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India elected to three bodies of UN Economic and Social Council
April 21, 2021 1:54 pm
India was elected by acclamation to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2022.
Mid-day meal scheme should be re-activated with provision of cooked meals: WFP India
January 31, 2021 2:32 pm
The UN's World Food Programme country director Bishow Parajuli said India offers a shining example through its existing food safety nets and the collaborative response it undertook to try and ensure that the coronavirus-triggered lockdowns did not disrupt the nutrition of the school children.
‘Might be useful to provide money to mothers to buy vegetables... so that it helps expand local production’
October 21, 2020 5:30 am
"It is practically difficult to include many food items... There is this staple food — rice and wheat or pulses — and then there is a programme like mid-day meal to provide hot cooked meals to children at schools. And there is this special intervention of ICDS," says Bishow P. arajuli
Nobel Peace prize to World Food Programme recognises hunger as violation of human rights
October 13, 2020 8:44 am
Amidst all the media attention to the exceptional violence of wars, terrorism and genocides, we tend to forget the millions of hunger victims who die in a slower, less spectacular form of violence. Hunger is not inevitable: It is man-made and there are victims and perpetrators.
UN 'outraged' by attack on food aid convoy in South Sudan
October 07, 2020 5:57 pm
The attack, which occurred Monday as the WFP convoy of boats was carrying food aid to Melut and Malakal in the north to assist hundreds of thousands of people displaced by recent flooding left one crew member missing and three with gunshot wounds.
UP govt inks pact to provide nutritious meals to anganwadis
September 09, 2020 6:07 am
The project with the World Food Programme will be undertaken in 204 development blocks in 18 districts. During the signing of the MoU, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed his desire to expand it to the other districts.
UN food agency facing worst challenge since World War II
February 21, 2015 12:34 pm
WFP is doing preparatory work for a potential scale-up in food assistance to four other countries.
Ebola outbreak 'running' ahead of world's response: UN official
October 04, 2014 12:24 pm
The UN Central Emergency Response Fund is building two treatment centres in Monrovia which should be ready by the end of October with 400 beds.
Noting Syria's humanitarian crisis,UN aid worker demands access
September 24, 2013 2:04 pm
In the war-torn nation,access for workers providing food and medicine has been a problem.
One in eight globally is going hungry: UN
October 09, 2012 3:18 pm
One out of every eight people in the world is chronically undernourished,UN's FAO has said.
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