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  Government has accorded high priority to hunger: Ram Vilas Paswan

  Politics | July 22, 2015 21:57 IST

  New Delhi: The central government has taken note of the United Nations annual hunger report, and accorded high priority to the issue of hunger, a union minister said on Wednesday."The government has taken note of

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  Last 5 Years, number of undernourished Indians rises

  India | June 02, 2015 14:48 IST

  India has the highest number of undernourished people in the world at 194.6 million, down 7% over the past two decades, but up 2.6% over the past five years. China, which had the most undernourished people,

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  224 million Indians are undernourished: report

  India | October 01, 2012 14:41 IST

  New Delhi, Oct 1 : India has 224.6 million undernourished people as nearly a fifth of the country's population does not receive the minimum number of calories required by an average individual, says the newly