About 2,500 nurses working in various state government hospitals took out a rally from the SSKM Hospital in south-central Kolkata on Thursday afternoon accusing the health department of not keeping it...

The first responsibility of every welfare state is to provide food to people dying of hunger, the Supreme Court reminded the Narendra Modi government on Tuesday and frowned upon the practice of assign...

Around 3.2 million children are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in Afghanistan by the end of this year, with 1 million of them at risk of dying as temperatures drop, a World Health Organiza...

Reality bites Sir — A French queen, out of touch with ground reality, had asked citizens to eat cake if they did not have bread, only to meet a sticky end. The Bengali actor, Prosenjit Chatterj...

The Union ministry of women and child development protested against the downgrading of India from 94 to 101 on the Global Hunger Index, 2021. According to the ministry, the proportion of undernourishe...

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...

Laughter therapy Sir — An organization based in Delhi has come up with a novel way of cheering up patients in hospitals by making them laugh. Known as ‘clownselors’, the volunteers ...

India continues to perform poorly on global indices of progress and inclusion. A week after the Unesco report showing the precarious state of education in India came the 2021 Global Hunger Index&...

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...

Colourful sight Sir — The standard bookshelf is organized by subject or author, but the latest social media trend is to colour code books. While the obsessive reader often does not care how boo...