By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 5, 2022: Food rights activists want India to take urgent steps to solve a nutritional emergency facing the country. They endorsed the findings of a survey that showed millions of Indians dying every year because of diseases directly linked to poor diet. “The countryContinue Reading
New Delhi: A parliamentary panel on June 22 asked the Ministry of Women and Child Development to conduct a survey on the impact of the pandemic on anganwadi services and malnutrition levels among children. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports chaired by Rajya Sabha MPContinue Reading
New Delhi: India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has been advocating vegetarianism on grounds of religion and ideology, the latest being an effort by Indian Railways to enforce vegetarian menus on all trains on October 2, Mohandas Gandhi’s birthday. However, around 80 percent of Indian men and 70 percent ofContinue Reading
I dream of a society with no menace of malnutritionContinue Reading
The ongoing conflict in Yemen was singled out by Pope Francis during his speech to Vatican diplomats at the beginning of the year. Speaking of the need for dialogue and calling for courageous gestures, he urged international leaders to foster reconciliation in Yemen, one of the Arab world’s poorest countriesContinue Reading
New Delhi : Taking suo motu cognizance of media reports about the death of 600 kids from malnutrition this year in Palghar district of Maharashtra, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday issued a notice to the Devendra Fadnavis government. The Commission has called for a detailed report ofContinue Reading
A recent survey showed a third of 83 kids between 5 and 12 years suffered from malnutritionContinue Reading