Fighting Hunger
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Supreme Court gives final chance to Centre to frame policy on community kitchens
The court said that a welfare state has a constitutional duty to ensure that no dies of hunger.
Scroll Staff
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India’s nutrition crisis has widened during the pandemic – especially for women and children
The focus is on providing food grains to the very poor as against supporting that with more funding for existing nutrition-focussed welfare programmes.
Deepanshu Mohan, Vanshika Shah & Advaita Singh
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With 45% of Indians excluded from the food security net, it’s time to univeralise the PDS
Poverty is growing, thanks to the Covid-19 economic slowdown. It’s time for the Centre to provide subsidised foodgrains to most Indians.
Swati Narayan
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Seven firms that failed drug quality test gave money to political parties through electoral bonds
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Why the exodus from Bhutan of young people and qualified workers is a worry for India
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Electoral bonds: What we know so far, what we will know soon – and what we may never know
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Is shouting 'Pakistan zindabad' illegal? An SC order clarifies
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In Jharkhand, suspected starvation death sheds light on deprivation of a whole settlement
Chintaman Malhar, who died on June 14, had not eaten a proper meal in two days, his son said. His neighbours live just as precariously.
Swati Narayan
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Global hunger on the rise for the first time in a decade: UN report
It has affected 815 million people, or 11% of the world’s population.
Scroll Staff
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Watch: This film from Pakistan asks what happens to the unfinished food on your plate
The Urdu film is told from the point of a view 14-year-old car mechanic.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Caught on camera: Container ship hits and knocks down gantry cranes while docking at a Turkey port
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Watch: Temple in Kochi gets a mechanical elephant to perform prayer rituals
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Watch: Srinagar hosts Formula 4 car show on the roads around Dal Lake
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Watch: Scenes of damage after four coaches of a Sabarmati-Agra train were derailed in Ajmer
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Adorable animals: Playful elephant calf keeps stopping cleaner from raking leaves
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Food handouts won't solve the malnutrition problem stalking Adivasi communities
The government must empower these once proud people – now reduced to lining up for free meals – by giving them real rights to forest resources.
Brian Lobo
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Seven reasons why India needs eggs on the menu of midday meals
They're very nutritious, have a relative long shelf-life and could boost rural employment.
Reetika Khera