The annual UN-FAO report titled "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021" states that between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020.
India's first grain dispensing ATM has been installed at Farrukhnagar in the Gurugram district of Haryana under a pilot project, to make ration dispersal hassle and complaint-free for citizens.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian journalist Danish Siddiqui has been covering the situation in Kandahar over the past few days for the Reuters news agency.
The Punjab government announced a waiver of Rs 590 crore worth of loans under the farm debt waiver scheme for labourers and the landless farming community.