Bihar School Food Poisoning

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  120 Students Of Bihar School Fall Ill After Consuming Food At Hostel

  120 children had fallen ill due to food poisoning at a government-run school in Bihar's Lakhisarai district, police said.

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  100 Students Fall Sick Due To Food Poisoning In Bihar Government School

  Nearly 100 students have fallen sick apparently due to food poisoning at a government-run residential school in Bihar's Lakhisarai district, an official said.

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  80 Children Fall Ill in Bihar After Mid-Day Meal

  At least 80 children fell ill on Wednesday after taking their mid-day meal at two government schools in Bihar.

• Bihar's schools fail poor children, everyday

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

• Mid-day meal deaths: Chhapra school principal applies for bail

  The absconding principal of the Dharmasati Gandaman Primary School in Chhapra, Bihar, where contaminated mid-day meals cost 23 students their lives, today moved court for bail. Principal Meena Devi, who has been absconding ever since the incident, has been charged with murder and criminal conspiracy in the First Information Report or FIR in the cas...

• 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 mid-day meal tragedy: Blood samples of children show acute poisoning

  Serum tests conducted on blood samples of four children, who are in critical condition after consuming the fatal free lunch at their school last week in Bihar's Chhapra, indicate that the victims were exposed to "acute poisoning". The results of the tests, held in Mumbai, suggest that a toxic substance was mixed with the food immediately before it ...

• Can't guarantee mid-day meal tragedy won't repeat: Bihar minister's shocker

  PK Shahi, the Education Minister, said today, "As a minister, how can I guarantee that in 72,000 schools across the state, there won't be any poison in the food if somebody is hell bent on doing so."

• Bihar's mid-day meal disaster: Forensic report confirms presence of pesticide in food

  A forensic report on whether the free lunch served to school children in Bihar's Chhapra on Tuesday was poisoned, has confirmed traces of insecticides in the food sample. The Forensic Science Lab report found the pesticide in the samples of oil from the container, food remains on the platter and mixture of rice with vegetables on aluminium utensils...

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: Traces of insecticide found in food sample, says forensic report

  A forensic report on whether free lunch served to school children in Bihar's Chhapra on Tuesday was poisoned, today said that traces of insecticides were found in the food sample collected from the school.

• Bihar mid-day meal disaster: cooks recount the horror

  Soon after they served the daily free lunch they had prepared for dozens of children at a school in Masrakh, the two cooks realized something was very wrong.

• In Bihar, struggling with mid-day meal disaster, a 'jalebi' controversy

  Bihar is struggling with the crushing weight of a tragedy that saw 23 children die after a poisoned free lunch in their school. School principals and cooks who prepare the free mid-day meal have been ordered to taste the food before it's served to young students.

• Bihar government denies alert from Centre on mid-day meal

  The Bihar government today denied receiving any alert from the Centre over shortcomings in its implementation of the mid-day meal scheme. 23 children died after being poisoned by the free lunch at their school in Chhapra on Tuesday. The state government insists that the food was 'poisonous'.

• Amritsar: Insects, worms found in mid-day meal kitchen

  Even as the country grapples with the death of 23 children in Bihar after being poisoned by the free lunch at their school, another such case has come to light in Amritsar.

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: Government orders school principals, cooks to taste food first

  Faced with intense criticism, Nitish Kumar's Bihar government has released a prominent ad in newspapers instructing the principal and cook in every school to first taste the free mid-day meal before it is served to children. Officials in charge of checking the meals will also have to taste the food and record the quality.