-The Hindu Ignou's dual talk leaves students in the lurch Nobody would have thought that in less than two years of setting up of the first Indian Sign Language Research & Training Centre (ISLRTC) for the hearing-impaired, plans would be afoot to shut it down. But that is what seems to be happening at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) campus here. Vice-Chancellor M. Aslam categorically told The Hindu that there was...
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40% of global population now online; women catching up-Shalini Singh
-The Hindu 750 million homes online; 16% less women on the Web than men While India inches towards 13 per cent Internet penetration with roughly 160 million users, nearly 40 per cent of the global population or 2.7 billion people are already online in 2013, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). In the developing world, 31 per cent of the population is online compared to 77 per cent in the developed world....
More »India lags South ASIan peers in protecting poor
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Large numbers of poor and vulnerable are exposed to risks and unexpected difficulties like unemployment, ill health, and natural disasters, an ASIan Development Bank ( ADB) study says, because of lack of adequate social protection systems in many fast-growing middle-income countries in ASIa and the Pacific. The Social Protection Index: Assessing Results for ASIa and the Pacific-released on Wednesday gives India a score of 0.051, below most...
More »German journalist deterred from visiting Kudankulam protest site
-PTI Tirunelveli: A German woman journalist and her colleague have been detained for trying to proceed to Idinthakarai, the hub of protests against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, and record the views of the locals, police said. The South ASIan Correspondent of a German radio network and her male colleague, who were detained yesterday, planned to air a programme on the protests against KNPP. They would be allowed to go to the...
More »Finance Ministry seeks aid from World Bank, ADB to rebuild Uttarakhand
-PTI The Finance Ministry has sought financial assistance from World Bank and ASIan Development Bank (ADB) for rebuilding of damaged infrastructure in flood- ravaged Uttarakhand. "In view of the emergency situation, both ADB and the World Bank have been requested to fast track the processes of needs assessment, project preparation and approval," the Finance Ministry said in a statement. It said a joint mission of the World Bank and ADB, led...
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