Midday Meal
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Purchase of quality materials for mid-day meal ordered
India | Jul 28, 2013, 10:28 PM ISTPatna, Jul 28: Jolted by the death of 23 children in a midday meal tragedy at Chhapra, the Bihar government has made it compulsory for schools to purchase quality food items so that students get
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19 kids ill after eating mid day meal in Goa
India | Jul 27, 2013, 04:24 PM ISTPanaji, July 27: At least 19 students of a government-aided high school at Pernem taluka in Goa fell ill after eating mid-day meal today, officials said. While a girl was hospitalised at a primary health
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Mid-day meal tragedy: 3 lakh teachers in Bihar boycott duties, Allahabad HC says, teachers should teach, not cook meals
India | Jul 25, 2013, 05:09 PM ISTAllahabad/Patna, July 25: The duty of school teachers and principals is to teach students and not to supervise cooking of meals, the Allahabad High Court has observed, close on the heels of Bihar mid-day meal
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Tadpole found in mid-day meal at UP school
India | Jul 25, 2013, 01:49 PM ISTLucknow, July 25: A tadpole was found in the mid-day meal served to students at a primary school in Moradabad, an official said Thursday.'Tahri' (cooked rice) was served Wednesday at the Tikhunti primary school in
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Full meal available in Mumbai at Rs 12: Raj Babbar
India | Jul 25, 2013, 06:29 AM ISTNew Delhi, July 25: Congress spokesperson Raj Babbar on Wednesday said it was possible to have "full meal at Rs 12 in Mumbai" even today, a remark that drew sharp reaction from BJP, which dubbed
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Raju to write to MPs for support on mid-day meal scheme
India | Jul 24, 2013, 09:59 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jul 24: With a string of incidents putting a question mark on mid-day meal scheme, HRD Minister M M Pallam Raju today said he would write to all MPs for their support for
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Bihar mid-day meal: Three lakh teachers to boycott the scheme
India | Jul 24, 2013, 01:47 PM ISTPatna, July 24: Three lakh school teachers in Bihar have decided to boycott the mid-day meal scheme from July 25 to get rid of non-academic work.A week after the death of 23 children from eating
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Haryana Midday Meal:Sarpanch rules against midday meal after lizard found in food
India | Jul 24, 2013, 10:16 AM ISTPalwal, July 23: The sarpanch of Lohagarh here has said that students from his village would no longer take part in the midday meal scheme at the government secondary school after a lizard was found
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Bihar mid-day meal: SIT set up to investigate Chhapra tragedy
India | Jul 23, 2013, 09:19 PM ISTPatna, July 23: A Special Investigating Team (SIT) formed by the Bihar government Tuesday began its probe into the deaths of 23 children after they ate a mid-day meal in a school.The eight-member team is
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31 Chhattisgarh kids hospitalised after mid day meal
India | Jul 21, 2013, 07:43 AM ISTRaipur, July 21: At least 31 students of a primary school in Chhattisgarh were hospitalised yesterday after they ate their mid day meal, officials said. All students are out of danger and the government has
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11 students fall ill after consuming mid-day meal in UP
India | Jul 20, 2013, 10:23 PM ISTMuzaffarnagar, UP, Jul 20: Eleven students fell ill after consuming mid-day meal served to them at a government primary school at Lusana village here today.The children were taken ill soon after eating the mid-day meal,
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Bihar midday meal tragedy: Blame game continues
India | Jul 19, 2013, 11:04 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jul 19: The mid-day meal tragedy has sparked a blame game with the Bihar government today refuting Centre's contention of having sent alerts to 12 districts including Saran, where 23 children died after
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Children reluctant to have mid day meal in Bihar
India | Jul 19, 2013, 06:54 PM ISTPatna, July 19: Students in at least one district of Bihar are now reluctant to eat the mid-day meal served in their school following the death of 23 students after they had contaminated food in
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Bihar midday meal: Smoke from burning AC wire creates panic at Patna hospital
India | Jul 19, 2013, 04:26 PM ISTPatna, Jul 19: Burning of an electric wire of an air conditioner in the paediatric ward of Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), where 24 students of Chhapra midday meal tragedy are undergoing treatment, created
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Midday meal: Gujarat school kids in Surat get high quality meal from Akshaya Patra
India | Jul 19, 2013, 08:46 AM ISTSurat, Jul 19: Nearly 1.25 lakh school children in Surat get their daily midday meal through a reputed NGO named Akshay Patra, which supplies machine-made hygienic food for the kids. India TV reporter went to
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Bihar midday meal tragedy: poisonous oil came from RJD leader's shop, says Bihar education minister
India | Jul 18, 2013, 06:13 AM ISTPatna, July 18: Bihar Education Minister P K Shahi, who returned from Chhapra, yesterday alleged that a local RJD leader's shop supplied cooking oil mixed with poisonous organo phosphorus compound which led to the death
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RJD calls bandh in Bihar to protest death of kids in mid-day meal poisoning
National | Jul 17, 2013, 09:08 AM ISTChapra, Jul 17: Bihar's opposition RJD has called a bandh in Saran district today to protest the death of 11 students, mostly girls, after they consumed mid-day meal at a government primary school. RJD President Lalu
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Paswan seeks Nitish's resignation over student deaths
National | Jul 17, 2013, 08:57 AM ISTNew Delhi, Jul 17: The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ramvilas Paswan yesterday slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over death of school students after consuming mid-day meal in Chhapra and demanded his resignation saying
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Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: insecticide found in food, death toll rises to 23
India | Jul 17, 2013, 06:48 PM ISTPatna, July 17: Twelve more children who ate mid-day meal at their school in Bihar's Saran district died overnight, pushing up the toll to 23. Ten more children are battling for their lives, officials said,
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One child dead, 42 children hospitalized after mid-day meal in Bengal
India | Mar 24, 2013, 08:42 PM ISTDurgapur, WB, Mar 24 : Forty-two children got sick and one child died due to food poisoning after a mid-day meal was provided by a school here on Saturday. After consuming the mid-day meal, the