Full coverage: India

29.06.2005 Sonia Gandhi has launched the latest stage of the Indian government's large-scale open source initiative.

29.06.2005 One of the worldÂ’s largest economies, India has made enormous strides in its economic and social development in the past two decades.

29.06.2005 The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has developed DEV INFO INDIA, a database for the collection, compilation and transmission of data on selected social indicators.

28.06.2005 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services without any entry and licence fee.

28.06.2005 E-governance centres in all subdivisions of the Kangra district will soon be made functional

27.06.2005 Dowry is the most commonly discussed social issue amongst women in the Nabanna network , a UNESCO supported initiative that has been working with local women in India to identify information needs and appropriate materials

27.06.2005 With some 400 floppies and 300 compact discs prepared by students as part of their project, the Institute of Community Medicine in Madras Medical College has enough data to run its web site, www.icm.tn.gov.in.

27.06.2005 The telephony industry has two major players—GSM and CDMA —who are always ready to take to the field like Mohan Baghan and East Bengal are to the soccer on any issue.

27.06.2005 Madrassas have all along remained the preserve of men but this one has broken new ground.

27.06.2005 Noted Indian scientist Prof. MS Swaminathan in this opinion piece for Chennai-based newspaper The Hindu says that among the serious problems confronting them, farmers see access to water, credit, technology, and market as the most important.

27.06.2005 V. Sankara Narayanan, the Director of Tamil Virtual University, has called for
"localisation" in e-governance and services, and provisioning of information
in local language.

26.06.2005 The Global Forum event was not only the first event for GeSCI to
co-host but it also signified the next stage in GeSCI's work in two of our priority countries.

24.06.2005 Red Hat Scholarships is the first ever open source program of its kind in the world designed to encourage young talent and spread the open source philosophy that has created world class software like Linux, Apache and many other programs.

24.06.2005 Service Facilitation Centre (SFC) started as a Single Window application in the Office of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Udaipur, South Tripura on July, 2000 and serviced about 66,000 Citizen Request till August, 2003.

24.06.2005 Madhavi was bathing her two year old son when giant tidal waves swept them both out of their home. As she tried to run away from the foaming waters, her little son was swept away while she found herself dragged down into the sand. The fact that all this happened in a minute has so confused her that she refuses to accept reality, and her current status of a destitute bereft of all kith and kin.

24.06.2005 Public access points have contributed significantly in extending the access to and outreach of information and communication technologies to common people though mostly in urban areas. In developing countries such shared facilities provide access outlets outside the office and home model of Internet access.

22.06.2005 Banned from broadcasting news since February's royal coup, Nepali radio reporters gather every evening on a roadside in Biratnagar,east of Kathmandu to listen to Keshav Bhattarai read out the news from an open air studio on the roof of a narrow, three-story building.

22.06.2005 Agricultural scientist and chairman of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), M.S. Swaminathan, has stressed that quality literacy should be available for the people, particularly the younger generation as it would ensure safety for them.

22.06.2005 Scope e-Knowledge Centre, a global knowledge services company based in Chennai has won the Service Provider of the Year-2005 award of Britain's Data Publishers Association (DPA).

21.06.2005 People around the world followed through the different media the daily developments of the tsunami tragedy and stories of those directly affected.