But level of hunger remains at ‘alarming levels’, says report

India has improved its ranking from 65 to 63 in the Global Hunger Index, making a marginal improvement since 2012, but continues to languish far behind other emerging economies. The score for the country improved slightly from 22.9 in 2012 to 21.3 this year. As has been the trend, within SAARC countries too, India continued to trail behind Pakistan and Bangladesh on the index.

Encephalitis claimed four more lives while 17 new patients were admitted at BRD Medical College in last 24 hours.

FORBESGANJ: Encephalitis has so far claimed three lives at Rahriya-Kosi tola of mahadalits in Simaraha police station area under Forbesganj subdivision in Araria district, triggering widespread con

A new vaccine will help, but will not defeat malaria. On October 8th researchers announced progress in developing a vaccine against malaria.

The state has shown a decline in the infant mortality in rural are a sover the past three years, but it has remained the same in the urban areas.

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will soon be starting the survey covering 4 lakh non-slum families of the city to include in the E-mamta scheme.

A vaccine against malaria could be introduced in the world’s worst-hit countries in 2015, after the latest trial of a treatment produced by Britain’s biggest drug company reduced the number of case

Narendra Modi's government in Gujarat has countered the CAG's opinion that 66 per cent of children in the state are underweight and claimed that this figure has declined to less than 26 per cent in

Climate change may increase the incidence of diarrheal disease in Botswana, according to a recent study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Every third child in Gujarat is underweight, stated the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in its performance audit of the implementation of the Centre's Integrated Child Development Se