The State of the World

This report captures a number of the good practices that emerged during the UN tsunami response in South India. The document represents part of the efforts to build and develop the UN

Dow in trouble again: The Maharashtra government has ordered setting up of a committee to look into Dow Chemical

>> Head-hunters rely a lot on social networks on the Internet, but finding information and experts is neither easy nor efficient; valuable information is left buried within online communities. A US company, SRI International, teamed up with military officers to build a new social analytics tool called iLink that generates models and helps streamline the process by which a specific expert in an

The Festival of Lights - -Diwali

An Australian report shows aboriginal children are being removed from their families at a rate similar to the 1920s. The revelation came in a report submitted to the state of Queensland. It showed that 669 aboriginal children in Queensland were in state care in 2007. Over 700 aboriginal children in the state were forcibly removed from their parents during the 1920s and put under state care,

The World Bank Group

THE final five kilometres to Ramnagar (Khokla), as the village is officially called, in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh has to be done on foot down a hill thick with shrubs and bushes. As we enter the village, eager eyes scan us for food or some other kind of livelihood support only to droop in disappointment once they learn that the wait has been in vain.

As India becomes more populous

Malnutrition in India has been called

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