User: indiatogether Topic: Human Rights
Category: Hunger
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Old woman dies from starvation in Nawada (Cached) 3.9.2010 TOI: All Headlines
Old woman dies from starvation in Nawada
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Column : Getting it right on (Cached) 3.9.2010 Financial Express
Column : Getting it right on
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Column : Getting it right on (Cached) 3.9.2010 Financial Express: Front Page
This has been the food security week with the NAC and the courts getting into the last lap. The fact that a food security system will be set up is accepted by all and this column has always stood by that.
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How PDS overhaul can make India hunger-free (Cached) 2.9.2010 Rediff: Top Stories (India)
Universalisation of the public distribution system can help the needy get low-priced but nutritious food and cover most of the Indian population at a very low cost to the exchequer, argues Gopal Krishna.
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Free foodgrain to needy: To give or not to give (Cached) 2.9.2010 Rediff: Columns
The Supreme Court's order on free distribution of grains to the needy is most likely meant to be a one-time exercise, feels Bhavdeep Kang.
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A Rising Sun 2.9.2010 NIE: Thiruvananthapuram
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: Adichie, the Nigerian writer, is like that new kid on the block who has performed a particularly spectacul..
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CPI threatens to raid warehouses (Cached) 2.9.2010 Deccan Chronicle: Karimnagar

Nizamabad, Sept. 1: CPI state secretary K. Narayana criticised that the Centre had failed to distribute the food grains to the needy even as large quantitities of them were rotting in godowns.

“It is unfortunate that the government has not even reacted to the directives of the Supreme Court which clearly ordered that food grains should be distributed at no cost,” he said.

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Stem The Rot (Cached) 2.9.2010 TOI: Editorial
Reform the delivery system to ensure food security.
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Cooking the books (Cached) 1.9.2010 Hindustan Times: Views
Degrees in gastronomy could mean a whole new tasting menu to tease your palate. Take a bite of that
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Starvation and sleep-deprivation may keep brain sharp (Cached) 1.9.2010 DNA: Top News
New research from Washington University in St Louis suggests that, in fruit flies, being hungry may provide a way to stay awake without feeling groggy or mentally challenged.
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Starvation may keep brain sharp (Cached) 1.9.2010 TOI: All Headlines
Starvation may keep brain sharp
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Couch potato is dying as viewers watch TV online (Cached) 1.9.2010 New Kerala: India News
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SC for Santa Claus 1.9.2010 Business Standard: Opinion & Analysis
There is absolutely no denying the fact that the sight of rotting food stocks on the one hand and hungry poor on the other is a blot on government and governance in India. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar deserves all the rap on the knuckles that the countrys highest judiciary can give. Indeed, Mr Pawar ought to step down apologising for his inefficiency in handling the food and agriculture ministry.
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Pak flood: UN officials call for stepping up assistance (Cached) 1.9.2010 New Kerala: India News
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'A biscuit a day...' (Cached) 1.9.2010 Financial Express
'A biscuit a day...'
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SC proposals for more grain (Cached) 1.9.2010 Telegraph: Nation
New Delhi, Aug. 31: The Supreme Court today made several suggestions for making use of foodgrain said to be rotting in godowns and fighting hunger in the country.
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'A biscuit a day...' (Cached) 1.9.2010 Financial Express: Front Page
As long as the poor remain malnourished, the malnourished will remain poor. Calorie deficits lower worker productivity, which in turn affects national output by as much as 4%. The government enacted the Food Security Act to alleviate hunger in India, a country with more hungry people than sub-Saharan Africa.
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Party lines blur in this fight to defeat hunger 1.9.2010 NIE: Op-Ed
You don’t really expect MPs from opposing alliances, such as the Bharatiya Janta Party’s Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (NDA) and the Nati..
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A meal plan for all of India (Cached) 1.9.2010 Deccan Chronicle: Op Ed

In September this year a summit will be held in New York under the auspices of the United Nations to review the progress made during the last 10 years in achieving the targets set under the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by member nations of the UN in 2000. The MDGs represent a global common minimum programme for sustainable human security and well-being.

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Pak: UN Sounds Alarm As Many Die of Hunger, Disease (Cached) 1.9.2010 Outlook Wires
Over 50 people, including children, have died of hunger and disease in flood-hit areas of southern Pakistan, prompting heads of United Nations' agencies to urge the international community today to step up support for victims of the country's worst natural disaster.
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