Full coverage: South Asia

29.07.2005 Evenothough the Union territiory of Punjab is making tremendous progress in the field of information and technolgy, the disparity between the urban and rural areas still continues to be starking.

29.07.2005 People in Ludhiana will now be able to pay their central excise returns or service tax through the system of e-payment,said the Chief Commissioner Central Excise Commissionerate V.K. Garg, at a press conference.

29.07.2005 India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore, has been chosen as the India headquarters for the United Nations “Global e-school and Communities Initiative” (Gesci), a special campaign to promote the use of technology in education.

28.07.2005 President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed of Bangladesh has urged the people put in more efforts to create IT-knowledge based human resources and promote the prospective IT sector.

28.07.2005 As part of its initiative to ensure that benefits of Information Technology and computer education percolate down to the grassroots, the Delhi Government is all set to launch a Computer Aided Learning (CAL) project in association with Ernst and Young (E&Y), in 200 government-run schools.

28.07.2005 After Bangalore and Hyderabad in South and Gurgaon in North, Union Territory of Chandigarh is heading towards becoming a major Information Technology hub.

26.07.2005 IT enabled education should be encouraged. The education issue should be accepted as a national challenge. Government alone cannot accept this challenge and address it”, says Shri Bhalchandra Mungekar in an interview with Manish Kumar of OneWorld South Asia.

26.07.2005 "I think that there is a role for ICT, but have we explored the extent to which that can be harnessed in education? I don’t think that there is enough discussion between education and the ICT sector”, tells Erma Manoncourt in an interview with Anupama Ramakrishnan of OneWorld South Asia.

26.07.2005 On the edge of the expanding wave of Internet connectivity, Punavali Kalan is located deep in the impoverished region of Bundelkhand.Though dial-up or subscriber lines do not yet reach the villagers, access to the Web is available through a VSAT at the local community knowledge center, the TARAkendra.

26.07.2005 The youngest of three sisters, 7-year-old Lovely Khatoon keeps quite busy from daybreak onwards. The daughter of a poor umbrella-repair man, Lovely goes to school meant for small children. On returning from school, she ...

26.07.2005 As a country, we are beginning to explore the ways in which to bring all children to school At the same time we are also exploring ways in which to bridge the digital divide.Combing the two efforts will help to accelerate India’s progress towards education for all.

25.07.2005 Pakistan donated amount of about $100,000 to develop the library resource centre of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

25.07.2005 Gandhi Media literacy programme in schools of Punjab will start from this august where the students will be trained to become future ICT (Information and Communication Technology) ambassadors.

25.07.2005 A satellite interactive terminal, (SIT), is installed at Academic Staff College, Punjab University (PU), which establishes university’s link with the UGC-CEC.

25.07.2005 A toolkit to help policy makers and senior executives in developing countries on how and when to start successfully e-government projects was recently published by UNESCO and India’s National Informatics Centre (NIC).

21.07.2005 The government aims to double tele-density by strengthening the subscriber base to 100 million lines in the next two years.

21.07.2005 The assistance provided by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) under its Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) has been successfully used for the first time to provide infrastructure in the social sector.

21.07.2005 Joint Collector of Vijayawada,Andhra Pradesh, P. Sampath Kumar called upon people to work for eradicating AIDS and building a disease-free society.

21.07.2005 Deputy Minister of Information and Media of Sri Lanka stressed the need for all sections of the media to work in unison at least in matters concerning common national issues.

20.07.2005 The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has launched an `IT workforce development initiative' to recognise the importance of human resource for the IT industry.