The Indian government has taken umbrage at the Global Hunger Index ranking India 101st among 116 countries, below Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan, with the world’s highest child wasting rate amon...

This Vijaya Dashami, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, said his government aims to make India the strongest military power globally on its own strength. In the preceding weeks, two reports and data s...

Odisha vigilance sleuths on Tuesday conducted simultaneous raids on the houses owned by Kabita Mathan, an anganwadi worker, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. Raids revealed property worth more than a c...

Children between three to six will now get one boiled egg along with meals at least six days a week at anganwadi centres across Jharkhand under the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) of the Ce...

About 3.79 lakh Anganwadi centres do not have toilet facility while 1.88 lakh lack drinking water facility, the government said Thursday. Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani presented t...

The closure of Anganwadi centres in Jharkhand for the past six months has deprived around two-thirds of children aged between six months and three and nearly half of those between three and six years ...

Last year, Rahim Shekh of Englishbazar, Malda, was hawking pineapples. Divya and Mounika picked cotton in a Telangana village. Chand of Saharanpur sold samosas by the roadside. A year earlie...

A three-month-old infant lost his life within 10 hours of being administered with the Pentavalent vaccine at Lavagada Anganwadi Centre of Arjuwa Panchayat under Pertawar Police Station on Friday. ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the states and Union Territories to reopen anganwadi centres in non-containment zones by January 31 to ensure uninterrupted nutrition supply to children and pregna...

It is an unfortunate country in which many feel compelled to doubt the government’s motives even in a move towards improvement. In Uttar Pradesh, 500 anganwadis will be upgraded jointl...