Two girls are sitting on the ground in a classroom devoid of desks and chairs and listening in rapt attention to their teacher. This scene from a school in India is on the cover page of the 2008......
Warning that the risk of another tsunami hitting is real, a top United Nations official has called on the Indian Ocean countries to "really" commit themselves to setting up an early warning system......
Faiz Ahmed, 12, had travelled from Kargil in the militancy hit state of Jammu and Kashmir to question the heads of two important UN bodies in New Delhi. "What are you doing for the education of......
As the country embarked upon setting up new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and central universities, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday......
The global financial crisis sweeping through Wall Street and the European banking sector will touch the lives of the world's most vulnerable, push millions into deeper poverty and lead to the......