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TopicMid-day meal

Topic: Mid-day meal

Goa junks plan to add eggs to mid-day meals after ‘strictly veg’ parents, students oppose pilot run

State education dept says after egg proposal failed to gain traction, they opted to include ragi laddus, chikkis instead. Meanwhile, Maharashtra continues to offer eggs in mid-day meals. 

Centre flags dip in govt school enrolment in 13 states/UTs in 2023-24, UP sees highest drop at 28 lakh

Reverse migration after pandemic, shift to private schools & low mid-day meal coverage are among the key reasons for decline in enrolment for classes 1 to 8 in govt schools, officials say.

‘Missing students’, unused rice: Inside Centre-formed panel’s report on Bengal midday meal ‘lapses’

Panel says many students enrolled in govt schools ‘study in private schools’. Bengal to now receive Rs 180 crore less than it demanded as central assistance under scheme in 2023-24.

DM orders probe, seeks report within 48 hours after dead snake found in mid-day meal in Bihar’s Araria

Children hospitalised as precaution have been discharged, says Araria DM, adds action will be taken against those found guilty.

Karnataka govt set to serve eggs on mid-day meal menu in more districts, despite opposition

The state government had last year introduced the scheme in seven districts but faced stiff opposition from Lingayat, Jain and other communities.

Lack of healthy food in school yrs caused 20 cm height gap across nations, study finds

Researchers assessed the height and weight of 65 million school-aged children and adolescents in 193 countries.

How states are delivering mid-day meals to students during Covid-19 school closure 

While West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh are delivering dry rations to beneficiaries of mid-day meals, Delhi is learnt to be still struggling to find a way.

Schools shut over COVID-19, govt plans delivery of grains or cash for mid-day meal recipients

HRD ministry is set to tell states to provide students with either food grains or cooked meals delivered to their homes, or to send cash to their parents.

Chidambaram’s ‘economy class cell’ in Tihar and Modi-Shah’s toast to RBI

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Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.