A focused effort over the next decade is essential to meet the desired goals in production of millets in India, says Vishala Reddy Vuyyala,...

The piece questions whether a state agency like the National Institute of Nutrition should dictate the content of traditional foods, arguin...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has urged ITC Chairman Sanjiv Puri to deploy a team to Karnataka for sourcing Sri Anna millets from dro...

India held its first mega-global event Global Millets (Shree Anna) Conference in Delhi to celebrate 2023 as the International Year of Mille...

"The government is celebrating the international year of Millet. In G20 meetings we have planned to bring Millet into the diet. It is nutri...

The ministry is also organising a 'Millets Smart Nutritive Conclave' on Monday wherein stakeholders of the supply chain such as Farmer Prod...

It has started formulating a five-year strategic plan for the promotion of millets and value-added millet products in the international mar...

As urbanisation increases in India, fuelled by climate change, such problems of nutritional deficiency, like the child stunting that NFHS-5...

As the implementing partner of the Government of India's flagship school feeding programme, the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, Akshaya Patra serves o...

The partnership is expected to empower over 70,000 farmers through 150 FPOs across five states -- Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra P...

Less than a third of India's 'aspirational districts' - those with poor socio-economic indicators have been affected by the coronavirus.

A release from NIRDPR said: "It provides Social and Behavioural Change Communications (SBCC) to State Governments as well as to Central Gov...

The Union government has drawn criticism earlier for deciding to hold Digital India Day on Good Friday and Good Governance Day on Christmas.

All 15 States/Union Territories have rates below 51 deaths per 1,000 live births, although there is considerable variation among the States...

Less than fifty per cent of the Anganwadi Centers (AWCs) in the country have toilets, according to Women and Child Development Ministry.

The absence of a national programme to fight malnutrition denies such a platform, and results in an information void on what interventions ...

Modi today launched the 'Gujarat State Nutrition Mission, offering financial aid to village panchayats to combat malnutrition.