Vedanta Resources CEO Anil Agarwal met with Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds, who expressed interest in the Indian mining company's Nand Ghar ...

In a country like India with 136 crore people, whose dietary system is predominantly carbohydrate-dense, ensuring the availability of natur...

The neighbouring Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan too are in the 'serious' category but ranked higher than India in this year's hunger inde...

The study examined 13 sectors — from mining and agriculture to construction and retail — in 19 countries. The greatest productivity losses ...

These deaths arise from the vast geographical distribution of diseases like dengue and from extreme weather events, like heat waves and flo...

Climate change is likely to kill 250,000 more people each year by 2030, latest assessment by the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows. Mos...

NGO CRY today initiated a campaign to reach out to over 2.5 lakh children to raise awareness about their rights.

The prevalence of obesity rose in every single country between 2010 and 2014, and one in 12 adults worldwide now has Type 2 diabetes, it sa...

The strategies or policy interventions available to resolve malnutrition are not being implemented due to lack of money, skills, or politic...

According to the study, a total of 56 per 1000 children die before their 5th birthday, and 47.9 percent of children under the age of five a...

More than half the households among the poorest five per cent of the rural population had calorie intake below 2,160 Kcal per day, the Lok ...

As per the analysis of manifestos of 10 major political parties by CRY, only five have mentioned malnutrition in their manifestos.

Panel has asked the govt to come up with a time-bound action plan to reduce under-nutrition.

FM also commended the ICDS for being able to spend the entire amount of Rs 15,850 crore provided in 2012-13.

Terming malnutrition as a major threat to social and economic development, the Economic Survey today stressed the need to modify the existi...

The Rs 2,700-crore Britannia now sells roughly 50% of its biscuits fortified with vitamins and micro-nutrients, with focus on bolstering th...

The World Bank has announced a health project for poor ethnic minorities in remote Vietnamese mountain regions, backed with an 11.45 millio...