A senior UN official warned Wednesday of "generational" impacts in Gaza from malnutrition among pregnant women and babies, urging a surge o...

Direct Benefit Transfers (DBTs) in cash to women are rapidly expanding across states, driven by women's growing political influence. A rece...

Women in Rajasthan's Pindwara village have improved nutrition via kitchen gardens, while Chhattisgarh revived traditional crops for a bette...

A study published in The Lancet journal suggests that pregnant women who gain more weight than recommended are at a higher risk of death fr...

The Economic Survey, presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, also said that the government's spending on social services increase...

Short maternal stature, extreme poverty, poor dietary diversity and mother's lack of education are among the top five risk factors for maln...

UNICEF highlighted poor social indicators in Bihar like high incidence of underweight children, households deprived of drinking water.

Yameen Mazumder, Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Bihar, said while infant mortality rate in the country in 2013 was 40, it was 42 in Bihar.

"India must invest more in its most important resource: human capital formed at the very beginning of life," Coffey said.

Good news is that the BJP manifesto said that “extreme poverty and malnutrition will be treated as a national priority and will be addresse...

The report said that during 2008-09 to 2012-13, there were 51 maternal deaths, of which 32 were tribal women in the age group of 19-35.

MDGs are international development goals that UN member states , including India, have agreed to achieve by the year 2015.

Despite widespread poverty in the country, India is on track to meet UN's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of poverty reduction by 2015, a...

The Right to Food Act and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act are altering the landscape for human development slowly, but surely.

Calling malnourishment "a national shame", Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said India cannot hope for a healthy future with 42%...

Demanding an increase in the health budget, Save the Children CEO Thomas Chandy said children were dying of preventable and treatable cause...

China has made the biggest headway, with one in three Chinese living in poverty in 1990, compared to one in 10 today.