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Diarrhoea and Under-5 Mortality -Aditya Gulia and Varshita Agarwal

-The Wire Science The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development set 17 goals – from healthcare and education-based outcomes to social goals. The third of these calls on countries to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages”. One of its sub-goals aims to “end preventable deaths” of newborns and children younger than five years. This is crucial for India because some 26 million children are born every year in India;...

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Severe malnutrition or wasting, ‘excruciatingly painful’ threat to child survival

-United Nations News Severe malnutrition, also known as severe wasting, is one of the top threats to child survival, yet perhaps one of the least known or understood, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Severe Wasting: An overlooked child survival emergency, details that around one in five deaths among children under age five, can be attributed to severe wasting. Triggered by a lack of nutritious food...

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2 dead, over 61 taken ill after suspected food poisoning from traditional feast in Odisha -Mohammad Suffian

-IndiaToday.in Two people have died and sixty-one have fallen ill after suspected food poisoning from consuming a traditional feast in Odisha. Ganjam: At least two people have died and over 61 have been hospitalised in Odisha after suspected food poisoning. All of them had started showing symptoms following a traditional feast. The deceased were identified as Santosh Gaud(32) and Budhia Gaud(53) of Bakharakata village. All the sick villagers have been shifted to Dharakote Community...

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Value in the weed: Profit potential of green and leafy bathua -Vibha Varshney

-Down to Earth Bathua is in demand for its nutrition and taste. Improved varieties of the weed can make it popular among farmers Come winters, and vegetable markets in Delhi are flooded with varieties of leafy greens. Among these vegetables is one hitherto unwanted weed, foraged from wheat fields. Commonly known as bathua in Hindi, cheel bhaji in Gujarati, paruppu keerai in Tamil, chandanbethu in Bengali and vastuccira in Malayalam, this weed is...

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The State that failed -MG Devasahayam

-The Telegraph As the most inequitable country in the world after Russia, today's India is indicative of this fact The Union ministry of women and child development protested against the downgrading of India from 94 to 101 on the Global Hunger Index, 2021. According to the ministry, the proportion of undernourished population given in the report is “devoid of ground reality and facts, and suffers from serious methodological issues”. The ministry is protesting...

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