International Food Policy Research Institute also bemoans lack of up-to-date information

India has lagged in improving its Global Hunger Index (GHI) score despite strong economic growth, according to the 2012 Global Hunger Index report released for the seventh year by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Welthungerhilfe, and Concern Worldwide. The 2012 index -- The Challenge of Hunger: Ensuring Sustainable Food Security under Land, Water, and Energy Stresses — points out that Bangladesh, India and Timor-Leste have the highest prevalence of underweight children under five, more than 40 per cent in each of the three countries.

Investments highest in solar power followed by wind energy

New investments in renewable energy and fuels reached $257 billion worldwide last year, with India logging the sharpest surge and China attracting the largest amount at $52.2 billion, says a report. In 2010, the total global investment in renewable power and fuel was $220 billion, according to the latest report of Worldwatch Institute.

The United Nations says its 2009 announcement that 1 billion people in the world were hungry was off-target and that the number is actually 870 million.

One out of every eight people in the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations' food agencies said on Tuesday, warning that progress to reduce hunger has slowed since 2007/08 when hig

STOCKHOLM: Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for work in cell programming, a frontier that has raised dreams of growing replacement tissu

India is among the countries opposed to an EU law that makes all airlines pay for carbon they emit on flights to and from Europe

Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has urged Asia Pacific regulators to oppose measures like the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, calling it "unilateral". "We would request the delegates to oppose any unilateral environment measures imposed by a state or group like the EU ETS and work with ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) to evolve global environment protection on the basis of equity and consensus," Singh told a conference of Asia Pacific aviation regulators on Monday.