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BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...- Tamil Nadu CM Vijay directs officials to improve infrastructure of Amma Canteen, ensure quality foodTamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay has ordered upgrades for Amma Canteens across the state. The directive focuses on improving infras...
- Quote of the day by Simone Weil: 'Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than...' – French philosopher and mystic's warning on global conflict, power, energy politics and how oil drives war and the economyQuote of the day by Simone Weil: Simone Weil's observation that petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat highl...
- Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon 2025 witnesses Kenya's Alex Matata clinch men's titleUnder the initiative, Vedanta, the title sponsor, pledged to provide one Poshan Pack for every kilometre run to children at Nand Ghar, Veda...
- Dua Lipa to perform in India for Zomato concert. Date, venue and ticket price details hereDua Lipa will headline the Zomato Feeding India Concert on November 30, 2024, at Mumbai's MMRDA Grounds. Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal announc...
- UN goal of creating a hunger-free world by 2030 unlikely to be achieved: German economistNoting that without major changes in the way the world produces, distributes and consumes foods, professor of agricultural economics and di...
- Supreme Court asks Centre for starvation death data, tells it to respond to plea for community kitchensIt had granted two weeks to all the state governments and Union Territory administrations to file an affidavit indicating the incidence of ...
- View: India’s nutritional paucity exposed in two studies that need to be digestedGHI has four indicators: undernourishment, children having lower weight for their height, children having lower height than their age (stun...
- India ranks at 94 in Global Hunger Index; experts blame poor implementation, siloed approachThe neighbouring Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan too are in the 'serious' category but ranked higher than India in this year's hunger inde...
- Rs 5 lakh cost on states, UTs for failing to file affidavit in SC on PIL for community kitchensThe court had on October 18 favoured setting up of community kitchens, saying the country needs this kind of system to tackle the problem o...
- PIL in SC for community kitchens in all states to combat hungerThe plea alleged that many children under the age of five die every day due to hunger and malnutrition and this condition was violative of ...
- Zero hunger goal to kick off from October 16Though many more districts will eventually be covered under the programme which will work in sync with UN mandated Sustainable Development ...
- Gorakhpur, Koraput and Thane to launch Zero Hunger Programme on October 16More districts will eventually be covered under this dedicated farm-based programme in sync with India’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG...
- Implementing multiple schemes to address hunger and malnutrition: GovernmentThe Minister's statement assumes significance as in GHI report, Indian ranked 97 out of 118 countries. In the GHI report 2015, India was ra...
- Don't label support to Indian farmers as subsidy: Professor M S Swaminathan to WTOIt is wrong to label support given to farmers in emerging economies like India as subsidy and WTO should come up with measures to end hunge...
- By 2050, 20% jump possible in risk of hunger due to climate change: UN agencyThe risk of hunger and malnutrition could increase by 20 per cent due to climate change by 2050, endangering the lives of millions of peopl...
- Vasundhara Raje government has left tribals in Baran at 'God's mercy': Sachin PilotCongress today took on the Vasundhara Raje government in Rajasthan over reported cases of malnutrition deaths in her son's Lok Sabha consti...
- What we need is not a food security Bill but a hunger elimination actThe food security Bill will have little or no effect on malnutrition , poverty and hunger.
- Focus on malnutrition, not hungerHunger afflicts only 2% of all households, while malnutrition stunts 45% of all children below five years.
- India below sub-Saharan Africa in hunger indexDespite robust economic growth in recent years, India’s record on hunger is worse than that of nearly 25 sub-Saharan African countries and ...
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