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Malawi's women sand miners trapped in climate change dilemma

MALAWI-MINING/SAND (FEATURE, PIX):FEATURE-Malawi's women sand miners trapped in climate change dilemma

world news

Published on Mar 21, 2025 06:31 PM IST

Reuters |

At least 80 killed in southern Sudan violence: UN

world news

Published on Feb 06, 2025 04:05 PM IST

AFP |

As Gaza suffers, experts call on hunger monitor to redefine famine

FAMINE-CONDITIONS/GAZA (SPECIAL REPORT, PIX, GRAPHIC):SPECIAL REPORT -As Gaza suffers, experts call on hunger monitor to redefine famine

world news

Updated on Dec 30, 2024 04:52 PM IST

Reuters |

Editorial Roundup: United States

world news

Published on Dec 11, 2024 07:12 AM IST

AP |

Hidden hunger: Role of fortified rice in India's nutritional strategy

This article is authored by Dr Rajan Sankar, public health consultant and former director, nutrition, Tata Trusts.

ht insight

Published on Dec 02, 2024 11:36 AM IST

ByDr Rajan Sankar

India's climate crisis: High cost of leaving women and children behind

Authored by - CK Mishra, former secretary, ministry of health and family welfare and ministry of environment, forest and the climate crisis, New Delhi.

ht insight

Published on Nov 04, 2024 12:43 PM IST

ByCK Mishra

Climate crisis posing grave health, survival threats: Report

In 2023, people were exposed to, on an average, an unprecedented 50 more days of health-threatening temperatures than expected without the climate crisis.

Climate activists protest in London on Monday. (Bloomberg Photo)

environment

Published on Oct 30, 2024 08:46 AM IST

ByRhythma Kaul, New Delhi

War and climate change are overwhelming Somalia

It has already been battered by three decades of conflict

Refugees and asylum seekers, mostly from the Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic group who have been in Indonesia for about 7 to 12 years and others from Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia, take part in a protest demanding their resettlement and basic human rights assistance in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office building in Jakarta on August 12, 2024. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)(AFP)

world news

Published on Sep 08, 2024 08:00 AM IST

The Economist

Did Taylor Swift create a new era for food bank donations?

entertainment

Updated on Aug 25, 2024 09:13 PM IST

AP |

Asia-Pacific’s loss of biodiversity: A hidden threat to food security

Halting deforestation, while enabling forest and landscape restoration, are vital components of addressing the challenge of biodiversity loss and climate change

Gurugram, India-July 05, 2023: A view of Aravali Safari Park land in Garat Pur Bas village; Safari Park project which is being developed in line with the biodiversity park concept in a 10,000-acre land parcel in the Aravalli region in Gurugram and Nuh Districts, in Gurugram, India, on Wednesday, 05 July 2023. (Photo by Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)

opinion

Published on May 22, 2024 09:12 AM IST

ByJong-Jin Kim

India needs to lead agri-tech innovation for Global South

There is a valuable opportunity for India to cement its position as a leader of the Global South by taking more action towards transforming its food system

There is a valuable opportunity for India to cement its position as a leader of the Global South by helping it take more proactive action towards transforming its food system

opinion

Published on Apr 30, 2024 11:32 PM IST

ByKabir Nanda

Fight the rising tide of hunger

The weaponisation of hunger by warring parties through the blocking of international aid and relief operations has added another dimension.

Volunteers deliver food to families, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY(REUTERS)

editorials

Published on Apr 28, 2024 10:53 PM IST

ByHT Editorial

In the shadow of war, Gaza women battle on

While the world waits for a political resolution to the crisis, more attention must be given to how the crisis in Gaza has impacted gender relations.

Palestinian women react as they sit on the rubble of a residential building housing their apartments, following an Israeli raid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, April 18, 2024. REUTERS/Doaa Rouqa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY(REUTERS)

opinion

Published on Apr 27, 2024 10:08 PM IST

ByLalita Panicker

Around 282 million people faced acute hunger in 2023: UN report

2023 was the fifth consecutive year of rises in the number of people suffering acute food insecurity

Meanwhile, the share of the population affected within the areas concerned has doubled 11 percent to 22 percent(Rep image)

world news

Published on Apr 25, 2024 06:57 AM IST

AFP |

Raise awareness on increase in population: AICTE to universities

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has asked universities and institutes to raise awareness about the impact of population explosion, including food insecurity and loss of biodiversity. India's population is expected to surpass China's on July 1, 2022. AICTE stressed the need for balance between population growth and the capacity of Earth's ecosystems. The communication follows a directive from the government, but participation in awareness activities is voluntary.

In its communique on Friday, the AICTE stressed on the need for balance between population growth and the capacity of Earth’s ecosystems (HT)

india news

Updated on Sep 16, 2023 12:38 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, New Delhi

‘Pushed to brink’: 29.2 mn people in Afghanistan need humanitarian help, says UN

Since the Taliban took control, the situation of people in Afghanistan has only deteriorated as the country is under a massive grip of a humanitarian crisis.

Afghan women wait to receive cash at a money distribution point organized by the World Food Program, in Kabul, Afghanistan(AP)

world news

Updated on Jul 29, 2023 03:39 PM IST

ANI |

IRRI, India sign 5-year plan to develop better rice

Between 2023 and 2028, the Philippines-headquartered IRRI and ICAR will work to establish a framework to develop market-oriented rice varieties with higher genetic gains, develop climate-resilient rice systems, and towards bettering rice health and nutrition.

Delegates attend a session on the final day of G20 MACS meet in Varanasi on Wednesday (Sourced)

cities

Updated on Apr 20, 2023 12:35 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Varanasi

Kenya launches first operational satellite into space onboard SpaceX rocket

The launch rocket had 50 payloads from other countries, including Turkey, under SpaceX's rideshare programme.

The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Taifa-1 satellite, took off at about 0648 GMT without incident from Vandenberg Base in California, after three postponements due to bad weather.(AP/ Representative image )

science

Published on Apr 15, 2023 02:40 PM IST

Reuters | | Posted by Yagya Sharma

Nearly 55% of Afghans expected to face food insecurity soon, UN report says

“An estimated 22.8 million people, or 55 per cent of the population, are expected to be in crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity (IPC 3+) between November 2021 and March 2022, a nearly 35 per cent increase from the same season last year (16.9m),” the UN report showed.

In picture - Internally displaced Afghans from northern provinces, who fled their home due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, wait to receive free food in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 10, 2021.(AP )

world news

Published on Nov 07, 2021 08:55 PM IST

Written by Srivatsan K C | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Humour: Flying during the pandemic– Nothing less than an adventure

Unpacking the peculiar experience of air travel during the pandemic

One can’t help but be grateful to the airlines and the crew for the risk and care they take to ferry passengers(Photo Imaging: Parth Garg)

lifestyle

Published on Aug 23, 2020 06:47 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRehana Munir

33 labourers, including 14 minors, saved from being trafficked in Odisha

A day earlier, 16 migrant labourers were rescued from the Kantabanji railway station in the same district.

The distress migration of labourers has come even as the Odisha government in September this year announced rations under the National Food Security Act from September to workers in Bolangir and Nuapara.(FILE PHOTO.)

india news

Updated on Dec 12, 2019 08:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | ByHT Correspondent

World Food Day 2019: Significance, history, date and theme

World Food Day 2019: The United Nation Organisation’s Food and Agriculture Association (FAO) was established on 16th October in 1945. To commemorate this day, World Food Day is celebrated every year with a new theme.

World Food Day 2019: Malnourished children eat at Apanalaya, Mumbai, an organisation working for the betterment of slum children.(AP)

lifestyle

Updated on Oct 16, 2019 11:34 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Delhi | ByNeharika Prakash

Unemployment fuels food insecurity in India: UN

In absolute numbers, India’s undernourished population fell from 253.9 million in 2004-06 to 194.4 million in 2016-18, said the report.

In the Indian Himalayas, an economic slowdown coupled with natural resource depletion and climate change had a negative impact on food production and employment opportunities.(Diwakar Prasad/ HT FILE Photo)

india news

Updated on Jul 17, 2019 07:29 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, New Delhi

Mental illness and diabetes can be a fatal combination. Here’s why

People with severe mental illness are more than twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes, with even higher risks among patients who are African American or Hispanic.

Here’s how diabetes in people with mental illness can be a bad thing.(Shutterstock)

lifestyle

Updated on Jun 14, 2018 03:08 PM IST

Asian News International | ByHT Correspondent

India at risk of food shortage due to climate change, says study

Warming is expected to lead to wetter conditions on average — with floods putting food production at risk — but agriculture could also be harmed by more frequent and prolonged droughts in some areas, researchers said.

The countries at the greatest vulnerability to food insecurity when moving from the present-day climate to 2 degrees Celsius global warming are Oman, India, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, researchers said.(Representative photo)

india news

Updated on Apr 02, 2018 04:12 PM IST

Press Trust of India, London | ByPress Trust of India

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MALAWI-MINING/SAND (FEATURE, PIX):FEATURE-Malawi's women sand miners trapped in climate change dilemma

At least 80 killed in southern Sudan violence: UN

FAMINE-CONDITIONS/GAZA (SPECIAL REPORT, PIX, GRAPHIC):SPECIAL REPORT -As Gaza suffers, experts call on hunger monitor to redefine famine

Editorial Roundup: United States

This article is authored by Dr Rajan Sankar, public health consultant and former director, nutrition, Tata Trusts.

Authored by - CK Mishra, former secretary, ministry of health and family welfare and ministry of environment, forest and the climate crisis, New Delhi.

In 2023, people were exposed to, on an average, an unprecedented 50 more days of health-threatening temperatures than expected without the climate crisis.

It has already been battered by three decades of conflict

Did Taylor Swift create a new era for food bank donations?

Halting deforestation, while enabling forest and landscape restoration, are vital components of addressing the challenge of biodiversity loss and climate change

There is a valuable opportunity for India to cement its position as a leader of the Global South by taking more action towards transforming its food system

The weaponisation of hunger by warring parties through the blocking of international aid and relief operations has added another dimension.

While the world waits for a political resolution to the crisis, more attention must be given to how the crisis in Gaza has impacted gender relations.

2023 was the fifth consecutive year of rises in the number of people suffering acute food insecurity

Since the Taliban took control, the situation of people in Afghanistan has only deteriorated as the country is under a massive grip of a humanitarian crisis.

Between 2023 and 2028, the Philippines-headquartered IRRI and ICAR will work to establish a framework to develop market-oriented rice varieties with higher genetic gains, develop climate-resilient rice systems, and towards bettering rice health and nutrition.

The launch rocket had 50 payloads from other countries, including Turkey, under SpaceX's rideshare programme.

“An estimated 22.8 million people, or 55 per cent of the population, are expected to be in crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity (IPC 3+) between November 2021 and March 2022, a nearly 35 per cent increase from the same season last year (16.9m),” the UN report showed.

Unpacking the peculiar experience of air travel during the pandemic

A day earlier, 16 migrant labourers were rescued from the Kantabanji railway station in the same district.

World Food Day 2019: The United Nation Organisation’s Food and Agriculture Association (FAO) was established on 16th October in 1945. To commemorate this day, World Food Day is celebrated every year with a new theme.

In absolute numbers, India’s undernourished population fell from 253.9 million in 2004-06 to 194.4 million in 2016-18, said the report.

People with severe mental illness are more than twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes, with even higher risks among patients who are African American or Hispanic.

Warming is expected to lead to wetter conditions on average — with floods putting food production at risk — but agriculture could also be harmed by more frequent and prolonged droughts in some areas, researchers said.

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