A 72-year-old woman died on Thursday in a village in Ramgarh district, her son calling it a starvation death and blaming his joblessness during the lockdown for it.Deceased Upasi Devi’s son Jogan Na...

Hunger has forced a 26-year-old tribal woman to walk 13km under a blazing sun in search of food with her six-month-old son on shoulders — a trek that captured the helplessness of the deprived sectio...

The principal secretary of the food and civil supplies department, Arun Kumar Singh, who visited the home of suspected hunger-death victim Bhukhal Ghasi in Shankardih village late on Saturday, rebuked...

The district units of All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and 30 other organisations staged a 10-hour hunger strike from 6am across the state on Monday in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bi...

KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi’s mother, Priyada Gogoi, began an indefinite hunger strike in front of her house at Selenghat in Assam’s Golaghat district on Friday, demanding his immediate release. She s...

The Supreme Court on Monday fined several states Rs 5 lakh each for not complying with its directions to file affidavits on a PIL seeking setting up of community kitchens across the country. A bench o...

Chronic hunger has, for a while now, been made undetectable. For instance, even though pockets in Jharkhand have been reporting ‘hunger deaths’ — 21 such cases in the state made up a quarter of ...

The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) launched a 30-hour hunger strike against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Dhemaji district from 8am on Saturday.AASU activists held placards and banners and ra...

Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) continued in Upper Assam on the first day of the New Year with the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), along with other organisations, holding hung...

Hunger and gender inequality pose two key challenges as India tries to achieve the objectives pledged under the Sustainable Development Goal, a report released by the Niti Aayog said on Monday.India i...