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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: Midday meals

Bylane cremations, home births, ration queues — ground reporter’s camera captures Covid-hit UP

Over 28 days, ThePrint's Jyoti Yadav travelled across eight UP districts recording the fallout of the second Covid wave. Here are some moments from the journey.

Akshaya Patra governance under lens as 4 high-profile trustees quit in 2020, NGO denies link

4 trustees are ex-Infosys chief financial officers Mohandas Pai and V. Balakrishnan, ChrysCapital co-founder Raj Kondur, and Abhay Jain, adviser to Manipal Education & Medical Group.

This South Delhi kitchen turns out 70,000 meals a day for lockdown-hit homeless & migrants

Funded by Delhi government and run by NGO People's Welfare Society, the kitchen has been cooking for migrant workers & homeless people since 29 March.

UP journalist Pawan Jaiswal gets clean chit in ‘salt-roti’ midday meal video case

The UP govt had suspended two teachers and a case was registered against Hindi journalist Pawan Jaiswal and the representative of Hinauta village for allegedly maligning the image of the state.

Students’ performance in govt schools suffer if they are hungry: Study

Researchers conducted tests on students of Classes 5 and 7 in Delhi government schools to find the effect of mid-day meals on children’s learning outcomes.

Editors Guild urges UP govt to withdraw cases against journalist who shot mid-day meal video

The Guild has also expressed concern over travel restrictions on journalists, referring to Gowhar Geelani case.

Should Karnataka govt push for onion, garlic in midday meal or let ISKCON follow own plan?

Akshaya Patra, an NGO under International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), has come under fire from civil society groups in Karnataka for not using...

On Camera

From ‘Jai Kisan’ to CVC, Shastri walked the talk. But corruption proved harder to root out

Set up by Lal bahadur Shastri, the Santhanam Committee's key concern was that corruption, once limited to the lower rungs of the bureaucracy, had now infected the All India Services and political leadership.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.