BANGALORE, INDIA (AP): On remote heights of the Himalayas, awe-struck women from yak-herding tribes sit in front of computers for the very first time. In a farming region, poor village women step into video e-mail booths to send messages to their husbands working in faraway cities. State officials have set up 40 such information centers in remote areas, each with six computers and a direct satellite link. Villagers in some areas can access crop prices, land and health registers, complain to the government and even check horoscopes of prospective brides and grooms.
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