BHUBANESWAR: Climate change will not only have a single manifestation of rapid and unpredictable temperature rise, but also has tremendous impact on agriculture

NEW DELHI: Lashing out at the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government for price rise and spread of hunger and malnutrition in the country during the past five years, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday said data now showed that India was the "hunger capital of the world."

NEARLY five lakh children lose their eyesight each year in the country, said AR Ansari, CMD, Neyveli Lignite Corporation, while inaugurating Dr Agarwal

More than 39 lakh children in Madhya Pradesh suffer from malnutrition and ten districts have been identified as malnutrition-affected, Minister of State for Women and Child Development Ranjana Baghel told the Assembly today.

UNICEF has brought 60 MT of supplementary food (Unimix) to Jaffna, to be distributed to 4,500 moderately malnourished children (including those in the new IDP camps) in the Jaffna District over the next six months, the joint humanitarian update released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

World Food Programme report says India tops world hunger chart