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NITI Aayog on Monday said 135 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty in five years with the proportion of poor in the country down from 24.8% to 14.9% between 2015-16 and 2019-21, on the back of improvements in nutrition,…

Members of a boat club practising ahead of Champakulam Moolam boat race on Vembanad Lake in Alappuzha | Photo Credit: SURESH ALLEPPEY It is a well-documented fact that Kerala ranks first on many socio-economic indicators compared to other…

'Sunday ho ya Monday, roz khao ande' Once one of India's most popular advertisements, the National Egg Coordination Committee's (NECC) 1980s pitch for including eggs in diets was instrumental in making the food a staple in many households.…

A vast chunk of India’s poor, in terms of ownership of consumer goods and household assets, reside in a handful of eastern and northeastern states, shows the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) report released last week. The…

Government expenditure on public healthcare in 2021-22 increased by 73% from a year ago to ₹4.72 lakh crore, according to the Economic Survey. "Although the pandemic has affected almost all social services, yet the health sector was the…

The latest National Family Health Survey's findings for Uttar Pradesh have thrown up encouraging results for its population control and child immunisation efforts while on anaemia, where the country has shown concern, UP has done better…

Results of NFHS-5 (2019-20) showed that in the majority of the States for which data were released, child stunting and child wasting increased compared to 2015-16 India was ranked 101 out of 116 countries in the recently released Global…