Governance And Institutions
Hazare's plea admitted
A sessions court addmitted a revision application moved by Anna Hazare against the order of a lower court convicting him to three months' simple imprisonment in a defamation case filed by Maharashtra's social welfare minister Babanrao Gholap.The sessions judge, Abhay Thipsay, issued notice to Gholap and called for the records …
Habitat award
Delhi's Joint Commissioner of Police Amod Kanth was given the Sulabh Habitat Award--1998 for his work among the street children of Delhi which led to the setting up of the organisation, Prayas.
Conservatory of rare plant species developed
To create awareness about the plant species on the verge of extinction, the Ministry of Environment and Forests is bringing out a rare publication, Flagship Species of India. It has also sponsored the setting up of a conservatory under the aegis of Delhi University where 100 such species are being …
China seeks Indian NGO help in rural development
Something during the second week of May, while the defence minister, Mr George Fernades, was carrying out his campaign against China, the Chinese minitry of science and technology in Beijing decided to invite an Indian non-governmental organisation to carry out a social reformation programme in the country. The NGO, Actioned …
Anna Hazare withdraws fast
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has withdrawn his 11-day fast in public interest after his release from prison, according to his lawyer in the Ebabanrao Gholap case.
MP govt stops aid to NGOs after adverse reports
Home minister Harbans Singh informed the state assembly on Tuesday that financial assistance to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the state had been stopped following adverse reports against NGOs during the last one year.
The other government in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is probably the world leader in non-governmental organisations, NGOs, perhaps because economically it is near the bottom of the heap. The 20,000 or so NGOs there operate mainly in the country's 86,000 villages, providing education, health, small loans and agricultural development far more efficiently than the corrupt and inefficient …
Many NGOs worry over cuts in EU funds
Hundreds of humanitarian and human right organisations have seen donations from the European Union - the world's largest aid donor cut off over a legal hitch. Many of the groups will have to close or curtail programmes unless a solution can be found when the European Commission, the European Council …
Good fuel can check bad air
The availability of good quality fuel could go a long way in checking vehicular pollution, according to the Central Pollution Control Board. CPCB sources said the quality of the fuel, with reference to its physio-chemical properties, affects the emission character of the engines.
'Illiteracy highest in india '
The number of illiterate people in India will be the highest in world in the 21st century and there is a stupendous need to enhance the standard of eduction in this country.
Union fears sheep dips poison shearers
Dozens of Victorian shearers may have been unknowingly poisoned by a chemical linked to the manufacture of nerve gas, unions say. The Australian Workers Union is contacting shearers who think they have been exposed to the chemical diazinon, found in many sheep dips. Mr Bill Shorten, AWU organiser, said many …
Greens root for a cause in concrete jungle
If the SNDT campus at Santa Cruz boasts of a bakul avenue, Dadar's Parsi Colony has a green canopy and Chowpatty has a little grove, it is largely bacause of the efforts of the Friends of Trees (FOT). The voluntary organisation has been planting, preserving and protecting trees with missionary …
NGOs bring warmth to cold Ladakh
A dozen foreign funded voluntary organisations are aiming to change the lives of the people in Ladakh. And if their initial efforts at ecological perservation, illiteracy eradication and health education are any indication, then those Leh-based NGOs are sure making an impact.
Five grassroots workers honoured
Five Nepali grassroots conservationists have been awarded the prestigious Abraham Conservation Award 1998 by WWF. The Award was set up in 1995 by Nancy Abraham's WWF-US.
Rehabilitation for dam oustees
About one lakh people to be displaced on completion of the Punasa dam across Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh are likely to get the rehabilitation package on the lines of that received by the oustees of Sardar Sarovar Project.
NGOs' plea to Sinha on tax treatment
Representatives of several non-governmental organisations met the Union Finance Minister Mr. Yashwant Sinha, and pleaded for more favourable tax treatment of the non-profit sector in the forthcoming Budget. They also conveyed to him their apprehensions about the negative impact of some of the proposals incorporated in the Income Tax Bill. …
- MP people get right to information
The MP assembly has adopted a Bill giving right to information to the citizens of the state. Piloting the Bill which was later passed, parliamentary affairs minister Rajendra Prasad Shukla claimed that MP was the first state in the country to give such a right to its citizens.
- Bill on primary education being looked at afresh
There is a serious rethink by the Human resource development (HRD) ministry to go ahead with the the pending Constitutional Amendmant Bill making free and conpulsory elementary education a fundamental right.
Russia to put Mir out of its misery
Russian space officials are preparing the old, frail and forgetful Mir spacecraft for an assisted suicide. A top official at RKK Energia, the company that built Mir and oversees it, said that cosmonauts on board would begin to maneuver it into a lower orbit in May, the first step in …
- Sanjay is still alive and in Ulfa custody, feels wife
Four days after the reported "discovery" of the abducted social activist, Sanjoy Ghose's mortal remains from Majuli in Assam, his wife Sumita latches on to the belief that he is in custody of the United Liberated Front of the Assam, alive.
