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Teachers in PoK stage hunger strike for upgradation in pay scales
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Protests by as many as 30 teachers continued for the second day on Tuesday in the Chattar in PoK with participants showing no signs of giving up until the acceptance of their demands of upgradation in pay scales.
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Eminent Nutrition Thought Leaders join hands with Superfoods Valley to sup
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], November 15 (ANI/BusinessWire India): When given the right fuel, our bodies can heal themselves. Nutrition is as simple as that yet it's one of the most complex and widening gaps across the globe. In some good news, Nutrition and Food-tech Startup, Superfoods V
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PM Modi seeks agreement to maintain supply of manure, foodgrains
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
"In India, for sustainable food security, we are promoting natural farming and re-popularising nutritious and traditional foodgrains like millets. Millets can also solve global malnutrition and hunger. We all must celebrate the International Year of Millets with great enthusiasm next year
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"Define hunger death," Jharkhand High Court to govt
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Jharkhand High Court has directed the state government to define "hunger death" and to tell the "actual number of hunger deaths" in the state.
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Researchers reveal how 'protein hunger' leads to overeating in large-scale
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Study revealed the causes behind the increase in obesity rates. And suggested that modern diets consist of highly processed and refined foods -- which are low in protein -- people are driven to consume more energy-dense foods until they satisfy their protein demand.
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People of Afghanistan under world's most severe hunger crisis: Report
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
As per the the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the hunger crisis is affecting 22.8 million people in Afghanistan which is equivalent to more than half of the population, as a result of extended drought, conflict, and political instability.
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Study shows 'protein hunger' drives overeating in large-scale population
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A year-long study of the dietary habits of 9,341 Australians has backed growing evidence that highly processed and refined foods are the leading contributor to rising obesity rates in the Western world.
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Balochistan National Party holds rally against Pakistan army
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
As per the locals, the establishment and Pak army is busy seeking their own interest rather than paying attention to the real issues of Balochistan and the subjugated Baloch people, who are dying of poverty and hunger accentuated by the recent floods in the region, reported Pak local medi
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F16 package from US: Pakistan's misplaced priorities exposed amid economic
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 22 (ANI): At a time when the Pakistani economy is faltering and people are hit by diseases and hunger after unprecedented floods, the country in a misplaced priority saga is busy sourcing fighter jet-related packages from the US, media reports.
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Global Hunger Index doesn't really measure hunger: ICMR
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that the Global Hunger Index (GHI) does not really measure hunger.
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Centre in "denial mode" of India's poverty, hunger issues: Chidambaram
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): Veteran Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said that the Narendra Modi-led Central Government is in "denial mode" vis-a-vis challenge of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, which he claimed was more evident when it rejected
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Pramod Sawant's BJP govt contributed to India's 107th position in global h
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], October 16 (ANI): The sharp contrast in the socio-economics of India is due to anti-people policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government during the past eight years and an alarming rise in the unemployment rate is also the cause of starvation, said Goa Pradesh
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