Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Doubt has been cast on a much-lauded method of disinfecting water using only sunlight, after a study found that it doesn't reduce diarrhoea among children in families using the technique. Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS), a low-cost water purification method that uses only sunlight to disinfect water, is currently used by …
New Delhi: The human resource development ministry has proposed major changes, like linking the cooking cost to the price index of food items, in the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme so that it runs smoothly. Linking the cooking cost to the price index will mean that the amount spent per meal …
The last time the prime minister bent too far to keep the coalition going WHEN the United Progressive Alliance (upa) was looking for partners after the 2004 general election, anyone was welcome. But has better judgment prevailed this time around? The coalition could ask itself this as it clears the …
The government on Wednesday confirmed the presence of deadly chemical diethylene glycol in the paracetamol syrup produced by Rid Pharma, but said the probe body did not investigate the death of 24 children apparently caused by the toxic syrup. It will file cases against the company and its owners on …
The Education Department would shortly appoint a nutritional officer to check the quality of the food served and evaluate the nutritive value of Midday Meals on day-to-day basis, declared Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate on the floor of the House on Wednesday. Speaking in response to Calling Attention moved by Fatorda …
London: A British court has ruled in favor of a group of young people who say pollution from a former steelworks contributed to their birth defects. Eighteen claimants aged between nine and 22 sued a local authority, claiming their mothers were exposed to what one expert called an
Controversies surrounding the midday meal scheme have prompted the state to consider handing over the job of preparing and distributing food among schoolchildren to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) and NGOs. Iskcon is already in charge of midday meal in Bangalore, Karnataka, on behalf of the state government …
Delhi schools will now study the history of swine flu and how the strain mutates. Power point presentations on the pandemic prepared by officials from the Health department will be making their way into schools. Schools have been doing their bit to contain the spread of the H1N1 virus by …
Twelve more persons tested positive for swine flu on Tuesday. Two more schools reported one case each, taking the number of affected institutions to six. The count of confirmed cases in the city stands at 72. Several schools have gone into prevention overdrive, asking students to go through blood tests …
Pune Even as the country is in the nascent stages of adopting the new set of criteria to assess a child's growth laid down by the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently, Purandar taluka in Pune district has taken up a project of monitoring 154 children with
