Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
At its request, Spices Board was permitted to undertake development of vanilla and is engaged in this endeavour to add another item to the spice export basket. It has only few exclusive vanilla related programmes and they are supply of subsidized planting materials and on farm curing aids.
The state quality watchdog announced it discovered the cancer causing Sudan I in 88 kinds of food and food additives produced by 30 domestic companies. The State Administration for Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine made public a list of contaminated foods and their production on its Website. The inspection was …
In a fresh assault on bacterial contamination of food, some major U.S. meat processors have embraced a high-pressure processing technique that they say makes cold cuts, fruit and other edibles safer without affecting taste. Hormel Foods Corp., Perdue Farms Inc. and others are dunking prewrapped foods nto tanks of pressurized …
Pakistan Minister for Education and former director-general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Javed Ashraf Qazi on Wednesday said the UN World Food Programme (WFP) would provide $51.6 million assistance to government to encourage about half a million girl students to stay in schools. The minister said this while inaugurating an art …
The indigenous people from the Saharia tribe constituting a small minority of the rural population in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh now find themselves caught in a process of transition that has created huge gaps in terms of food security and livelihood needs. Newri village, falling under the Badauni Panchayat …
An Act to make provision for prevention of adulteration of the food. This Act may be called the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954. It extends to the whole of India. It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, …
The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food security and the evolving constitutional doctrine that public welfare is a core obligation of the state. IT could be coincidence. Or it could be the case that committed public interventions …
More than 100 countries endorsed a campaign to raise an additional $50 billion a year in development aid to combat global hunger, but US poured cold water on the project. "The greatest scandal is not that hunger exists but that is persists even when we have the means to eliminate …
The National Human Rights Commission has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary to examine and respond to a complaint alleging deaths of 18 tribal children in sonebhadra district to the hunger.
On per capita basis, Delhiites are supposed to get more water on daily basis than consumers in developed countries like France, Germany and United Kingdom. According to the Delhi Jal Board, the Capital's consumers are supplied 225 litres of water per capita per day compared to an average supply of …
This is one of the most famous reruns of the poverty and starvation script that is being screened on the stark canvas of Kalahandi, Bolangir and Nuapada. The characters are the same, the original star cast of 1985, included Phanas Punji, a 30 year woman, sold her sister-in-law to buy …
The world is not watching, but more than 12 million Ethiopians risk starving to death if there is no extensive mobilization of aid to prevent a famine, a senior United States official said. The official, Tony Hall, the American ambassador to the United Nations food agencies, said many people were …
Food safety is a concern for scientists, policy-makers and consumers especially as food poisoning outbreaks are becoming more common and as particular concerns arise over genetically modified foods. This book covers recent developments in the chemistry, biochemistry and physiological effects of toxicants that might have an impact on human health …
Barely 10 weeks after India announced its first-ever donation through the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations' largest humanitarian agency has arrived at a partnership with global clothes brand Benetton to market world hunger and encourage similar, badly-needed food contributions from new donor governments.
The government's move to adopt World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines on standards for bottled water amounts to buckling under pressure from the Rs 1,000 crore domestic water industry and to lowering of health parameters as the UN body is mum on the presence of several pesticides, the Centre for Science …
Food and civil supplies minister Ramalingareddy has said that 46 lakh green cards will be distributed to beneficiaries within May 1,2003. Besides, foodgrains were being distributed to the public under public distribution system (PDS) under government schemes, he said seeking cooperation of the people in this regard.
Musahar, a deprived ethnic community at Gothauli of Ratnanagar Municipality 5 (Nepal) is reeling under harsh situation of starvation for the past two months. Banned from fishing their ancestral vocation, the community of 17 households is in dire straits with hand to mouth problems.
