-United Nations News Across the globe, at least one-in-three Children under-five are malnourished and not developing properly, UNICEF revealed on Tuesday, in its most comprehensive report on Children, food and nutrition in 20 years. “An alarmingly high number of Children are suffering the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them,” the UN Children’s agency (UNICEF) warned.   Around 200 million Children under-five are either undernourished or overweight,...

-IndiaSpend.com/ Scroll.in Five per cent of Indian Children are overweight and 10% pre-diabetic. Even as Indian Children continue to grapple with undernutrition, the first-ever national nutrition survey of Children and adolescents shows a growing risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease, with many showing early signs of these diseases. Almost one in 10 Children, between 5 years to 9 years, were found to be pre-diabetic and 1% were...

-The Indian Express Latest NCRB report introduces categories for cyber crimes against women, cases of insult under SC/ST Act, duration of delay in closing police & court cases ON MONDAY, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released the much delayed crime data for 2017. While it was without some crucial data categories, the data included were more fleshed out than in the 2016 crime report. The NCRB has introduced more than three...

-Frontline.in Optimal feeding of infants is fundamental to tackling the burden of malnutrition. The release of the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS 2016-2018) has renewed interest in tackling malnutrition in India. The conceptual framework for child undernutrition, developed by UNICEF, recognises breastfeeding, good complementary feeding, caring and health care to minimise disease burden as immediate underlying factors that determine malnutrition in all its forms. According to the CNNS, 35 per cent of the...

-Newsclick.in Children go hungry in India while granaries overflow and corporates get mega tax-breaks. As a child, I never liked eating liver. I would gaze at my plate for ages, as I sat ruminating at the table, well after everyone else had finished their meals. “You are wasting your food,” my mother would scold me, “while Children in Ethiopia are dying of hunger.” I am not alone. Almost all of us would...