Midday Meal Tragedy

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  Man Arrested For Spraying Herbicide On Midday Meal Utensils At School: Cops

  A tragedy was averted at a government school in Telangana's Adilabad district after alert staff discovered herbicide sprayed on utensils used for the midday meal and in the drinking water, police said on Wednesday.

• Regulatory issues, midday meal kept HRD Ministry busy in 2013

  The Bihar midday meal tragedy claiming 23 lives came as a big setback for HRD Ministry as it remained engaged with a host of regulatory issues during 2013.

• Bihar midday meal tragedy: Principal, husband charged with murder in chargesheet

  A school principal and her husband have been charged with murder in the chargesheet filed by police in a local court in the midday meal tragedy in a village primary school in Bihar's Saran district in July in which 23 students died.

• Supreme Court issues notice to Centre, state governments on unhygienic mid-day meals

  In the wake of the Bihar mid-day meal tragedy, in which 23 children died, the Supreme Court today issued notices to the Centre and 12 states seeking their response on preventing such incidents and providing hygienic food to children.

• 30 students fall ill after eating mid-day meal at a school in Madhya Pradesh

  At least 30 students fell ill after eating midday meal in a government primary school at Bhandi village in Balaghat, official sources said today.

• Bihar's schools fail poor children, everyday

  The midday meal tragedy has exposed the chronic neglect of government school education in Bihar.

• Nitish vs BJP: Relentless politics over the death of 23 children

  Exactly a week after 23 children, some as young as four, died from a poisoned school lunch, political parties remain committed to inscribing the tragedy with vicious agendas. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his senior ministers have found a conspiracy mantra and are sticking to it. They insist that that the food that was served as part of th...

• Bihar midday meal tragedy: Critically ill children in their arms, parents took bikes, cycles to hospital

  Some of the 23 Bihar schoolchildren who died after being served lunch laced with insecticide in school may have survived if they had been treated in time. At least 4 children died while their frantic parents made an inexcusably long journey from hospital to hospital on motorbikes, cycles and tempos, in search of proper facilities