A viral video of a child asking for biryani and chicken fry at his anganwadi has led Kerala's Health Minister to consider revising the meal...

The Union Minister claimed that when Gandhi was an MP from Amethi, "80 per cent people there did not have electricity connections, there wa...

He said one such scheme was the 'Poshakabalyam' project which aims to ensure nutrition of children.

The index, unveiled by the Aayog recently, shows 51.9% of Bihar’s population is poor followed by 42.16% in Jharkhand, 37.79% in Uttar Prade...

NITI Aayog's Multi-dimensional Poverty (MPI) Index listed the state as the one with lowest poverty of 0.71 per cent across India, followed ...

"About 65 per cent of India's population consumes rice as a staple food. Fortification of rice is a cost-effective and complementary strate...

The move by the states has, however, led the ministry to increase the allocation of funds from Rs 75.50 crore earmarked initially to Rs 475...

India accounts for most deaths of children aged below five years every year, with 50% of these caused mainly by malnutrition, a new policy ...

The Union IT minister said efforts were being made to digitally link around 2.50 lakh gram panchayats across the country for better health ...

The amount would be released from the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) fund, Sivakumar told reporters at Agali after attending the revi...

The Centre today announced setting up of nutrition centres there on the pattern of such facilities in Andhra Pradesh.

Gujarat Model is a metaphor and you can apply it to Tamil Nadu & Maharashtra. It also applies to Kerala in large measure, they said.

A total of 56 to 66 per cent of children in Kerala continue to be out of the ambit of 'Supplementary Nutrition Programme' implemented under...

Over 55,000 women die due to child birth in India every year. Of the total children born in one year, a mind boggling 13 lakh die before th...

UNDP survey uses composite indicator to put poverty figure at 645 million.

A higher level of performance in agriculture is necessary but not a sufficient condition to reduce malnutrition.

Despite robust economic growth in recent years, India’s record on hunger is worse than that of nearly 25 sub-Saharan African countries and ...