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...

The pandemic has inflicted multifaceted damages: unemployment, hunger, education — the list is long. The education, health and safety of children remain a subject of deliberation and concern. Fo...

Around 30 Poshan Sakhi, a group of people who focus on the nutrition needs in rural India, on Tuesday carried out a demonstration at the district headquarters of Dhanbad demanding the immediate releas...

India’s health crises are multipronged, even though the focus of policy interventions and public attention remains trained on the Covid-19 pandemic. Household surveys conducted by the Union gove...

India is busy building five-trillion-dollar castles in the air. In the meantime, less than 7 per cent of its children under two years of age get an adequate diet. The stark numbers thrown up by the Co...

A four-day training programme for supervisors and officials of Poshan Abhiyaan got under way in this Assam district on Wednesday.The training programme, to be held in two batches at the Officers’ Cl...