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Saturday, April 27, 2024
TopicMid-day meal

Topic: Mid-day meal

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

Sourav Roy Barman -
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

Deepak Mishra -
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

Shyam Nandan Upadhyay -
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

Victoria Masterson -
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 

Kritika Sharma -
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

Kritika Sharma -
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

Soham Sen -
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Opinion

Instagram reels on stoicism are the new rage — they can battle burnout and bigotry

Danishmand Khan -
The Romans’ version of stoicism is rapidly picking popularity on Instagram — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca are some names that get thrown at you when you fire up your screen.

Congress can’t deny Modi’s charge of Muslim quota. Karnataka & 2009 manifesto are proof

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Economy

Government allows export of onions to six countries, sets buffer stock target

ThePrint Team -
The government had imposed an export prohibition in order to ensure adequate domestic availability of onions in the country.

Defence

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

National Interest

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

Shekhar Gupta -
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.

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