Mid-day Meal Deaths

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  Man Allegedly Attacked In Bihar For Asking School Meal For Daughter, Dies

  A man was allegedly beaten to death in Bihar's Araria district on Wednesday by the principal and teachers of a school after he complained that his daughter was denied mid-day meal.

• Bihar orphanage head arrested for child's death

  The head of a children's orphanage in Bihar's Vaishali district was arrested today, three days after a child died and 10 fell ill after eating contaminated food, officials said.

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: Chargesheet filed against principal

  A chargesheet was filed today against the school principal of a Bihar school for the death of 23 children who ate contaminated mid-day meal, police said.

• Mid-day meal resumes in Bihar school

  The mid-day meal was cooked for the first time in two months in a primary school in Bihar where 23 school children died after eating contaminated food in July, officials said on Tuesday.

• Girl dies after falling into mid-day meal curry cauldron in Odisha

  Banita Kahnhar, a Class 3 student of Sevashram School run by the Odisha government at Girishchandrapur village, accidentally fell into the vessel when the students were jostling to get the egg curry while the mid-day-meal was being served, police said.

• A month after Bihar mid-day meal tragedy, village still under trauma, grief

  A month after 23 children in a small Bihar village were literally served death on their plates, the trauma still lingers. The Chhapra mid-day meal tragedy became a flashpoint of an intense debate on the state of school mid-day meals, a scheme run across the country.

• Bihar Assembly adjourned after BJP, RJD protest over Chhapra mid-day meal deaths

  On Friday too, when the week-long session of the Assembly began, the opposition members had created a ruckus over the death of 23 children not finding mention in the obituary reference by Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary.

• Bihar's schools fail poor children, everyday

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

• Ruckus in Bihar assembly over mid-day meal disaster

  A week-long monsoon session of the Bihar assembly began today with opposition members creating a ruckus over the death of 23 children not finding mention in the obituary reference by Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary.

• Teachers should teach, not supervise cooking of meals, says court

  The duty of school teachers and principals is to teach students and not to supervise cooking of meals, the Allahabad High Court has observed, more than a week after a poisonous lunch served in Bihar killed 23 children.

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  Bihar mid-day meal tragedy does not appear to be accident, says Nitish Kumar

  More than a week after 23 children died from a poisoned free lunch at their school in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has issued his first public comments on the tragedy.c

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: school principal surrenders, arrested

  The school principal of Dharmasati Gandaman Primary School where 23 children had died after eating mid-day meal, has been surrendered, police said today. Meena Devi had been missing since the tragedy took place.

• Nitish Kumar on politics over mid-day meal tragedy: Highlights

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar speaks on the mid-day meal tragedy and the politics that has now surrounded it. Here are the highlights from Mr Kumar's media address

• 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...

• Mid-day meal deaths: Chemical banned by 46 countries is easily available in India

  Monocrotophos is a chemical that is banned in 46 countries and is easily available in India.