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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-6 data on child nutrition has sobering warnings

NFHS-6 data on child nutrition carries sobering warnings

June 07, 2026 11:45 pm

Breastfeeding remains one of the most evidence-backed, low-cost public-health interventions available, benefiting both child survival and maternal health. Its decline in states with high malnutrition burdens is a serious policy failure

Latest family health survey: Rajasthan sees rise in teen pregnancies, dip in child nutrition indicators

June 03, 2026 1:48 am

Over 50 groups, activists write to state Health Minister, seeking his intervention

Health survey calls for a nutrition rethink

June 02, 2026 12:12 am

The National Family Health Survey VI, released late last week, flags the alarming proportions taken by diabetes in the country — one in six Indians reported high sugar levels

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

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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.

Days after being kidnapped, Tripura girl rescued from Rajasthan

May 17, 2024 7:52 pm

The Tripura Police received a complaint of abduction of a minor girl on May 6.

How NFHS data can help craft policy for women’s financial inclusion

March 19, 2024 10:47 am

Financial inclusion awareness programmes must give special attention to women in households not headed by women

Malnutrition in Karnataka’s most impoverished district worse than found by NFHS: survey

March 06, 2023 6:45 pm

83% of boys and 75% of girls in the 11-18 age group from poor homes in Yadgir, one of the Centre's aspirational disticts, had BMIs that were too low.

Why we need to focus on nutrition, not hunger

October 28, 2022 8:43 am

Shailaja Chandra writes: The sensational use of the word hunger is abhorrent given the facts. But there is no denying that in India, nutrition, particularly child nutrition, continues to be problematic. Unlike the GHI, the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) does a good job of providing comparative state-level data including the main pointers that determine health and nutrition