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Why are Delhi’s child feeding practices deteriorating? Key takeaways from NFHS-6
June 08, 2026 2:28 pm
Data shows significant dips in early breastfeeding initiation and dietary diversity for children aged 6-23 months.
NFHS-VI calls for a nutrition rethink
June 01, 2026 6:39 pm
Government nutrition programmes have tried to provide a corrective. However, these have focused excessively on supply-side interventions without adequately appreciating how the family, especially mothers, influences children's food intake
NFHS-6 data likely to be out in May
April 29, 2026 3:10 am
For the current round, conducted digitally, 6,79,238 households were surveyed across states and UTs between 2023 and 2024. The 6th round may provide details about Covid-19 cases, deaths and hospitalisation.
There is no debate: There has been a persistent decline in poverty in India
November 05, 2022 10:31 pm
India’s poverty decline was already remarkable before 2014. Now, it is second to none.
NFHS data on diet practices should lead to more informed debate on nutrition, remove blinkers of policymakers
May 18, 2022 9:39 am
The gender disparities in the consumption of non-vegetarian food, highlighted by the NFHS-5, should make policymakers revisit the debates on reducing the protein deficit of the country's women. Hanging on to facile stereotypes will do more harm than good.
More men eating non-veg than before: Health survey data
May 17, 2022 7:39 am
Data from the recently released NFHS-5, which was conducted in 2019-21, show that the proportion of men aged 15-49 years who have never consumed non-vegetarian food — listed as ‘fish, chicken or meat’ in the survey — stood at 16.6 per cent in 2019-21.
NFHS data says Chandigarh has highest number of rich people in India: Find out where your state stands
May 12, 2022 7:18 pm
NFHS 5 has further found that Jains are the richest amongst the religious communities in India, with over 80% of its population falling in the highest wealth quintile and only 1.6% falling in the lowest.
Obesity in women rose by 3%, men 4%, in four years: NFHS-5
May 16, 2022 8:31 pm
The highest proportion of overweight or obese women is found in Puducherry (46 per cent) followed by Chandigarh (44 per cent), Delhi, Tamil Nadu, and Punjab (41 per cent each), and Kerala and Andaman & Nicobar Islands (38 per cent each), according to the report.
NFHS-5: Half of households don’t seek govt health care
May 12, 2022 7:48 am
The survey report shows that the percentage of households that did not generally use a government health facility during 2019-21 was 49.9%, which is lower than the 55.1% recorded in the previous round of NFHS in 2015-16.
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