-Livemint.com * A ground report reveals the rural landless poor are struggling to find work, and cutting down on staple food items * The govt needs to urgently expand the food safety net as it is sitting on surplus foodgrain stocks. The rural jobs scheme needs more funding and prompt payments CHITRAKOOT/ PANNA: It is well past 2 in the afternoon, but the wall clock hanging in Seema’s bare room is stuck at...

-PTI The new prices will be effective from December 15 India’s leading dairy firm Amul on Saturday announced hiking Milk prices by Rs.2 per litre across various States, while Mother Dairy increased rates by up to Rs.3 per litre in Delhi-NCR due to rise in procurement cost. The new prices will be effective from Sunday, Mother Dairy and Amul said in separate statements. Please click here to read more. ...

-The Indian Express A video surfaced on social media, which shows a cook at the Salai Banwa Primary School in Kota village boiling water in a large aluminum container before adding Milk from a one-litre tetra pack. In Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district, a bucket of water was allegedly mixed in one litre of Milk to feed around 81 students at a local school as part of the mid-day meal programme on...

-The Telegraph With malnutrition levels as bad as sub-Saharan African countries, a vegetarian diet is just an imposition for Indians Indian cuisine is not a homogenous entity, and food habits differ along regional, religious, caste, and class lines. Yet there is an assumption in dominant discourses that India is a vegetarian nation. According to Dr Veena Shatrugna, former Director, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderbad, contrary to any such assumption, about 80 per...

-The Indian Express Government data always come with limitations. Now, they have a political dimension A new data-related controversy has erupted after the government aborted the publication of the report of the household consumer expenditure survey (CES) conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) during 2017-18. This survey is one of the oldest series of surveys — undertaken by NSSO since the 1950s — and is the precursor to the...