Jaipur: Waging war on anemia, India has decided to remove the tag of being one of the countries with the highest number of anemic population.

Jolted by mismanagement at the Chhapra school where 23 children died after eating midday meal, the Union HRD Ministry has asked all schools to switch to new design and hygienic kitchen-cum-stores a

Health authorities reduce dose of the drug to children falling sick

A day after over 800 schoolchildren were taken ill due to intake of iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets across the state, nearly 100 children fell ill in Sirsa and an equal number of children were taken ill in Fatehabad today.

): Another New Delhi-datelined report by the Times of India published on Tuesday revealed how rotten the mid-day meal, health-care and other centrally-funded schemes are in Bihar.

At a time when the Centre is busy improving literacy rate in the country and is implementing schemes to encourage more children, especially in the rural areas, to join schools, the real picture at

Two years before the 2015 deadline, Bangladesh has achieved most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations, but the impacts of climate change pose a threat to the country

A Special Investigating Team (SIT) formed by the Bihar government Tuesday began its probe into the deaths of 23 children after they ate a mid-day meal in a school.

About 15 lakh children were administered iron and folic acid tablets in schools of 20 districts today .

The pesticide that killed 23 Indian schoolchildren last week is a nerve poison banned by many countries because of what the World Health Organisation describes as its ‘high acute toxicity’.

‘The tablet given under the WIFS programme is safe and efficacious’.