SNAP shake-up this week: New rules could change who qualifies—check before you lose outMore than 150,000 households face impact as SNAP benefits eligibility restrictions 2026 roll out with stricter rules this week. Florida has...
22 Apr, 2026, 10.30 PM IST
Life on Rs 11,000 a month in Noida: How workers survive on minimal salaries amid rising LPG prices and high rentIn Noida’s industrial belt, thousands of factory workers are struggling to survive on monthly wages of around Rs 11,000–Rs 14,000, pushing ...
19 Apr, 2026, 02.04 PM IST
Egg Float Test, Explained: The Simple Bowl of Water Trick To Check Freshness And When To Toss ItThe egg float test, a simple kitchen method, indicates an egg's age by measuring its density, which changes as air enters the shell over ti...
17 Apr, 2026, 04.53 PM IST
1 million veterans’ SNAP benefits at risk as Trump announces ‘no SNAP benefits’ until government reopens, a week ahead of Veterans dayMillions of US veterans and military families may lose vital food aid. The federal government shutdown, now a record-breaker, threatens acc...
05 Nov, 2025, 12.36 AM IST
Millions at risk as SNAP benefits may stop in November — government shutdown threatens food assistance for 41 million Americans, states urge families to prepare as food banks brace for surgeMillions of Americans could lose SNAP benefits in November. The ongoing government shutdown is putting food assistance at risk. Families ac...
23 Oct, 2025, 06.39 PM IST
Canada food crisis: One in three kids suffers from food insecurity, highest rate in 20 yearsFood assistance demand rises in Canada. Nearly 10 million Canadians face food insecurity. Children are also affected. Businesses and charit...
22 May, 2025, 09.16 AM IST
Hunger stalks Canada: A record number of people seek free foodToronto food banks saw a record 3.49 million visits this year, a 273% surge since pre-pandemic times, highlighting the alarming rise in foo...
16 Nov, 2024, 06.06 AM IST
Hunger in US continued multi-year rise in 2023, government report saysHunger in the United States reached its highest level in nearly a decade last year, with 18 million households struggling to secure enough ...
04 Sep, 2024, 09.45 PM IST
Millions more Americans were food insecure in 2022 than 2021: USDAA new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) revealed that millions more Americans, including 1 million additional household...
25 Oct, 2023, 09.01 PM IST
Scarcity of food may lead to poor mental health in children: StudyReducing food insecurity may help alleviate some mental health issues for children and youth, the researchers said.
24 Jul, 2023, 08.16 PM IST
Food insecurity, undernourishment increased in South Asia during Covid: ReportThe Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters and the Ukraine-Russia war have increased undernourishment in South Asia, making its food security...
20 Jun, 2023, 05.45 PM IST
Gender equality in farming could add $1 trillion to world economyAs per the World Food Programme, the number of people facing hunger this year is over double of what it was in 2020.
14 Apr, 2023, 09.32 AM IST
US President Joe Biden to address food insecurity at first hunger conference in fifty yearsHalf a thousand attendees at the White House's first hunger, nutrition, and health conference since Richard Nixon addressed one in 1969.
28 Sep, 2022, 09.08 PM IST
Over 6 million people in crisis-hit Sri Lanka 'food insecure': World Food ProgrammeThe economic crisis has led to an acute shortage of essential items like food, medicine, cooking gas, fuel and toilet paper, with Sri Lanka...
16 Jul, 2022, 12.06 PM IST
Rising food prices kept 8 million Indians chained to poverty: UN reportRising food prices during 2010-11 may have pushed three million Bangladeshis into poverty, and kept eight million Indians from getting out ...
20 Oct, 2012, 09.24 AM IST
- Cost of hunger in US was $167 billion in 2010: Study
The cost of hunger in the US, the world's largest economy, was $167.5 billion last year as the recession in 2008
07 Oct, 2011, 03.54 AM IST
- One in seven US households hit by hunger in 2008
Nearly one in seven US households did not always have enough food last year as the country's deep recession struck even the most basic of n...
17 Nov, 2009, 03.14 PM IST