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· ‘100 million Facebook members for Democracy in Iran’ on Facebook has 234,847 members.

· A Google search on the keywords “Iran election protests,” returns more than five million (5,740,000 to be precise) results.

· Students in Moldova used Twitter as a tool to mobilize opposition against a communist victory in Moldovian elections

The role of the social networking got extensive media coverage after the disputed election results in Iran and the following protests. Facebook, MySpace, Wikipedia,… Continue

HIV and AIDS is a major public health problem in India with an enormous impact on human resources and economy. Approximately 2.31 million people in India are living with HIV or AIDS that primarily affects young and middle-aged adults during their peak productive years (NACO, 2006).At the macro level, AIDS affects the environment in which businesses operates, including markets, investment, services, etc. At the micro level, it leads to greater absenteeism, high turnover and reduced productivity.… Continue

According to the United Nation’s Violence against children study, each year an estimated 40 million children are abused. In India, a study undertaken by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2007 revealed that 2 out of every three children reported being physically abused. Following abuse at home, schools were the largest environment where abuse was reported. 62 percent of the reported corporal punishment was in government and municipal schools. School violence takes a range of forms in… Continue

Reaction to NREGA, the flagship program of the UPA government that provides a legal guarantee for one hundred days of employment every year to adult members of any rural household do public work-related unskilled manual work at the statutory minimum wage, has been varied even among the social activists. While some have lauded it as one of the frontrunner program based on an entitlement approach, others have compared it to crumbs being thrown at the poor, finally conceding that perhaps crumbs are… Continue

According to the latest South and East Asia regional report of UNESCO Institute of Statistics, India has the highest number of out-of-school girls in South and East Asia. Almost 45 per cent of the 28 million out-of-school girls in East and South Asia are from India.

While the literacy rate has increased from 52 per cent in 1991 to 65 per cent in 2001 and the absolute number of non-literates dropped for the first time, the number of children who are not in school remained high. According to UNIC… Continue