Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday launched the Jan Ahaar Yojana to ensure full nutritious meal twice a day to hundreds of persons at Rs 15 per meal across the city from seven Jan Ahaar Centres. Ms Dikshit inaugurated a Jan Ahaar Centre at the Asaf Ali Road.

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The US has selected Bangladesh as one of the eight 'Global Health Initiative (GHI) Plus' countries.

As part of this global initiative, the US is investing $63 billion over six years to help partner countries improve health outcomes through strengthened health systems -- with a particular focus on improving the health of women, newborns and children by providing quality health services and comba

Ranchi, June 14: Most children working in dhabas and tea stalls in the capital harbour dreams of going to school, but their poverty-ravaged families and employers discourage them, says an ongoing study being conducted by legal students of Kalinga Institute of Technology (KIT), Bhubaneswar.

One of the key demands of the Right to Food Campaign for the National Food Security Act is to re-introduce nutritious millets to government food programmes like the public distribution system. Millets like bajra, jowar, kodo, kutki and ragi among hundreds of other varieties have sustained communities for close to 10,000 years in India.

THE new National Advisory Council (NAC), which had its first meeting here on Thursday, decided to evaluate implementation of flagship programmes of UPA I.

It also decided to have food security bill, communal violence bill and tribal development as priorities apart from monitoring better implementation of existing social sector schemes.

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Thursday proposed Taka 8,149 crore for health and family welfare for fiscal 2010-11, focusing his government's pledge on cutting malnutrition, ensuring better service at the community level and growing required human resources.
"With a view to providing better health services to the people, recruitment of 6,391 health assistants has been completed during th

Ahmedabad: Launching supplementary nutritional food programme targeted at about 40 lakh beneficiaries, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi called upon the non-government organisations and society leaders to donate toys for children at anganwadis.