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Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has withdrawn his 11-day fast in public interest after his release from prison, according to his lawyer in the Ebabanrao Gholap case.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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