NEW DELHI, March 7 (AlertNet/TrustLaw) - Poor management, financial irregularities and weak implementation are plaguing India's massive state-run scheme to feed children, a government audit has found, hindering the country's efforts to fight malnutrition in almost half its child population.

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By Aditya Ghosh

MOUSINI ISLAND, India (AlertNet) – Saikh Rustam lives in a part of India where mobile phone reception is available, but clean drinking water is not. If he had to choose between them, the 52-year-old resident of Mousuni Island, at the southern tip of the country’s Sundarbans region, would take the drinking water, and food for his family of five.

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By Stella Paul

HYDERABAD, India (AlertNet) - Being a women farmer in India isn’t easy at the best of times, due to unequal land rights, a lack of training and limited access to affordable credit. Now changing climate patterns are making it even harder.

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By Marianne de Nazareth

HOSKOTE, India (AlertNet) - T. Narsimappa looks worriedly at the clear blue skies with not a cloud in sight. He is a farmer in Hoskote, a little village on the outskirts of Bangalore, and he is worried because it is the month when the monsoon normally begins in India’s Karnataka state.

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:03 GMT Source: Alertnet // Nita Bhalla

• Riots may put pressure on ruling Congress in 2014 polls

• Communal rhetoric rises after Assam violence

• Right-wing BJP may find vote-winner in riot fallout

By Nita Bhalla

NEW DELHI, Aug 20 (AlertNet) - The anonymous text message on Bhumidhar Das' mobile phone was chilling: "Muslims will attack and kill our people after Ramadan. Return home."

By Thin Lei Win

BANGKOK (AlertNet) - Asia's cities are growing at an unprecedented rate and must improve their infrastructure and become greener to keep hundreds of millions of residents safe from floods and other disasters, a report from the Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday.

Source: alertnet // Johanna Rogers

Tens of thousands of people will be without safe drinking water for months as flooding continues in India’s Assam state, making them vulnerable to life-threatening conditions such as diarrhoea and dysentery.

The north-eastern Indian state of Assam is suffering from its worst flooding in three decades. Millions were made homeless by incessant rains which have submerged most of the state and killed 117 people.

By Nita Bhalla

NEW DELHI, May 23 (AlertNet) - Ten Asian cities prone to floods, droughts or soaring temperatures are developing a set of key indicators to assess their vulnerability to the effects of climate change and improve urban planning to boost resilience.

Municipalities and environmental groups in India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam will analyse indicators such as capacity of their water supply systems, incidence of waterlogging and rainfall projections, to provide the first ever climate change-specific urban development data.

South Asian farmers helped to share "climate smart" knowledge

25 Apr 2012 10:17

By Nita Bhalla

NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - A new initiative to spread information on adapting to climate change across South Asia will encourage farmers, scientists and policy makers to share effective ways of dealing with the impacts of global warming.

South Asia is home to one fifth of the world's population and is vulnerable to climate extremes, experiencing seasonal floods, cyclones and droughts that ravage vast swathes of agricultural land each year.