
12:00 pm IST I Aug 21, 2013 By Shailey Hingorani and Allison Hutchings Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Schoolchildren ate a free school lunch in Bangalore, July 19. At a conference in April, India’s Food Minister K.V. Thomas said the country would be known the world over for taking an important ..... Read More
Arvind Panagariya | May 2, 2013, 12.00AM IST The problem is likely to be less severe than UN statistics indicate, given faulty yardsticks If asked to name the state with the lowest incidence of child malnutrition in India, readers will overwhelmingly pick one of Kerala, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, ..... Read More
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Kounteya Sinha,TNN | Oct 25, 2011, 07.29 AM IST NEW DELHI: India recorded 98,621 rotavirus-inducted diarrhoea deaths in 2008, which is about 22% of global toll from the infection. Nigeria — the second worst-hit country — recorded about 41,000 deaths, or less than 50% of fatalities as compared to ..... Read More