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- Malnutrition causes 45% deaths of under five children: report
- Results estimate that stunting (reduced growth) affected at least 165 million children worldwide in 2011 while at least 52 million children were affected by wasting (low weight for height), and 100 million children were underweight. Over 90 per cent of these were in Asia or Africa, with Africa the only major world region where the number of children with stunting increased
- A study based on a survey of the height and weight of more than one lakh children across six States in India last year had found that as many as 42 per cent of under-fives were severely or moderately underweight and that 59 per cent of them suffered from moderate to severe stunting
- Centre returns defective ponzi bill
- The Centre has returned the West Bengal Bill, aimed at reining in ponzi firms. According to sources, the Centre has expressed reservations about the “retrospective effect” clause and asked the State government to rectify it
- China unveils south Asian trade push with backing from India's neighbours
- China launched its first-ever South Asia Exposition, an event described by Mr. Ma, who is also a Vice-Premier, as an attempt to deepen China’s economic ties in the region. The expo is an upgraded version of a commodities fair that Kunming hosts every year, signalling the Central government’s backing to an event it had earlier largely ignored.
- Tthe launch of the expo was tied to a larger “blueprint” unveiled by the new leadership to boost development in border regions.
- Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce Asit Tripathi was the sole official representative at the event, although 100 Indian exhibitors — many of whom were earlier participants in the annual commodities fair — were present.
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