most vulnerable children are not identified and prioritised for support.