Starvation Deaths
No report of starvation deaths from states and UTs, Smriti Irani tells LS
There is no report of starvation deaths from states and Union Territories, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Friday. Responding to a question, Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said the Global Hunger Index did not reflect India's true picture as it was a flawed measure of "hunger". It should not be taken at face value as it is neither appropriate nor representative of hunger prevalent in a country, she said. India ranked 107th of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index - 2022 with its child wasting rate, at 19.3 per cent, being the highest in the world. "There is no report of starvation deaths from states/UTs," Irani said in a written reply in response to a question on the number of starvation-related deaths among children and adults in India since 2014. Responding to another question, Irani provided data as per which 140,575 children went missing since 2019 and 125,445 children had been recovered during the same period.
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SC seeks data as Centre says no starvation death even during pandemic
The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that due to "comprehensive policies and steps" taken by both Central and state governments, there have been no starvation deaths in recent times
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11 people die of hunger each minute around globe, 155 mn in crisis: Oxfam
Group says global military spending increased by $51 billion during the pandemic: an amount that exceeds by at least six times what the U.N. needs to stop hunger.
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Brazil coronavirus update: Covid-19 death toll crosses 135,000-mark
Another 858 Covid-19 patients have died in Brazil, raising the country's death toll to 135,793, the Brazilian Ministry of Health said
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The price of the lockdown
Does the lockdown imply different trade-off between health and wealth for the haves and have nots?
The lull before the storm
Starvation deaths post-Covid are likely to gallop in India's most vulnerable states unless the Centre steps in
2 brothers starve to death in UP revealing a torn social security net
The government healthcare system is not only failing to prevent these deaths, but the government machinery is actually helping cover up these starvation deaths by ascribing other reasons
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