Aid plan for India's 33m widows
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India outlines an ambitious programme aiming to help women overcome the stigma of losing their husband.
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Giving money may be the best way to provide immediate relief to the victims of the South Asia tsunami catastrophe, but it's long-term development aid that will provide countries with the greatest stability.
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A terminally ill woman's religious fast unto death in northern India causes controversy.
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The government has earmarked 15 million pounds as an initial amount while organisations associated with South Asian communities in Britain have launched respective drives to raise funds and aid material for the affected.
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Malawian widow Akice Kunkhoma  makes just pennies a day as she looks after five grandchildren  orphaned by AIDS, but she still owes the world's richest  nations $240 -- with interest.
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How you can help survivors of Sunday's Indian Ocean earthquake disaster.
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SRK, Rani Mukherjee, Karan Johar and Preity Zinta donated Rs 1.15 crore to the PM's Relief Fund for tsunami-hit victims yesterday in New Delhi.
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A South African study concludes it is the elderly, particularly women, who are bearing the brunt of caring for AIDS sufferers and children orphaned by the disease.
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About 70 percent of the money from international donors will pay public salaries, while 30 percent is expected to be used for development, food relief, and other assistance.
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Japan will provide around $30 million in  aid to countries hit by an Indian Ocean tsunami that killed  more than 29,000 people, and will send three navy vessels to  waters off Thailand to help rescue survivors.
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A combined PC, telephone and television is being used in aid projects in India.
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SRINAGAR, India -- Jana Begum squatted on the floor of her small kitchen with a friend, confiding to her how her life felt like a kind of purgatory, year after year spent waiting for a husband who had vanished shortly after his arrest by Indian security agents five years ago. To this day, Begum...
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Blind and elderly, Sibani Kar, who was found unconscious last month in the streets of India&#39;s Kolkata where she had been begging, is hoping for peace before she dies.
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Many advanced countries face collapsing populations. Making it easier for women to work may be the best way to increase birthrates.
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India's drive to adopt a western economic model is threatening those who make their living from the jungle.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on  Friday it had made available up to $325 million in emergency  lending for tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and  Maldives. The Manila-based lending institution said about $175  million could be diverted from existing projects in the three  countries, while up to $150 million in new low-cost loans could  be drawn.
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More than 500 million people can  be lifted out of abject poverty, 250 million people will no  longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if  rich countries double development aid over the next 10 years, a  new U.N.-sponsored report said Monday.