Full coverage: India

29.03.2005 All district courts in India would be connected by the Supreme Court, informed the Minister for Law while speaking in a conclave on judicial reforms.

28.03.2005 UNESCO releases two documentary films based on the findings of three of its project in India to address the issue of gender divide through innovative use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

28.03.2005 Existing youth organisations affiliated to Nehru Yuva Kendra would be provided with facilities such as computer, internet, photostat and telephone connections in 145 select districts in India.

22.03.2005 The department of consumer affairs, government of India is engaged in enabling consumer courts in various parts of the country to exchange information and data easily and quickly. This will also permit one court to refer to the decisions citied by another court in another part of the country.

22.03.2005 The department of consumer affairs, in India is engaged in enabling consumer courts in various parts of the country to exchange information and data easily and quickly. This will also permit one court to refer to the decisions citied by another court in another part of the country.

18.03.2005 India International Centre, New Delhi and UNESCO are going to hold the Transmissions and transformations: Learning through the Arts in Asia Symposium to discuss how arts can be integrated in education.

18.03.2005 The state-level e-governance projects covering land records, property registration, agriculture and municipalities are expected to get a massive thrust, with a whopping 50-75 per cent of the World Bank's proposed $500-million assistance for the National e-Governance Plan (NEGP) likely to flow into state initiatives.

18.03.2005 Multimedia software to help school dropouts in acquiring basic reading, writing and mathematics skills fast are being developed by a multi-stakeholder partnership in Andhra Pradesh. The training modules developed in Telugu aim to impart knowledge on health and sanitation to the young people aged 10 – 22.

17.03.2005 Byataranapura Higher Primary School in Bangalore has installed a single PC with three monitors with separate mouse and keyboards for each, as part of the Computer Aided Learning Centre (CALC) programme. Supported by the Azim Premzi Foundation, the initiative is testing this model to help schools in reducing the cost of computer assisted e-learning.

16.03.2005 Four women representing grassroots NGOs working in India having experience of managing ICT tools, voiced their concerns during the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) at Geneva.

14.03.2005 Gujarat government will connect over 6000 villages through computer by March 2006, under the e-gram project, informed the Panchayat Minister of the state government to the state assembly.

11.03.2005 Students of Chennai's MOP Vaishnav College have set up their community radio channel 'MOP at 91.2 FM'. The Channel will air programmes in the city every morning from 6.30 to 7.30 am.

11.03.2005 Four grassroots women representing local NGOs went to Geneva to lobby for their own space in the World Summit on the Information Society. OneWorld South Asia, a Delhi based NGO, which uses ICTs in poverty alleviation and sustainable development, has promoted the concept of creating a Grassroots Caucus for the Summit.

11.03.2005 Like Indian films, TV serials in India have became popular in Pakistan as well.

09.03.2005 Chief Minister of the Indian state of Delhi launched a web site of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) allowing women in need of help register their complaints online.

07.03.2005 Union communications and IT minister Dayanidhi Maran has recently inaugurated the ''Tele-Ophthalmology Rural Outreach Services (TOROS)”, an experiment to reach the state-of-the-art ophthalmic care to the rural inhabitants. The remote eye-care facility is piloted by the Chennai-based Eye Research Centre.