New Delhi to host EU-India civil society workshop Sep 24

October 8th, 2009 ABU DHABI - A workshop was organised here to address the challenges facing the corporate world in the volatile global markets, WAM news agency reported Thursday. Seventy professionals of top companies participated in the Global Financial Markets Workshop organised by the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital.

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Australian professionals will join hands with Indian experts at a workshop in Kerala to devise ways to protect heritage sites from natural and man-made disasters. The Australian heritage workshop Oct 10 will help the Kochi-based Centre for Heritage Studies in developing management plans to minimise such damages.

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The International Commission on uclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament will hold its fourth egional meeting - for South Asia - in New Delhi on October 24. Participation in the two-day meeting will include several ommissioners, a number of Advisory Board members and some 20 xperts from around the region.

September 28th, 2009 ABU DHABI - The Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy has announced that it will offer substantial funding to civil society organisations working on social and educational development issues in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), WAM news agency reported Monday. The foundation is now seeking proposals from UAE's licensed civil society organisations to expand an existing project, launch and run a new project, or to strengthen their organisations.

September 22nd, 2009 BRUSSELS - The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will organise a "Trade and Development Workshop" at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi Thursday, EuAsiaNews reported. At the workshop, nine EESC members will be joined by more than one hundred representatives from Indian civil society organisations to discuss two main issues: the ongoing negotiations for an European Union (EU)-India Free Trade Agreement and the link between trade and poverty alleviation, focusing on employment and environment.

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ministry of Textiles and FICCI are jointly organising a workshop on 'Strengthening-Government-Industry-Consumer Partnership in Protective Textiles' on Tuesday. Over 100 delegates from various sectors like Defence, Police, Security, Regulators, State Government, Hotels, Multiplexes and industry are attending the workshop.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - BMW India announced the opening of the new showroom and workshop facility by Deutsche Motoren in West Delhi. Located at Shivaji Marg, Moti Nagar, West Delhi, this is the second facility in New Delhi from Deutsche Motoren.

August 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - "We should look through the eyes of tourists about what they expect from us," Tourism Minister Kumari Selja said here Wednesday, calling upon experts and all stakeholders to help put India on the world tourism map. "We need good hotels, infrastructure, connectivity for tourists.

August 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - We should look through the eyes of tourists about what they expect from us, said Tourism Minister Kumari Selja while inaugurating a workshop on 'World Class Tourism Infrastructure' here Wednesday. We need good hotels, infrastructure, connectivity for tourists.

August 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Karnataka Sunday demanded a Supreme Court bench at Bangalore to meet the needs of litigants in south India, while Haryana demanded its own high court at Chandigarh by bifurcating the existing Punjab and Haryana High Court. The varied demands raised by various states during the daylong annual conference of the chief ministers and chief justices of states Sunday also included Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's demand to prioritise among various categories of civil and criminal cases and tackle the ones with serious implications for the society at the earliest.

August 16th, 2009 LAHORE - Threat from India still looms large over Pakistan, well known Pakistani journalist and Chairman Nazria Pakistan Trust Majid Nizami has said. Addressing the seventh ideological training workshop of teachers organised by Nazria Pakistan Trust, Nizami criticised President Asif Ali Zardari for saying that India no longer remained a threat for Pakistan.

August 12th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan's oldest religious party, Jamat-e-Islami's (JI) women and family wing has criticised the three-day workshop aimed at educating prostitutes to have safe sex. The JI said the workshop, which was organized by Sindh AIDS Programme, Government of Sindh in collaboration with the United Nations (UN), was against the country's culture, promoted obscenity and gave legitimacy to prostitution as a legalized profession.

July 8th, 2009 ROME - Unscathed by a reported hate campaign launched by Chinese intellectuals and civil society on a internet blogs and opinion columns on websites and other media outlets, Indian Government sources have played down the Chinese diatribe. "There are elements in China who have their own view on India's growth which is not necessarily the view of Beijing top government," said one source.

March 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The media department of the Congress is holding a two-day media workshop for the state party spokespersons and MPs here to teach them how media should be utilised in favour of the party for the coming Lok Saha polls. All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary (media) M.

February 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Members of various civil society groups Monday demanded that the Indian government pressurise Sri Lankan authorities to take steps to save lives of nearly 250,000 Tamil civilians caught in the fighting in the north of that country. 'The ongoing war between Sri Lankan government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in north Sri Lanka has posed a great danger to around 250,000 civilians, who are Tamils, caught in the midst of war,' Tapan Bose, general secretary of South Asia Forum for Human Rights, told reporters here.