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starvation news

‘Morgue is full’: How Kenyan starvation cult kept killing

Almost 450 bodies were discovered in mass graves -- most starved to death, though some, including children, were strangled, beaten and suffocated.
Published on Oct 03, 2025 02:11 pm IST

Woman, 27, starves to death in Bali hotel room after adopting 'fruitarian' diet

At the time of her death, the 27-year-old weighed just 22 kilograms.
Published on Oct 03, 2025 06:00 pm IST

Challenges in providing humanitarian aid in Gaza

Displaced Palestinians check what remains of their tents, following an overnight Israeli strike that levelled a building and damaged the surrounding temporary shelters, in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Published on Sept 27, 2025 03:06 pm IST

Gaza suffering has reached 'unimaginable' levels, say 24 countries

In the summer heat, Palestinians line up to collect water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025.
Published on Aug 12, 2025 08:46 pm IST

Famine is 'playing out' in Gaza, warns global hunger monitor

The worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip," said the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) alert.
Published on Jul 29, 2025 02:01 pm IST

Israel resumes airdrop aid to Gaza as international pressure mounts

Palestinians carry sacks of flour unloaded from a humanitarian aid convoy that reached Gaza City from the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday.
Updated on Jul 27, 2025 05:06 am IST

‘Mass starvation’ spreading across Gaza as war continues, warn aid groups

Yazan, a malnourished 2-year-old Palestinian boy, stands with his back turned in his family's damaged home in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 23, 2025.
Published on Jul 23, 2025 08:19 pm IST

UN body says Israeli forces killed over 1,000 aid-seekers in Gaza since May

Men walk carrying sacks of flour that were taken from a raided truck carry sacks of flour after raiding a truck that was carrying foodstuffs, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 22, 2025.
Published on Jul 23, 2025 04:31 am IST

8 racehorses die in Hyderabad-Jabalpur transit; Activist moves MP high court

District collector Deepak Saxena ordered a probe after a PETA member filed a complaint on behalf of former Union Minister Maneka Gandhi. (Satyabrata Tripathy/HT Photo/ Representational image.)
Updated on May 25, 2025 12:15 am IST

Jumbo carcass found in Bhadra sanctuary

Jumbo carcass found in Bhadra sanctuary
Published on Mar 31, 2025 07:14 am IST

Why food is piling up on the edge of Gaza

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Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in the northern Gaza Strip, September 11, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Published on Oct 09, 2024 08:00 am IST

20-year-old Makna elephant found dead; forest dept says starvation likely cause

Carcass of the wild elephant that died at a coffee estate in Kodagu, Karnataka. (PTI)
Updated on Jul 30, 2024 07:14 am IST

NESCO employees booked for starving 26 stray dogs to death

NESCO employees booked for starving 26 stray dogs to death
Updated on Jul 29, 2024 08:00 am IST

Murder of twin girls in Delhi: Accused tried to force wife to abort after sex determination

The specifics of the investigation also revealed the murders were premeditated as Solanki “tortured” the infants by starving them for two days before burying them. (Representational image)
Updated on Jul 12, 2024 05:02 am IST

Russian influencer starves infant son with ‘sunlight-only diet’, jailed

Russian influencer Maxim Lyutyi
Published on Apr 17, 2024 06:00 pm IST

Israel may be using starvation as 'weapon of war' in Gaza: UN

The United Nations rapped Israel for using starvation as a weapon of war.
Published on Mar 20, 2024 01:36 am IST

When food is turned into a weapon of war

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Israel-Hamas War: Israeli soldiers stand next to tanks at a position in Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip as smoke billows over the Gaza Strip after Israeli bombardment.
Published on Mar 16, 2024 10:06 pm IST

Famine 'imminent' in northern Gaza, warns WFP

HT Image
Published on Feb 28, 2024 05:10 am IST

Israeli forces uncover hostage details in Gaza; UN fears starvation amid war

An Israeli soldier operates amid the ongoing ground invasion against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip
Published on Nov 18, 2023 09:58 am IST

Gaza civilians face 'immediate possibility of starvation': UN

A Palestinian man holds a child as he and others ride on a horse drawn cart along a wet street following overnight rainstorms in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip
Updated on Nov 17, 2023 12:42 am IST

Eat, crave, love: How to suss out a fraud diet, even if it’s going viral

Meals that include a variety of raw and cooked foods are better than diets that focus on a limited set of items. (adobe stock)
Updated on Aug 25, 2023 02:43 pm IST

Starvation causes cell remodelling: Research

Starvation causes cell remodelling: Research
Published on Dec 17, 2022 12:04 pm IST

Covid-19 pandemic has put 265 million people at risk of starvation: Study

According to the report, the global poverty level will rise for the first time in 22 years.
Published on Jun 04, 2020 11:07 pm IST

No death in Shramik trains caused by starvation, issue being politicised: BJP

Migrants who arrived from Ghaziabad on a Shramik special train exit Danapur station, in Patna, Bihar.
Updated on Jun 03, 2020 11:39 pm IST

Funding and access can avert starvation due to Covid-19 crisis, says UN food programme head

Boxes of food being distributed by Teamsters Union members and the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank distribute food to hundreds of port truck drivers impacted by the coronavirus Covid-19 crisis, during a mobile drive-through food pantry, April 22, 2020 in Long Beach, California.
Published on Apr 27, 2020 10:34 am IST

Activists say 65-yr-old died due to starvation

According to activist Mithilesh Kumar, Munda’s family members said they had not eaten for days. Image used for representational purpose only.
Published on Jun 08, 2019 12:03 am IST

Death of 3 Delhi sisters: Hunt on for missing father to unravel starvation mystery

The residence in the east Delhi neighbourhood where the siblings, aged 8, 4 and 2 years, died of starvation.
Updated on Jul 27, 2018 09:11 am IST

BJP says AAP responsible for death of 3 sisters due to starvation in Delhi; Congress attacks both parties

Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Manoj Tiwari meets the mother and a relative of the three girls who died allegedly of starvation in Mandawali area, in New Delhi on Thursday.
Updated on Jul 26, 2018 04:27 pm IST

Death of 3 Delhi sisters: Stomach was absolutely empty, they died of starvation, says doctor

A doctor at Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital pronounced the deaths a case of ‘gross malnutrition’.
Updated on Jul 26, 2018 02:19 pm IST