The Global Hunger Index (GHI), a tool used by international humanitarian agencies to measure and track hunger levels with GHI scores based on under-nourishment and child mortality indicators across......
'The response from the government using words like malicious, deliberate, etc is diverting from the real issue.''The indicators related to young children such as stunting or child mortality are a......
A total of 415 million people moved out of poverty in India within just 15 years from 2005/2006 to 2019/2021, the United Nations said on Tuesday, highlighting the remarkable achievement by the......
Here's the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to a joint session of the United States Congress, delivered on Thursday. IMAGE: US Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the......
Apex child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Wednesday asked Mondelez India-owned brand Bournvita to withdraw all "misleading" advertisements, packaging and......
Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have emerged as the poorest states in India, according to Niti Aayog's first Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com As......
An analysis of Budget speeches made by finance ministers over 75 years also offers a glimpse of how low on the priority list healthcare has featured for the political class and policy-makers, which......
'I am sceptical of the Indian economy returning to a sustained high-growth trajectory any time soon.' IMAGE: A farmer works on his field during the lockdown. The agriculture sector has bucked the......
The dichotomy between richer and poorer states is largely in consonance with the diversity in state level disease burden in the country. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Patients from......
India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016, recording the fastest reductions in the multi-dimensional poverty index values during the period with strong improvements in......
'NO child deserves a life without hope for the future.' Priyanka Chopra has been spreading joy and happiness at the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. She headed to Dhaka soon after......