Mystery illness identified as Influenza B
The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry (Sri Lanka) categorically stated that the mystery illness in the southern parts of the country was a type of influenza which had no links with Bird Flu or SARS.
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Food for all
Though India is one of the largest producers of the food in the world, nearly three hundred million people struggle for meeting two square meals a day and 21 percent of the national population are malnourished. This indicates the issues of accessibility to adequate and nutritive food to the poor.
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Unhealthy eating in office can hit productivity
A ground-breaking study, the first ever to examine workplace eating habits worldwide, has established that poor nutrition at the workplace can decrease productivity rates at the company and the
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30 years of left front rule in West Bengal: a development report card
The report titled
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Fudging parameter to reduce number of poor
New Delhi: How does the government manage to keep the poverty line so low? Rather simple for the statisticians
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ICDS gets packaged food for the malnourished
How does one treat a malnourished child? Common sense suggests a proper meal. Not good enough, says the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development. Its prescription is supplying an 80-g
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Icrisat develops crops resistant to drought
The International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics has released 735 highly-nutritious and drought-tolerant crop varieties developed using germplasm and breeding materials in 78 countries, including Andhra Pradesh in India, significantly contributing to increased income and better nutrition of resource-poor people in the dry land tropics. In Anantapur, where over 50 per cent of farm
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Centre to utilise part of food stock to feed HIV+ population
The Indian government has decided to offload a part of its surplus food stock for the nutrition needs of its HIV-positive population. This initiative, under the NACO programme in the country, will be
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Don't just research, use it: World Food Man
The 66-year-old Biologist Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta, will be picking up his World Food Prize on October 13, in Des Moines, Iowa, has helped over a million farmers attain nutritional security in
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Global count reaches 3 trillion trees
<p>There are slightly more than three trillion trees in the world according to the most comprehensive census yet of global forestation published in the journal Nature.</p>
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Country's first bio-safety lab opens
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) yesterday opened country's first bio-safety laboratory to protect its scientists and technicians from infliction of viral onslaughts during research work. US ambassador in Dhaka James F Moriarty inaugurated the lab. ICDDR'B officials said the new facility would help researchers to handle the deadly viruses with more p
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A thriving agricultural sector in a changing climate: Meeting Malabo Declaration goals through climate-smart agriculture
Given its heavy reliance on rainfed agriculture and projected climatic and weather changes, SSA faces multidimensional challenges in ensuring food and nutrition security as well as preserving its ecosystems.
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'Food technology must reach rural belts'
Fruit and vegetable processing, cereal food products, animal food products, dairying, spices, plantation products, beverages, storage and food packaging, biochemistry, nutrition and food microbiology
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Indian gets World Food Prize
The World Food Prize has been bagged by Indian scientist Modadugu Gupta for his work to enhance nutrition of over one million people, mostly very poor women, through the expansion of aquaculture and
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NACO, WFP pact on treating AIDS patients
The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for making food and nutrition an integral part of all
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Role of cash in conditional cash transfer programme for child health, growth & development:an analysis of Mexico's Oportunidades
Many governments have implemented conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes with the goal of improving options for poor families through interventions in health, nutrition, and education. Families enrolled in CCT programmes receive cash in exchange for complying with certain conditions: preventive health requirements and nutrition supplementation, education, and monitoring designed to improve health outcomes and promote positive behaviour change. The aim was to disaggregate the effects of cash transfer from those of other programme components.
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Severe food crisis exists in India: Dreze
Thinker and economist Jean Dreze is convinced that a "dramatic nutritional emergency" exists in India. He is appalled that despite grim statistics
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Five mothers contract meningitis after caesarean surgery
The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry has ordered a full probe into the incident where five mothers who underwent caesarean surgery had contracted fatal "meningitis." The Ministry's Epidemiology
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Reports on pesticide residues contaminating food exaggerated'
The pesticide industry claimed that chemical agriculture has a definite role to play in food and nutritional security. This is notwithstanding the prevailing grave concern over contamination of food
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TB deaths drop in Lanka
Around 2,770 Tuberculosis (TB) deaths were reported in 1990 while in 2008 only 1,685 deaths were reported, a Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said.