The project / organization that I steward on behalf of Asha for Education.

Quoted: Astha is a registered charitable trust that has been set up as non profit organization in 1993 to provide services to children / persons ...

How awful and completely unacceptable!!! Ahh...I can't believe my country still does this. I hope this government intervention works...But the foundation of the problem isn't being dealt with, and that is: girls are valued less compared to boys. Unless we aim to change negative social stigma about the value of women, that they are more than just a way of lessening burden once married off, we can't just pay people off. This is ridiculous. We need to redirect focus on educating women, and educating the public against things like dowries and required domesticities of women (especially in the rural areas).

Quoted: By the time you finish reading this story, 10 more female fetuses in India will have been aborted. Aborted by a medical profession that profits ...

Quoted: India has some of the hardest-working bureaucrats in the world, but its administration has an abysmal record of serving the public

India 1, drug companies, 0 --> more access to much needed AIDS and other drugs for patients in the developing world

Quoted: Drug companies can continue to make less expensive generic drugs, much of which flow to the developing world, after an Indian court Monday rejected a patent law challenge.

Indian companies provide 84 percent of the drugs to fight AIDS that Doctors Without Borders supplies to patients worldwide. They also provide more than 25 percent of other essential drugs used by the organization.

Other relief programs are equally dependent on Indian-manufactured products.

Quoted: Economist Kaushik Basu looks at how changing demographics might affect India in years to come.

Great article about India's "dependency ratio" and growth of it's working class in the next 30 yrs...anticipated to be one of largest in the world. The pyramid scheme of India's social structure will certainly begin to resemble more of a "diamond" shape with increasing middle class.

Quoted: In a consulting room at the Black Lion teaching hospital in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, a pregnant woman lies on a couch, while an ultrasound ...Although a hospital in India is part of the initial hook-up, Ratan Singh, the enthusiastic project manager stresses that this is not about providing Indian medical expertise to Africa.
What he is doing, he says, is to provide a technical platform, a means of sharing expertise, which African health services can use however they think best.

This is really a great, innovative method, utilizing simple technology, to provide better quality healthcare to millions in need. But what about improving healthcare to the millions in need in India itself?

Quoted: Ignorance about sex is widespread in the land of the Kama Sutra, where explicit sex acts are celebrated in ancient temple architecture.

it's about time India focused on sex EDUCATION as a means to prevent spread of HIV/AIDS. I hope the Indian gov't will stay strong and enforce sex ed in schools.

Quoted: Indian men cannot be trusted and their promiscuous behaviour is fuelling the country's HIV epidemic, an MP has said.

no shit. these men need to be beaten with a bat (or a pitch fork, Melissa). PS, bbc.uk really needs to get another picture for this subject. everytime i've dotted anything about HIV in India, they use this same picture...