Cobertura total: India

14.05.2008 Lack of jobs and unpaid debts have led to a spate of suicides among traditional goldsmiths in southern India. The mechanised jewellery making industry has ruined practitioners of this traditional craft, leading to hundreds of thousands living in penury.

14.05.2008 The global food price rise is leading to further malnourishment among Indian children, UNICEF warns, as families reduce the number of meals in a day. India already has the worst indicators of child malnutrition in South Asia, along with 40% of the world’s underweight newborns.

08.05.2008 Hundreds of members of the remote Dongria Kondh tribe held a protest in India yesterday against plans by a British company, Vedanta, to mine their sacred mountain.

07.05.2008

07.05.2008 Members of Indian anti-poverty network WNTA met the HRD minister in the capital to present a memorandum urging the government to table the Right to Education bill in the current parliament session. WNTA campaigns to hold the government accountable to its commitments to end poverty, social exclusion and discrimination.

02.05.2008 A security think tank updates readers on recent statements made by Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama regarding Iraq, Iran, nuclear weapons and proliferation, India, and North Korea.

01.05.2008 Environmental activist Sunita Narain offers a glimpse of what the future holds for coastal towns and villages as sea waters rise at a high rate. Climate change, rising salinity in waters and intense winds are eroding and depressing land at the same time in the Sunderbans, leaving people with no ways to survival.