Full coverage: South Asia

30.01.2006 The minister of industries in Tamil Nadu, Nainar Nagendran inaugurated the state government’s multimedia campaign to popularize schemes of the state government.

30.01.2006 Speakers at the seminar on ‘Access to Information and Development: Role of ICTs’ said that the targets of the MDGs and PRSP should provide more emphasis on mainstreaming ICTs for leveraging the potential of economy and society leading towards a knowledge society.

27.01.2006 A Sri Lankan robotics scientist leads an effort to get technology working for poor communities around the world. Read more on the project from Scidev.net.

25.01.2006 Much of what we are discussing today is based on information disseminated through media. So, we are familiar with the media’s role in setting off deliberations such as this one. How far they succeed in alleviating poverty is another matter.

23.01.2006 The Prime Minister of Ireland, Bertie Ahern, on Tuesday launched the operations in India of the Global e-School and Communities Initiative, a multilaterally funded organisation that supports enhancing the reach and quality of education by deploying Information and Communication technologies.

20.01.2006 The Prime Minister of Ireland, Bertie Ahern, on Tuesday launched the operations in India of the Global e-School and Communities Initiative, a multilaterally funded organisation that supports enhancing the reach and quality of education by deploying Information and Communication technologies.

20.01.2006 "The main objective of the Pakistan CDMA Forum is to create awareness, encourage dialogue and promote CDMA technology and its use in Pakistan for telecom operators, broadcasters, manufacturers, software companies, government, academia and the general public.

20.01.2006 The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration said that the rural health centres will be open 24 hours for improved medical services. According to an ICT spokesman, three female doctors and three male doctors have been appointed at Tarlai health centres.

19.01.2006 Reporters Without Borders today called on the international community, especially the United Nations, to persuade the government to rethink its plans to create a Broadcasting Authority with broad powers over radio stations, cable TV and online media, and to increase the cost of a radio broadcasting licence by at least 10 or 20 times.

19.01.2006 The Government of India and the World Bank today signed a loan agreement of US$105 million for the Hydrology Project Phase II. Mr. Madhusudan Prasad, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India signed on behalf of the Government of India.

17.01.2006 The traffic police in Bangalore have now started the process of computerising the pre-paid autorickshaw counters so that the autorickshaws can be better monitored. Two of the city's pre-paid autorickshaw counters have been computerised while a third one will be computerised in a week's time.

17.01.2006 Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum (BIJF) is the professional ICT journalist association of Bangladesh which was established in 2002.

17.01.2006 This paper looks at the conceptual and historical evolution of the role of civil society in demanding, promoting and ensuring Right to Information. It specifically looks at the role played by the civil society organizations in India in ensuring the enactment of Right to Information Act which addresses and reflects the voices of the people.

17.01.2006 Media are invited to cover ADB's 39th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors, to be held in Hyderabad, India, from 3 to 6 May.

16.01.2006 Next month, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will once again revive an initiative which has eluded policy makers for nearly five years.

16.01.2006 ne of the rarest things witnessed during the RJD regime in Bihar was the senior officials ‘arranging’ combs and scissors, apart from teams of barbers to help ensure success of Mr Lalu Prasad’s Nahao-bal kato abhiyan, a cleanliness-related programme for under privileged children living in slums and remotest villages that eventually turned out to be mere “publicity stunt”.

16.01.2006 As the controversy over the demolition of illegal structures in Delhi continues, the Union science and technology ministry has come up with a hi-tech solution — satellite imagery — to ensure that unauthorised constructions do not take place in future.

13.01.2006 It has been 90 days since the Right to Information Act came into force in the country and the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) is working hard to find ways to shroud vital information from public scrutiny.

13.01.2006 IN probably the first incident of its kind since the Right to Information Act came into force here, a lower-division clerk in the office of the Commissioner of Industries was nabbed by the CBI for seeking a Rs 500 bribe to process an RTI application.

13.01.2006 The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has stepped up efforts to go in for large scale e-governance with a total investment of Rs 100 crore during next fiscal. However, the corporation, whose annual budget of Rs 8,000 crore is more than that of Kerala as a whole, would spend Rs 70 crore for the same purpose in the current fiscal.