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<br /><ul><li><strong>India aims to end hunger by 2030, under its <keyword id="55804" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="sustainable-development">Sustainable Development</keyword> goals.<br /></strong></li><li><strong>Despite that, stunting in India has reduced by merely 1% annually, in the last ten years.<br /></strong></li><li><strong>Nearly one-third (31.4%) of the children below five years of age in India will be stunted by 2022, according to a report by the United Nations and the Ministry of Statistics.</strong></li></ul>India could be very far from its sustainability target to end hunger by 2030.<br /><br />Due to acute malnutrition among children aged between one to five years, nearly one-third (31.4%) of Indian children will be stunted by 2022, predicts a report by the United Nations and the Ministry of Statistics.<br /><br />A recent UN report says that the country should <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/314-of-indian-children-will-be-stunted-by-2022-report/article28138523.ece">reduce stunting by 2%</a> annually to reach its sustainability targets. <br /><br />The World Food Programme Report released this week says that stunting in India reduced by merely 1% annually since 2009. This is the slowest among the developing economies, including Asian countries.<br /><br />India is already home to almost 31% of the world's <keyword id="71213" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Stunted-children">stunted children</keyword> at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india-left-out-women-from-its-largest-child-nutrition-program-study/articleshow/68201093.cms">46.6 million</a> recorded last year, says the Global Nutrition Report. <br /><br />“Despite India becoming self-sufficient in foodgrain production with a large increase in the production of rice, wheat, and other cereals, the per capita availability of these grains has not increased at the same level due to inequality, population growth, food wastage and losses, and exports,” spokesperson of World Food Programme Herve Verhoosel said according to <a href="https://scroll.in/latest/928410/in-india-31-4-children-under-the-age-of-five-will-be-stunted-by-2022-un-report">report</a>s. <br /><br />Child stunting has been the highest in states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. Kerala, Goa, Puducherry, Daman &amp; Diu, Tripura and Andaman &amp; Nicobar have reached their sustainability goals.<br /><br />According to government think tank NITI Aayog, merely <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/81-of-all-infants-in-india-are-deprived-of-proper-nutrition-says-government-thinktank-niti-aayog/articleshow/68402172.cms">9% of infants</a> in India, children between 6 to 24 months of age, received proper nutrition.<br /><br /><strong>See also:</strong><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india-left-out-women-from-its-largest-child-nutrition-program-study/articleshow/68201093.cms">India left out women from its largest child nutrition program: Study</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/81-of-all-infants-in-india-are-deprived-of-proper-nutrition-says-government-thinktank-niti-aayog/articleshow/68402172.cms">81% of all infants in India are deprived of proper nutrition, says government thinktank NITI Aayog</a><br />

A third of Indian children will be stunted by 2022, thanks to malnutrition

<br /><ul><li><strong>India’s child nutrition program may have left out women and poor from the benefits under <keyword id="481348" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Integrated-Child-Development-Services">Integrated Child Development Services</keyword> (ICDS).<br /></strong></li><li><strong>India is home to almost 31% of world’s stunted children with 46.6 million stunted children recorded last year, as per the Global Nutrition Report.<br /></strong></li><li><strong>The program was particularly lagging in ‘high malnutrition’ states — Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.</strong></li></ul>A government-run program to curb undernutrition in India may have <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/indias-child-nutrition-programme-excludes-poorest-households-study/articleshow/68196603.cms">left out</a> less educated women and poorest households from accessing benefits of the nutrition program, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).<br /><br />Launched in 1975, the program — Integrated Child Development Services — gained momentum in the country from 2006 to 2016. Overall, the program aims to foster children under the age of six years and pregnant and lactating women, providing food, education and healthcare facilities. <br /><br />With alarming levels of undernutrition in India, the program plays a key role — in 2015 it served an estimated 102 million women and children in the country.<br /><br />However, the study has shown that the program, initially aimed at disadvantaged castes and tribes, lagged in <a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/fewer-gains-for-child-nutrition-plan-in-up-bihar-study-119022800193_1.html">high malnutrition states</a> of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Worryingly, it revealed that pregnant women with low education received far fewer services compared to other people.<br /><br />The study’s authors point to logistical challenges to reach these communities.<br /><br />"Even in better performing states, exclusion of poor could be due to challenges of reaching remote areas, despite attempts to close district-wise equity gaps or local challenges of exclusion within villages due to caste or location-based exclusion," research co-author Kalyani Raghunathan said in a statement to IANS.<br /><br />The study found improvement in the program’s services in four key areas — supplementary food, health and nutrition education, health check-up, and child-specific services. Childhood supplementary food service growth saw a jump of eight percentage points from 2006 to 2016. The program covered more than 50% in the central and southern states of Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.<br /><br />India is home to<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/one-third-of-the-worlds-stunted-children-live-in-india/articleshow/66875512.cms"> almost 31%</a> of world’s stunted children at 46.6 million stunted children recorded last year, as per Global Nutrition Report.<br /><br />The study was the first to do an in-depth analysis on a national scale, study researcher Arindam Nandi<a href="http://v"> reportedly </a>said. <br /><br /><em>With inputs from IANS</em><br /><br /><strong>See also:</strong><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/one-third-of-the-worlds-stunted-children-live-in-india/articleshow/66875512.cms">India has over 46 million stunted children — that's more than the population of Australia and Sri Lanka put together</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/half-of-childhood-cancer-cases-go-undiagnosed-says-a-lancet-study/articleshow/68195268.cms">Half of childhood cancer cases go undiagnosed, says a Lancet study</a><br />

India left out women from its largest child nutrition program: Study

<br /><ul><li><strong>India dropped seven spots to 102 in the global hunger index over the last decade, thanks to <keyword id="6361617" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="climate-change">climate change</keyword> and economic slowdown. <br /></strong></li><li><strong>India’s rank improved to 102 from 103 last year — lowest among the South Asian countries.<br /></strong></li><li><strong>According to the report, merely 10% of Indian infants are provided minimum acceptable diet. <br /></strong></li><li><strong>Globally, at least one in every three children under five years of age is undernourished or overweight, <keyword id="56000" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="UNICEF">UNICEF</keyword> said.</strong></li></ul>Climate change and economic slowdown is hurting the most vulnerable of its citizens--infants. India dropped seven spots to 102 in the Global Hunger Index over the last decade. <keyword id="108578" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="International-Food-Policy-Research-Institute">International Food Policy Research Institute</keyword> which comes out with the index has marked India as ‘serious’.<br /><br />According to the report, merely 10% of Indian infants are provided with minimum acceptable diet. It also shows that infants and children below the age of five suffer the most. The index takes into account parameters like mortality rate and inadequate height and weight. <br /><br />India’s rank is the <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-falls-to-102-in-hunger-index-8-ranks-below-pakistan/articleshow/71606116.cms?from=mdr">lowest</a> amongst all South Asian countries and even Pakistan -- which crawled up to 94th place. <br /><br />“India’s child wasting rate is extremely high at 20.8%, the highest for any country in this report,” the <a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/india-takes-the-low-rung-ranked-102-in-hunger-index-of-117-countries-119101501494_1.html">report</a> said.The states of Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra have the maximum share in wasting percentage, said the National Family Health Survey of 2015-16. <br /><br />Globally, at least one in every three children under five years of age is either undernourished or overweight, UNICEF said.<br /><br />Children were eating too little of the food they need and too much of what they don't need. It added that "poor diets are now the main risk factor for the global burden of disease", Efe news said.<br /><br />The top spots in the GHI include countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, Cuba and Kuwait.<br /><br /><strong>See also:</strong><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/a-third-of-indian-children-will-be-stunted-by-2022-thanks-to-malnutrition/articleshow/69986703.cms">A third of Indian children will be stunted by 2022, thanks to malnutrition</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india-left-out-women-from-its-largest-child-nutrition-program-study/articleshow/68201093.cms">India left out women from its largest child nutrition program: Study</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/poor-diet-obesity-and-climate-change-strongly-linked-lancet-report/articleshow/67722970.cms">Climate change, obesity, and malnutrition are strongly linked: Lancet report</a><br />

Indian economic slowdown is leaving its infants hungry as only 10% are given acceptable diet

<br /> India has emerged as the world’s fastest growing economy. However, Asia’s third largest economy just ranked 97th among 118 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) released by the <keyword id="108578" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="International-Food-Policy-Research-Institute">International Food Policy Research Institute</keyword> (<keyword id="6557928" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="ifpri">IFPRI</keyword>). This puts the country behind even <keyword id="6354759" type="COUNTRY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</keyword>, <keyword id="41896" type="COUNTRY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Iran">Iran</keyword>, <keyword id="6355112" type="COUNTRY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Iraq">Iraq</keyword>, and <keyword id="6354767" type="COUNTRY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nigeria">Nigeria</keyword> in the hunger map.<br />
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India’s policy addressing hunger and malnutrition in all age groups has a feast of questions and a famine of answers. India’s hunger, being worse than any sub-Saharan country, needs crisis management and a long term vision. <br />
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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Excise-duty-in-cigarette-hiked-Tobacco-farmers-in-india-are-struggling-to-make-ends-meet/articleshow/56872791.cms">ALSO READ: Excise duty in cigarette hiked. Tobacco farmers in India are struggling to make ends meet</a><br />
<br /> Be it <keyword id="4227644" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="manohar-das">Manohar Das</keyword> of <keyword id="4227647" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="tewri">Tewri</keyword> village in <keyword id="6360371" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jharkhand">Jharkhand</keyword>, who works in hundred days of wage-employment or <keyword id="4227646" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="shib-baksha">Shib Baksha</keyword> of <keyword id="4227645" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="amlasol">Amlasol</keyword> village in <keyword id="61773" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="West-Midnapore">West Midnapore</keyword> district of <keyword id="6357783" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="West-Bengal">West Bengal</keyword>, who works as contract labour at nearby village, the thin line that connects them is the ignorance about ‘<keyword id="2209492" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Modi-Sarkar">Modi Sarkar</keyword>’. The only thing they understand by the government is getting staples at Rs 2/kg and free goodies. However, staples alone can’t fulfill nutritional needs, as a result they end up with stunted growth and other diseases. Not everyone is as lucky as them. Their neighbours, unable to procure <keyword id="49514" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="bpl">BPL</keyword> (below poverty level) identity cards and Ration Cards aren’t entitled to these basic facilities and have to starve most of the days. Only feast they can think of is ant eggs roast during the scorching summer months.<br />
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India’s overall GDP growth is expected to end at <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Excise-duty-in-cigarette-hiked-Tobacco-farmers-in-india-are-struggling-to-make-ends-meet/articleshow/56872791.cms">7.1% this financial year</a>, as compared to 4.6% two years back. While food still counts as the basic requirement of human existence, India is a country that not only produces enough, but ironically, there is never enough for its ever growing population to eat. Funnily, while millions go hungry, for <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Excise-duty-in-cigarette-hiked-Tobacco-farmers-in-india-are-struggling-to-make-ends-meet/articleshow/56872791.cms">India storage of surplus food</a> has always been a problem.<br />
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<strong>India’s hunger-management disaster</strong><br />
While development in many sectors is acknowledged, what is lesser known is that India has also made considerable progress on many social fronts, such as fertility decline, expansion of schooling and bridging the gender gap in education, especially at the primary and lower secondary levels. However, there is one <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Excise-duty-in-cigarette-hiked-Tobacco-farmers-in-india-are-struggling-to-make-ends-meet/articleshow/56872791.cms">area of human development</a>, where India has been a disaster: tackling hunger and malnutrition.<br />
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Child malnutrition rates in India are extraordinarily high- among the highest in the world, with nearly one-half of all children under 3 years of age being either underweight or stunted. Indeed, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Excise-duty-in-cigarette-hiked-Tobacco-farmers-in-india-are-struggling-to-make-ends-meet/articleshow/56872791.cms">child malnutrition rates </a>are higher in India than in many countries of sub-Saharan <keyword id="12925" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="Africa">Africa</keyword>, even though income levels are significantly higher and levels of infant and child mortality are lower in India.<br />
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<strong>Pediatric malnutrition</strong><br /> Prevalence of child malnutrition in India has remained stubbornly high even after nearly a half-century of respectable agricultural productivity growth and two decades of post-reform economic growth and prosperity in the country. Adding more support to the view that child malnutrition is weakly correlated with income is the finding that among children of mothers with 10 or more years of schooling as well as mothers from the top income quintile, around one-quarter are underweight. Even in a relatively prosperous and dynamic state like <keyword id="6354766" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gujarat">Gujarat</keyword>, child malnutrition rates have been stagnant over the past decade.<br />
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<br /> The <keyword id="121300" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="National-Family-Health-Survey">National Family Health Survey</keyword> (NFHS) found that a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/heres-how-indepay-is-making-rural-india-cashless/articleshow/57232771.cms">significant number of adults</a> in India suffer from malnutrition. Almost 58 per cent of pregnant women aged 15-49 were found to be anaemic. The Global Food Security Index also revealed that Indians lack adequate quantities of iron, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/heres-how-indepay-is-making-rural-india-cashless/articleshow/57232771.cms">Vitamin A and protein in their diets</a>.<br />
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“Half of the children who die before five years of age have malnutrion as a cause in their pathogenesis. If we look at proportion of weight at birth, 23 per cent of children weigh less than 2.5 kg, which is below normal. This low birth weight has its reason in the womb, which is where they are malnourished already before being born. Low birth weight increases over time and so by the time they are three-years-old, half the children are malnourished. Because of poor sanitation we have widespread <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/heres-how-indepay-is-making-rural-india-cashless/articleshow/57232771.cms">faecal oral contamination</a>. Water and food sources have high degrees of contamination and it results in diarrhoea and other gastro intestinal illnesses, which increases the child mortality rate,” said renowned public health specialist and activist Dr <keyword id="43944" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Binayak-Sen">Binayak Sen</keyword>.<br />
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<strong>State of famine</strong><br />
In 1943, three million people died in the infamous <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/author_articles_all.cms?query=%22Suchayan%20Mandal%22&amp;author=Suchayan-Mandal-479239841">Bengal famine</a>. There was no shortage of grain in <keyword id="6356978" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bengal">Bengal</keyword> at that time, yet people had nothing to eat. Interpreting the Famine of 1943,<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/author_articles_all.cms?query=%22Suchayan%20Mandal%22&amp;author=Suchayan-Mandal-479239841"> Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen </a>suggested that the reason for it was the breakdown of the social arrangement in distributing food. To put the matter in a world context, every three seconds somewhere around the world, a child dies of causes related to avoidable malnutrition. "In those three seconds, the world armaments industry spends 120,000 USD in order to keep the system responsible safely in place,” Binayak Sen told <keyword id="824043" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Business-Insider">Business Insider</keyword>.<br />
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<strong>Ignorant policies that do the most harm</strong><br /> Skyrocketing prices of daily food items spell more woe for the people, who are already paying "too much" to survive. International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (<keyword id="1367836" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="IFAD">IFAD</keyword>) Rural Poverty Report-2011 states, “While international food prices have declined since mid-2008, they are still substantially higher than prior to the price surge, and they are likely to remain at 2010 levels or higher for the next decade.” The report has suggested that about 100 million of world’s rural and urban people have to remain hungry.<br />
<br /> “It will remain high, the era of cheap food is over," said <keyword id="669006" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Richard-Mahapatra">Richard Mahapatra</keyword>, managing editor of Down to <keyword id="6359982" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="earth">Earth</keyword>. "This is because productivity of agriculture is low and thus impacts production. This is the supply side issue. Also the rainfed areas that contribute a signifcant amount of foodgrain is not getting the policy focus. Even though the new second Green <keyword id="24385" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="revolution">Revolution</keyword> is aimed at that, it seems to be flawed. Now, the demand side. Demand is increasing but we don't have robust distribution mechanism. So, it creates further price rise. Also, there is huge diversion of agricultural lands to other uses. Combined with low productivity, less lands and absence of distribution mechanism, we are set for high price rise.”<br />
<br /> Due to the PDS (<keyword id="89442" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Public-distribution-system">Public Distribution System</keyword>) and the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/author_articles_all.cms?query=%22Suchayan%20Mandal%22&amp;author=Suchayan-Mandal-479239841">public wage programmes</a> starvation deaths have definitely come down, he contended. Often we call cheap food grain programmes as populist. They are indeed popular as poor find them useful and their starvation is avoided with this entitlement.<br />
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<strong>Adult malnutrition</strong><br />
“Roughly 33-35 per cent of the entire Indian population have a BMI below 18.5, which is indicative of calorie malnutrition. They aren't getting enough food to eat. More than one-third of India is on a chronic basis not getting proper food to eat. Low BMI is also restricting people’s immunity,” said Binayak Sen.<br />
<br /> “Without addressing nutritional status, there can be no adequate development. Food Security Act does nothing for betterment of nutritional status of the poeple as such. <keyword id="250148" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-Bill">The Bill</keyword> is like 'something is better than nothing'. Five kilos of wheat per person per month make two chapattis per day. With two chapatis the nutritional question isn’t answered. This terrible nutritional deficit is yielding polarization in society,” he added.<br />
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<strong>Urban malnutrition</strong><br />
In villages, people stay in close bond with each other, who can be approached for help in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/author_articles_all.cms?query=%22Suchayan%20Mandal%22&amp;author=Suchayan-Mandal-479239841">times of crisis</a>. Migrating people in cities start living in slums and ghettos, where they have to live with people unknown and untrustworthy. Moreover, people fight here to make ends meet, which actually leads to self-centric attitude.<br />
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<strong>Red corridor hunger</strong><br />
“People who are in chronic situation and stable famine are able to withstand only because of their access to natural resources like land, water and forest," opined Binayak Sen. "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/author_articles_all.cms?query=%22Suchayan%20Mandal%22&amp;author=Suchayan-Mandal-479239841">Access to this resources was unrestricted</a>. Designating the common properties as commodities that can be owned by corporates is restricting poeple’s right to access and in a way right to live. Any form of resistance is labelled as insurgency. First they try civil ways and then take recourse in military measures. People have to confront. Application of eminent domain needs to be questioned. Under 5th schedule, govt has to ensure people’s access to natural resources but there is not a single instances of government intervening.”<br />
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“They have mapped it as red corridor but poeple’s deprivation hasn't been mapped yet," said Sen.<br />
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"We need to relook at the arm forces and UAPA laws. Whole discourse in election has become restricted to attitudes to development. Development is about accessing resources. Nobody is saying there are vital issues involved. What is going to happen to the poeple whose right has been denied? State will not be thwarted in its course. There needs to be a contestaion in the level of people. They need to raise the issue.”<br />
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<strong>Business Insider’s Take</strong><br />
Agriculture contributes around 16 per cent to<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/author_articles_all.cms?query=%22Suchayan%20Mandal%22&amp;author=Suchayan-Mandal-479239841"> India’s GDP</a>; it is coming down over the years. But still 60 per cent people depend on this. What does this mean? Is it that it is reliable as a source of livelihood or people don't have any other source thus depend on agriculture? In both the cases, shifting people out of agriculture is going to be a tough challenge. Industries or the service sectors have their own limitation and can't absorb such a huge number of people. Strategically, this will be a blunder as we kill out food self-sufficiency.

BI Investigation: India’s food nightmare is killing millions of
children across the country every day

In the Pindwara village of Rajasthan, a grassroots-level initiative led by local women has transformed the community's approach to nutrition. The women, part of a self-help group, began cultivating kitchen gardens to ensure a steady supply of diverse and nutritious food for their families. <br /><br />These gardens now yield various fruits and vegetables, contributing to a balanced diet and reducing the community's dependence on market-bought, often less nutritious food items. This initiative has improved health and empower women by giving them control over their family's nutrition. <br /><br />Similarly, in the tribal regions of Chhattisgarh, a collective effort by local community leaders has revitalized traditional agricultural practices. The community has reintroduced indigenous crops like millets and pulses, which are more resilient to the changing climate and require fewer resources to cultivate. These crops are rich in essential nutrients and have historically been part of the local diet. <br /><br />The community's efforts have not only preserved these traditional foods but also improved the nutritional status of the population, particularly children and women. These <keyword id="22748061" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="community-led" source="keywords">community-led</keyword> initiatives are part of a broader pattern observed in a recent study on <keyword id="22747862" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="diet-diversity" source="keywords">diet diversity</keyword> in <keyword id="20109648" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rural-India" source="keywords">rural India</keyword>. <br /><br />The qualitative study by NGO Vitamin Angels India and supported by UNICEF, conducted across several states, found that communities with strong local leadership and grassroots initiatives showed significant improvements in diet diversity and nutritional outcomes. <br /><br />According to government data, about 17% of children in the age group of 0-5 years are underweight, while 36% are stunted and 6% are wasted (too thin for their height, indicating acute malnutrition). Stunted, wasted, and underweight are key indicators of malnutrition in children aged 0-5 years. <br /><br />The research highlighted that while government programs and interventions are essential, the involvement and initiative of the community are critical to the success and sustainability of these efforts. <br /><br />One of the key findings of the study was that communities with active local participation in nutrition-related activities, such as kitchen gardening and the cultivation of traditional crops, had a higher intake of diverse and nutritious food. <br /><br />The research, which employed a mix of focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and home observations, reveals how collective and individual contexts -- ranging from socio-cultural norms to economic challenges -- influence dietary practices across different communities like the brick-kiln workers, fishers, and salt pan workers among others. <br /><br />This was particularly evident in regions where women played a central role in these initiatives. The study also noted that these communities were more resilient to food insecurity and were better able to cope with economic and environmental challenges. <br /><br />For example, the study looked into the lives of salt pan workers in Jodhpur who prioritize their children's nutrition despite financial hardships. They ensure that their children never go hungry, even if it means offering biscuits or bread-milk. It suggested that while government initiatives provide the necessary framework and resources, real change happens when communities take ownership of these programmes and adapt them to their local contexts. <br /><br />To enhance the effectiveness of nutritional interventions for pregnant women and children under five, several key recommendations emerge from the study. First, there is a critical need to strengthen the role of ASHA and Anganwadi workers, who are often the primary source of health information in many communities. By providing these workers with advanced training that equips them to offer tailored advice based on the specific socio-cultural and economic contexts of the families they serve, the reach and impact of nutritional programs can be significantly increased. <br /><br />Subsidies for essential complementary foods are another vital measure to address the financial barriers that many families face. These subsidies would ensure that even in economically disadvantaged households, children receive the necessary nutrients during crucial developmental stages, the study recommended. Additionally, promoting a blend of legacy knowledge with modern nutritional insights can lead to more culturally acceptable and effective practices. <br /><br />Health education programs that respect and incorporate local beliefs while introducing scientifically backed practices are likely to be more successful in achieving sustainable behavioral change. <br /><br />Support for maternal health is also paramount. Implementing programs that provide additional food or rest for pregnant women, particularly during the last trimester, can have a positive impact on both maternal and child health outcomes. <br /><br />These programs should be designed with an understanding of local familial structures and dynamics, ensuring that they are accessible and acceptable within the community. <br /><br />Community-based nutritional programs should be developed to emphasize the importance of child nutrition and encourage collective action. Workshops and informational sessions led by trusted community members or healthcare professionals can play a crucial role in disseminating knowledge and encouraging healthy practices. <br /><br />Finally, improving access to fresh and nutritious food, particularly in remote or economically disadvantaged areas, is essential. This could involve initiatives such as creating community gardens, improving market access, or providing transportation subsidies to reach markets with a wider variety of foods.

Community-led nutrition initiatives in rural India can boost diet diversity, empower women, says study

<br /><ul><li><strong>On 11 October, the <keyword id="6354424" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="world-bank">World Bank</keyword> released its first ever <keyword id="318873" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Human-Capital">Human Capital</keyword> Index (HCI), which measures how well countries enable the development of their human resources.<br /></strong></li><li><strong>Singapore topped the list while <keyword id="3658" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="India">India</keyword> came in at 115th, below Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. <br /></strong></li><li><strong>India’s Ministry of the Finance criticised the report, saying that its metrics were simplistic and that it hadn’t taken a number of government programmes into consideration. </strong><br /></li></ul>On 11 October, the World Bank released its first ever <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/human-capital">Human Capital Index</a> (HCI), which measures how well countries enable the development of their human resources and how much they stand to lose in terms of GDP by foregoing investment in <keyword id="6354750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="health">health</keyword> and <keyword id="6355445" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="education">education</keyword>. <br /><br />The goal of the report is to get finance ministers to think beyond short-term election cycles and focus more on children by allocating higher funds to healthcare and skill development. The World Bank hopes the index will become as popular as its Ease of Doing Business index.<br /><br />The HCI report assessed 157 countries on a number of indicators, ranging from child mortality, nutrition and stunting, average years of schooling and harmonised test scores. Each country was assigned a score from 0 to 1, with 1 denoting the best health and education outcomes possible.<br /><br />The list was led by Asian countries. Singapore came first, owing to the strength of its universal healthcare system, followed by South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong. Finland came fifth while the US came 24th. The bottom of the list was predominantly rounded out by African countries - Chad, South Sudan and Niger. Critics of the report said that it was an exercise in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/world-bank-aims-to-shame-with-human-capital-ranking-1539267790">shaming developing countries</a> for not investing enough in people. <br /><br />India came in at a lowly 115th, even below the likes of its smaller neighbours Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The report predicted that children in India would only be <a href="http://databank.worldbank.org/data/download/hci/HCI_2pager_IND.pdf">44%</a> as productive in adulthood compared to a scenario where all their education and health requirements were met. <br /><br /> As expected, the Indian government wasn’t happy with the results of the report. In <a href="http://www.pib.nic.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1549460">a press release</a>, the Ministry of Finance said that it had “serious reservations” about the way the index had been compiled. <br /><br />The finance ministry explained that the World Bank had failed to take into account the government’s various development initiatives like the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, which focuses on all 13 years of schooling and merges three separate public education schemes, and the recently-launched Ayushman Bharat health insurance programme. <br /><br />It also said that schemes like the Aadhar programme, the largest biometric identification scheme in the world, and the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, which aims to give every unbanked citizen a formal bank account, had gone a long in way in enabling financial inclusion and social protection. <br /><br />The government also said that metrics of the HCI were “simplistic” and “ignorant of development realities” and that the data used to gauge the quality of education was outdated. The statement concluded on a defiant note with the government saying that it planned to ignore the index. <br />

India has “serious reservations” about the World Bank’s new Human Capital Index, which ranked it 115 out of 157 countries

<br /><ul><li><strong>There have been 129 deaths due to the Acute <keyword id="6382102" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="encephalitis">Encephalitis</keyword> Syndrome (AES) in <keyword id="30033" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bihar">Bihar</keyword> so far.<br /></strong></li><li><strong>The National Research Centre on Litchi has denied speculations linking litchi to causing the syndrome.<br /></strong></li><li><strong>The state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences (<keyword id="40458" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="AIIMS">AIIMS</keyword>), Delhi, will soon study the actual cause behind the AES syndrome, which is listed under 'unknown category'. <br /></strong></li></ul>129 children have died so far in the Indian state of Bihar due to the latest outbreak of the acute encephalitis syndrome (AES). While poverty and lack of access to healthcare failed the children and their families, a humble fruit, litchi or <keyword id="1168849" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="lychee">lychee</keyword>, is taking the fall for the epidemic. The common ground between litchi and encephalitis is <keyword id="6374885" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Muzaffarpur">Muzaffarpur</keyword>, the centre of the outbreak and the country’s biggest litchi producing district.<br /><br />“We have witnessed around 20% decline in litchi sales in last one week after AES connection with this fruit,” <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/bihar-aes-outbreak-brings-litchi-sales-down-by-15-20/articleshow/69935680.cms">KP Thakur, managing director of a litchi processing and exporting firm, told the Times of India</a>. The fall in demand occurred after the state government of Bihar issued an advisory for parents to not allow their children to eat the fruit. The advisory was based on a speculation that litchi may be the major cause for the encephalitis syndrome, that affects children under the age of 10.<br /><br />"The cases of AES might be linked to litchi but the disease can be caused by a whole plethora of infections and encephalopathy situations," Professor Sheffali Gulati, Chief of Child Neurology Division, Department of Paediatrics AIIMS <a href="https://www.livemint.com/news/india/aiims-delhi-to-find-out-cause-of-aes-listed-in-unknown-category-1561276211601.html">reportedly said</a>.<br /><br />The speculations regarding litchi being the cause for encephalitis gets validity from <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3014212/encephalitis-lychees-kills-31-children-india-say-health">a research done by the United States in 2005</a>, stating that a toxic substance in the fruit may be the reason. <br /><br />On the other hand, Vishal Nath, Director of National Research Centre on Litchi, has denied the charge that litchi has any link to the cause of the disease. Litchi is sold in many other countries but we don’t hear such epidemics elsewhere, he argued in an interview with IANS, adding that the fruit was a rich source of vitamin B, Calcium, Potassium, Sodium and phosphorus.<br /><br /><strong>From pride to panic in six months</strong><br /><br />India exports a part of its litchi produce every year. The government of India wanted to promote the fruit earlier this year by giving it a ‘Geographical Indicator’ (GI) tag. “We have been waiting for GI tag for shahi litchi for a long time. The move has come as a boon for litchi cultivators of the region,” <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/muzaffarpur-shahi-litchi-gets-gi-tag/articleshow/66297801.cms">Nath had earlier said</a> adding that the GI tag will fetch them “good money.”<br /><br /><div type="javascript" title="Custom" contenttype="Video"><cdata><![CDATA[
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<br />Six months later, the same country is debating whether fruit is lethal for young children.<br /><br /><strong>The real reason</strong><br /><br />The debate over the dangers of litchi may distract from the actual reason where the national anger must pour over -- poverty and lack of access to basic healthcare, which millions suffer from 70 years after independence.<br /><br />It’s not just the poor children of Muzaffarpur who ate the fruit, but the ones who died were mostly poor. The United Nations’ Global Hunger Report for 2018 placed India at 103rd spot out of 119 countries. <br /><br />The National Family Health Survey says almost half of the children under five in Muzaffarpur are stunted, almost 60% were anaemic, and more than 40% were underweight. A health ministry survey found that none of Muzaffarpur's 103 primary health centres - and its only community health centre - were even considered fit for evaluation, <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/poverty-not-lychees-the-real-culprit-in-indian-brain-fever-outbreak/malnourishment-is-the-underlying-cause/slideshow/69888516.cms">the Economic Times reported</a>.<br /><br />The state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, will soon study <a href="https://www.livemint.com/news/india/aiims-delhi-to-find-out-cause-of-aes-listed-in-unknown-category-1561276211601.html">the actual cause behind the AES syndrome</a>, which is listed under 'unknown category'. <br /><br />The anxiety of the litchi farmers of Muzaffarpur will continue until the final results of the study are out.<br /><br /><br /><br />

India's tragic encephalitis epidemic has hit a humble fruit, Lychee, and its farmers

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Warning: There are major spoilers ahead for Marvel's "Thor: Love and Thunder." </li><li>The film features various cameos, including appearances from <keyword id="12020423" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="chris-hemsworth" source="Orion">Chris Hemsworth</keyword>'s family members. </li></ul><p>"<a href="https://www.insider.com/thor-4-love-and-thunder-details-information-2020-3">Thor: Love and Thunder</a>" is filled with appearances from <a href="https://www.insider.com/chris-hemsworth-facts-2019-8">Chris Hemsworth</a>'s family members, including his wife <keyword id="14404915" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elsa-pataky" source="Orion">Elsa Pataky</keyword>. </p><p>Taika Waititi's <a href="https://www.insider.com/thor-4-love-and-thunder-details-information-2020-3">latest "Thor" film</a> kicks off with villain <a href="https://www.insider.com/thor-love-and-thunder-christian-bale-gorr-nails-couldnt-eat-type-2022-6">Gorr the God Butcher</a>'s (Christian Bale) origin story before diving into a recap of the God of Thunder's life. The sequence, narrated by Waititi's character Korg, also fills fans in on what Thor has been up to since fans last saw him in 2019's blockbuster <keyword id="11897475" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="movie" source="Orion">movie</keyword> "Avengers: Endgame."</p><p>Korg says that Thor has had a lot of fun and many love interests, including a swashbuckling pirate, a wolf woman, and, of course, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman). </p><p>Viewers who have followed Thor's time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since his first standalone movie in 2011 are familiar with his and Jane's love story. But Thor's recent romances with the two other aforementioned women are entirely new. </p><p>Portman's "Love and Thunder" stunt double, Zia Kelly, plays the pirate that Thor kisses on a boat.</p><p>More notably, "Fast and Furious" actress Pataky, who has been married to Hemsworth since 2010, portrays the woman who passionately kisses Thor while atop a giant wolf. </p><div type="image" title="Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth in Australia in June 2022." height="4323" width="5765" msid="92753763" hostid="261" sizebytes="1015398"></div><p>This isn't the first time Pataky has shared the screen with her husband.</p><p>She previously appeared in "Thor: The Dark World" as a stand-in for Portman at the movie's end to kiss Hemsworth.</p><p>"They put his wife in my wig and costume – that's why it was so passionate. It was such a perfect solution, wasn't it?" <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/portman-wasn-kissing-hemsworth-final-thor-scene-article-1.1535144">Portman, who was unable to film the scene, told the New York Daily News in 2013</a>.</p><p>Coincidentally, there are other <a href="https://www.insider.com/fast-and-the-furious-stars-in-dc-marvel-movies-2021-8">"Fast and Furious" franchise actors who have also had roles in the MCU</a>. This includes Vin Diesel (the voice of Groot), Idris Elba (Heimdall), and <a href="https://www.insider.com/doctor-strange-2-end-credits-explained-2022-5">Charlize Theron (Clea)</a>.</p><p>Pataky isn't the only member of Hemsworth's family who appears in "Love and Thunder." Their twin sons, Tristan and Sasha Hemsworth, their daughter India Rose, and Hemsworth's brother Luke Hemsworth <a href="https://www.insider.com/thor-love-and-thunder-cameos-celebrities-appearances-2022-7">have roles in the film.</a></p><p>The couple's 8-year-old son Tristan portrays a young version of Thor in the movie's montage of the character running through the woods. Sasha appears as one of many Asgardian children that Gorr takes hostage and their 10-year-old daughter plays Gorr's daughter who's nicknamed Love by the end of the movie.</p><p>Luke, Hemsworth's older brother who popped up in "Thor: Ragnarok," returns as an Asgardian actor who portrays Thor in a play. </p><div type="image" title="Chris Hemsworth as Thor in &quot;Thor: Love and Thunder.&quot;" height="1191" width="1589" msid="92753767" hostid="261" sizebytes="58984"></div><p>In a <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinMcCarthyTV/status/1541406060812144640">recent interview</a> with <keyword id="11896019" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="entertainment" source="Orion">entertainment</keyword> reporter Kevin McCarthy, Hemsworth said that it was "really cool" having his kids be part of "Love and Thunder."</p><p>"They really wanted to be in it," he said.</p><p>"It felt like a one-off fun family experience," Hemsworth added. "I don't want them to now go and be child stars and actors. It was just a special experience we all had."</p><p><em>You can follow along with more of our "Thor: Love and Thunder" coverage<a href="https://www.insider.com/category/thor-love-and-thunder"> here</a>.</em></p>

A 'Fast and Furious' star has a brief cameo in 'Thor: Love and Thunder' that you probably missed

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In a first for the country, a sitting Prime Minister- in this case,<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=narendra+modi&amp;sortorder=effectivedate"> Narendra Modi </a>was giving an hour long one-on-one interview to an Indian journalist working at a private news channel.<br />
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And, when that journalist turns out to be one other than fiery <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=arnab+goswami&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Arnab Goswami</a>, the self-appointed voice of the nation, things are bound to get interesting.<br />
<br /> But, unfortunately the interview didn’t quite have the fireworks that we were expecting and instead showed us something that we never thought was possible- a tame <keyword id="563971" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Arnab-Goswami">Arnab Goswami</keyword>.<br />
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There’s a running joke on the internet that basically implies that Arnab Goswami actually let Modi’s answers decide his questions. While we can’t vouch for that, we can certainly say that there was a stark difference in the Goswami we are used to seeing every night at 9 pm. (Where did the yelling go? Who knew Goswami could talk?)<br />
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On Modi’s part, there was much that he said that we hadn’t already heard before, but our Prime Minister was indeed candid about certain issues.<br />
<br /> Here are the five most important things we learnt from <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword>’s interview:<br />
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<strong>1.     </strong><strong>Our Prime Minister loves <keyword id="6358908" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Raghuram-Rajan">Raghuram Rajan</keyword> as much as we do</strong><br />
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RBI Governor <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=RAGHURAM+RAJAN&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Raghuram Rajan</a> courted controversy when he announced that he would not be continuing as the RBI Governor for the second term. <keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword> Leader <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=SUBRAMANIAN+SWAMY&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Subramanian Swamy</a>, who in the past had sought Rajan’s resignation and even wrote to the Prime Minister regarding the same, even took credit for Rajan’s exit.<br />
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What Indians were curious to know was PM Modi’s view on the matter, considering Swamy is from his own party. And, finally yesterday we had the answer-<br />
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“I believe Raghuram Rajan’s patriotism is no less than any of ours. It will be doing injustice to him if one says that he will serve the country only if he is at a particular post. As much as I know Raghuram Rajan, whatever post he holds, wherever he is, he is someone who will continue to serve the country. He is someone who loves his country. Therefore, it's not like the nation won't get Raghuram Rajan's services, Raghuram Rajan is not that kind of a person. He is a person who loves the country. Those who speak such language are doing great injustice to him. My experience with him has been good. I appreciate the work he has done. And my good wishes will always be with him.”<br />
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<strong>2.     </strong><strong>Modi also indirectly asked Subramanian Swamy from a public forum to shut it.</strong><br />
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 <br /> To say that <keyword id="3449506" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="subramian-swamy">Subramian Swamy</keyword> is controversy’s favourite child would be a gross understatement. But, Modi made it known on live television that he is not in favour of such behaviour.<br />
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"Whether it is someone from my party or not, I believe that such things (criticism of government officials) are inappropriate. The nation won't benefit from such publicity stunts. One should be more responsible while conducting themselves. Anyone who believes he is bigger than the system is wrong,"<br />
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<strong>3.     </strong><strong>Black money? What black money?</strong><br />
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When Narendra Modi was elected as Prime Minister, he had basically announced that he would personally see to it that all the black money stashed away in foreign accounts would make their way back to India.<br />
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But, one year later, Modi’s forgotten his promise to the nation and instead treated it as laughing matter.<br />
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When Goswami asked him about the opposition’s claim that every Indian could get Rs 15 lakh in their bank account, this is what Modi had to say-<br />
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"That is something the opposition raises during elections. Let them have some issue to talk about."<br />
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<strong>4.     </strong><strong>Why does Narendra Modi fly out of the country so much?</strong><br />
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And, finally the answer we’ve all waited for answered by Narendra Modi, in (to everyone’s surprise) third person<br />
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<strong>"</strong>The world didn't know me. The world wants to know who the head of the state is. If someone would want to know Modi through the eyes of the media, then he would be disillusioned on which Modi is the real Modi. If this happens, the country will be at a loss. Modi's personality shouldn't be a hindrance for the world to have faith in India. But for that unless I meet all those leaders and engage them them one to one, unless I speak to them frankly, they wouldn't know about India's head of state, so it was very important for me as I am not from a political family. I never had the opportunity to meet the world leaders earlier." <br />
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<strong>5.     </strong><strong>Even Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India is scared of making jokes.</strong><br />
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When Arnab Goswami tried asking the PM whether his US speech was impromptu or not, Modi without answering a clear Yes or No added that he has a humorous side but feels that it is risky to show that side these days.<br />
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On being prodded, this is what he said-<br />
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“In this era of 24/7 news channels, anybody can lift a small word and make a big issue out of it. But I will tell you the truth, the reason for the absence of humour in public life is this fear. I am myself scared . Earlier when I used to make speeches, I would make it so humourous but there would never be any issues.”<br />
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So has our Prime Minister become more conscious now?<br />
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“I am not conscious. I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear. Everyone is scared. I am in fear. My speeches used be humorous. I see it in Parliament, that humour is finished there too. It is a matter of concern.”<br />
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave an interview to
Times Now and here are the five things we learnt

<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Donald Trump is officially the president-elect of the United States, and, come January, we'll have a new first family in the White House.</span></p><p>Trump&#xa0;has two sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, and a daughter, Ivanka, with first wife Ivana; a daughter, Tiffany, with second wife Marla Maples; and a 10-year-old son, Barron, with current wife Melania.&#xa0;</p><p>Having grown up in the spotlight, his three eldest children manged to find success and happiness while sidestepping the usual celebrity kid drama.&#xa0;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, 23-year-old Tiffany recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and often hits the town with Manhattan's so-called <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-hang-out-with-the-rich-kids-of-instagram-2015-9">"Rich Kids of Instagram."</a>&#xa0;And young Barron is busy just&#xa0;hanging out on his&#xa0;<a href="http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/news/g2296/donald-trump-kids/">own floor of</a>&#xa0;Trump Tower.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Here's everything you need to know about each of the Trump heirs.&#xa0;</span></p><h2><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">DONALD JR., 38, son of Ivana&#xa0;</span></h2><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A father of five, Donald Jr. was 12 years old when Ivana and Donald Sr. divorced. Unlike his younger siblings, he was old enough to understand what the nasty divorce headlines meant - his classmates were, too.&#xa0;</span></span></p><p>As a child he was extremely close to his maternal grandfather, Milos, who passed away in 1990. The two would spend a couple of weeks every summer hunting and fishing in a town outside of Prague (Ivana is Czechoslovakian). The fast-talking Donald Jr. is <a href="http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/news/g2296/donald-trump-kids/">fluent in Czech</a> and named one of his sons Tristan Milos, after his grandfather.<span>&#xa0;</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After boarding school (Pennsylvania's prestigious Hill School), he followed in his father's footsteps - as most of the Trump kids have - to The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he&#xa0;<span>earned his bachelor's degree in finance and real estate.</span></span></p><p><span><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A 2004&#xa0;</span><a href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/10610/" target="_blank">New York magazine profile</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;noted Donald Jr.'s propensity for drinking and getting into "do-you-have-any-idea-who-I-am? fights" in college, but he later&#xa0;</span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/04/09/tmz-is-wrong-about-donald-trump-jr-and-safari-hunting/" target="_blank">told Forbes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;that his love of hunting kept him on the straight and narrow. "[While]&#xa0;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;" id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-45d4-12a7-fc39-f8fb8de33d14">other people I knew were getting into trouble, I was somewhere in a deer stand or going to bed early so I could be up before dawn to hunt turkeys," he said.</span></p><p>In 2001, a year after he graduated from college, Donald Jr. went to work for his dad for the second time. (The first time was when he was 13&#xa0;<span>and earning minimum wage plus tips as a dock attendant at Trump Castle.)&#xa0;</span><span>Now an executive vice president of development and acquisitions at The Trump Organization, he cut his teeth with the development of&#xa0;</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-45de-5b70-96b6-7e4ad8a94286">Trump Place at West Side Yards and has gone on to spearhead projects in Chicago, Las Vegas, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-bullied-a-90-year-old-woman-over-scottish-golf-course-2015-6" target="_blank">Scotland</a>, and India.&#xa0;</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Thanks to a fix-up from his dad, he met his wife, Vanessa, at a fashion show. He caught a lot of heat for proposing to her in front of a jewelry store with a bunch of photographers standing by. The rumor mill <a href="http://nypost.com/2004/11/12/trump-jr-is-the-cheapest-gazillionaire-heirhead-proposes-with-free-100g-ring/">called</a> it a publicity stunt and claimed he'd gotten the $100,000 ring on trade. But as the happy couple has welcomed five children in the past seven years,&#xa0;that news story has long since been buried. &#xa0;</span></p><h2>IVANKA, 35, daughter of Ivana</h2><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ivanka is the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trumps-brand-2016-8" target="_blank">breakout success</a> of the family. The same year that she and brothers Donald Jr. and Eric founded the&#xa0;Trump Hotel Collections, Ivanka launched a jewelry brand that has spawned clothing, shoe, and accessories lines carried by the likes of Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, and Zappos.&#xa0;</span></span></p><p>An avid runner and&#xa0;<a href="http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/ivanka_trump/" target="_blank">former runway model</a>, Ivanka is an executive vice president of acquisitions and development for The Trump Organization. But she didn't go straight from The Wharton School to an office at Trump Tower. She worked for real estate developer Bruce Ratner for a year after college. And&#xa0;a <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2013/03/25/as-ivanka-trump-enters-her-prime-she-has-never-been-more-important-to-the-family-business/#6afbe4402ce2">2013 Forbes profile</a> indicates that she politely declined a job offer from Vogue's Anna Wintour.&#xa0;</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Specializing in deal-making and design, Ivanka&#xa0;joined her dad's company in 2005. She was the lead negotiator on the purchase of Trump National Doral Miami, a $1 billion property that she scooped up for $150 million.&#xa0;</p><p>Ivanka is private about her personal life, but before tying the knot with real estate and publishing scion Jared Kushner she was linked to Greg Hersch (now a wealth management SVP at UBS)<span id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-462b-e6e7-55f5-087c9da4eef9">&#xa0;and is said to have gone on a date with "That '70s Show"&#xa0;star Topher Grace.&#xa0;</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">She met her match in Kushner. The two live in a $16 million <a href="http://www.elledecor.com/celebrity-style/celebrity-homes/g273/ivanka-trump-apartment-kelly-behun-interiors/">penthouse atop</a> Trump Park Avenue with their three children, Arabella Rose, Joseph Frederick, and Theodore James Kushner. Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism before her 2009 wedding and the family keeps kosher and observes the Sabbath. "From Friday to Saturday we don't do anything but hang out with one another. We don't make phone calls," she <a href="http://www.vogue.com/11739787/ivanka-trump-collection-the-apprentice-family/">told Vogue</a>.</span></p><h2>ERIC, 32, son of Ivana</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>For a long time, Eric was the six-foot-five, media-shy baby of the family. He <a href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/10610/index2.html">told New York magazine</a> that his brother Donald Jr. is like his mentor and Ivanka is like his second mother. "She took me under her wing and raised me, took me shopping, tried to make me cool," he said.&#xa0;</p><p>Unlike his brother and sister, he chose Georgetown over Wharton and went straight to work for his father after he graduated.&#xa0;<span>He has the same EVP of acquisitions and development title as his brother and sister, but his niche is said to be in construction.&#xa0;<br><br /></br></span></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p><span><span>In 2012, he proposed to his then-girlfriend of five years,&#xa0;</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-4665-0a09-f499-1d1dc7b3c121">Lara Yunaska, at Seven Springs, his dad's $19.5 million Westchester estate, with a ring from sister Ivanka's fine jewelry collection. Yunaska is a former personal trainer and TV producer.&#xa0;</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The couple was married in front of 400 guests at Trump's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/staying-at-donald-trumps-mar-a-lago-2016-10">Mar-a-Lago Club</a> in Palm Beach, Florida. Eric's brother-in-law, Jared Kushner, officiated the wedding, <a href="http://pagesix.com/2014/11/09/eric-trump-weds-lara-yunaska-at-donalds-mar-a-lago-club/">reportedly telling</a> Yunaska, "Y</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;" id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-466b-30c9-7ea5-a86dd34fad23">ou are not just gaining a family, you are getting six million Twitter followers."<br><br /></br></span></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Eric also owns and operates Trump Winery, Virginia's largest vineyard, and has pledged nearly $28 million to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through his Eric Trump Foundation. &#xa0;&#xa0;</p><p>He and Lara split their time between Westchester and Manhattan, where Eric <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-06/trump-sold-two-central-park-south-condos-to-son-at-72-discount">owns several different units</a> at Trump Parc East.</p><h2>TIFFANY, 23, daughter of Marla Maples&#xa0;</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Unlike her half-siblings, Tiffany didn't grow up playing in her father's office - nor did she spend her summers helping him&#xa0;<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/07/17/inside-seven-springs-the-lavish-mansion-where-the-trumps-spent-summers/" target="_blank">fix up the grounds of Seven Springs</a>. Tiffany was raised by mother Marla Maples outside of Los Angeles.&#xa0;<span>There, she attended&#xa0;</span><span>Calabasas</span><span>' Viewpoint School, where <a href="http://www.viewpoint.org/page/admission/affording-viewpoint">tuition is</a>&#xa0;more than $30,000 a year.&#xa0;</span></p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Like her father, Tiffany graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Her sister Ivanka reportedly helped her snag an internship at Vogue, and in 2011 she dropped the single for her debut song, "</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Like-Bird-feat-Sprite-Logic/dp/B004MA3OZ2" target="_blank">Like a Bird</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">." She also had a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/fashion/tiffany-the-other-trump.html?_r=0">paid internship</a> at Warby Parker this past summer and is studying to take the LSAT.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Some of her friends are Manhattan's so-called <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-hang-out-with-the-rich-kids-of-instagram-2015-9">"Rich Kids of Instagram,"</a> including Peter Brant, Jr. (son of media mogul Peter Brant),&#xa0;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;" id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-46ad-97cb-ea2e-f4b48d9dc425">Gaia Matisse (Henri Matisse's great-great-granddaughter), and EJ Johnson (Magic Johnson's son), star of E!'s&#xa0;"Rich Kids of Beverly Hills" show.</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;</span></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">She loves to travel and her father's private jet comes in handy when she wants a change of scene.&#xa0;</span></p><h2>BARRON, 10, son of Melania&#xa0;</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>From the way Melania describes her 10-year-old son, he may be more like his father than any of his siblings. "He loves to build something and tear it down and build something else ... Sometimes I call him little Donald," she told <a href="http://www.parenting.com/blogs/hip-mama/melania-trump-shares-her-1-parenting-tip-and-secrets-lasting-marriage" target="_blank">Parenting.com</a>.&#xa0;</p><p><span>The young heir is said to prefer suits to sweatpants and <a href="http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/news/g2296/donald-trump-kids/">has an entire floor</a> to himself at his parents' Trump Tower penthouse. Melania <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/04/melania-trump-my-son-7-is-not-a-sweatpants-child/">famously told</a> ABC News that she slathers Barron in caviar moisturizer from her <a href="http://www.racked.com/2016/8/22/12556786/melania-trump-caviar-skincare-lawsuit">now-defunct</a> skincare line.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He <a href="http://m.cafemom.com/groups/read_topic.php?group_id=85166&amp;topic_id=11087397">celebrated</a> his fourth birthday with his entire preschool class at&#xa0;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Manhattan's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where the kids ate a cake shaped like Donald's private jet and went on submarine and airplane tours.&#xa0;</span></span></p><p><span><span>Melania says he plays baseball and tennis, but has a proclivity for his dad's favorite sport: golf. His parents keep him out of the public eye as much as possible, but he regularly attends the Trump Invitational Grand Prix at Mar-a-Lago and, when he was younger, Melania always took him to the Upper East Side's hottest children's social of the year, the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Bunny Hop.&#xa0;</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;</span></p><p><em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">April Walloga contributed reporting on a previous version of this article.</span></em></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/protesters-march-nyc-dc-los-angeles-chicago-tower-donald-trump-united-states-election-2016-11">Anti-Trump protesters are starting fires and blocking freeways all around the country</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="V1aDBpNzE6Ka_zqpzt9yk1GAfyQHi858" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

THE TRUMP 5: Meet the offspring of President-elect Donald Trump

<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We have a new first family in the White House.</span></p><p>President-elect Donald Trump&#xa0;has two sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, and a daughter, Ivanka, with first wife Ivana; a daughter, Tiffany, with second wife Marla Maples; and a 10-year-old son, Barron, with current wife Melania.&#xa0;</p><p>Having grown up in the spotlight, his three eldest children manged to find success and happiness while sidestepping the usual celebrity kid drama.&#xa0;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, 23-year-old Tiffany recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and often hits the town with Manhattan's so-called <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-hang-out-with-the-rich-kids-of-instagram-2015-9">"Rich Kids of Instagram."</a>&#xa0;And young Barron is busy just&#xa0;hanging out on his&#xa0;<a href="http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/news/g2296/donald-trump-kids/">own floor of</a>&#xa0;Trump Tower.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Here's everything you need to know about each of the Trump heirs.&#xa0;</span></p><h2><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">DONALD JR., 39, son of Ivana&#xa0;</span></h2><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A father of five, Donald Jr. was 12 years old when Ivana and Donald Sr. divorced. Unlike his younger siblings, he was old enough to understand what the nasty divorce headlines meant - his classmates were, too.&#xa0;</span></span></p><p>As a child he was extremely close to his maternal grandfather, Milos, who passed away in 1990. The two would spend a couple of weeks every summer hunting and fishing in a town outside of Prague (Ivana is Czechoslovakian). The fast-talking Donald Jr. is <a href="http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/news/g2296/donald-trump-kids/">fluent in Czech</a> and named one of his sons Tristan Milos, after his grandfather.<span>&#xa0;</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After boarding school (Pennsylvania's prestigious Hill School), he followed in his father's footsteps - as most of the Trump kids have - to The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he&#xa0;<span>earned his bachelor's degree in finance and real estate.</span></span></p><p><span><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A 2004&#xa0;</span><a href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/10610/" target="_blank">New York magazine profile</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;noted Donald Jr.'s propensity for drinking and getting into "do-you-have-any-idea-who-I-am? fights" in college, but he later&#xa0;</span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/04/09/tmz-is-wrong-about-donald-trump-jr-and-safari-hunting/" target="_blank">told Forbes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;that his love of hunting kept him on the straight and narrow. "[While]&#xa0;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;" id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-45d4-12a7-fc39-f8fb8de33d14">other people I knew were getting into trouble, I was somewhere in a deer stand or going to bed early so I could be up before dawn to hunt turkeys," he said.</span></p><p>In 2001, a year after he graduated from college, Donald Jr. went to work for his dad for the second time. (The first time was when he was 13&#xa0;<span>and earning minimum wage plus tips as a dock attendant at Trump Castle.)&#xa0;</span><span>Now an executive vice president of development and acquisitions at The Trump Organization, he cut his teeth with the development of&#xa0;</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-45de-5b70-96b6-7e4ad8a94286">Trump Place at West Side Yards and has gone on to spearhead projects in Chicago, Las Vegas, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-bullied-a-90-year-old-woman-over-scottish-golf-course-2015-6" target="_blank">Scotland</a>, and India.&#xa0;</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Thanks to a fix-up from his dad, he met his wife, Vanessa, at a fashion show. He caught a lot of heat for proposing to her in front of a jewelry store with a bunch of photographers standing by. The rumor mill <a href="http://nypost.com/2004/11/12/trump-jr-is-the-cheapest-gazillionaire-heirhead-proposes-with-free-100g-ring/">called</a> it a publicity stunt and claimed he'd gotten the $100,000 ring on trade. But as the happy couple has welcomed five children in the past seven years,&#xa0;that news story has long since been buried. &#xa0;</span></p><h2>IVANKA, 35, daughter of Ivana</h2><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ivanka is the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trumps-brand-2016-8" target="_blank">breakout success</a> of the family. The same year that she and brothers Donald Jr. and Eric founded the&#xa0;Trump Hotel Collections, Ivanka launched a jewelry brand that has spawned clothing, shoe, and accessories lines carried by the likes of Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, and Zappos.&#xa0;</span></span></p><p>An avid runner and&#xa0;<a href="http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/ivanka_trump/" target="_blank">former runway model</a>, Ivanka was formerly an executive vice president of acquisitions and development for The Trump Organization. But she didn't go straight from The Wharton School to an office at Trump Tower. She worked for real estate developer Bruce Ratner for a year after college. And&#xa0;a <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2013/03/25/as-ivanka-trump-enters-her-prime-she-has-never-been-more-important-to-the-family-business/#6afbe4402ce2">2013 Forbes profile</a> indicates that she politely declined a job offer from Vogue's Anna Wintour.&#xa0;</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Specializing in deal-making and design, Ivanka&#xa0;joined her dad's company in 2005. She was the lead negotiator on the purchase of Trump National Doral Miami, a $1 billion property that she scooped up for $150 million. But earlier in January, she resigned from her job at The Trump Organization in preparation for the move to Washington, DC.</p><p>Ivanka is private about her personal life, but before tying the knot with real estate and publishing scion (and now senior Trump adviser) Jared Kushner she was linked to Greg Hersch<span id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-462b-e6e7-55f5-087c9da4eef9">&#xa0;and is said to have gone on a date with "That '70s Show"&#xa0;star Topher Grace.&#xa0;</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">She met her match in Kushner, and they have&#xa0;three children: Arabella Rose, Joseph Frederick, and Theodore James Kushner. Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism before her 2009 wedding and the family keeps kosher and observes the Sabbath. "From Friday to Saturday we don't do anything but hang out with one another. We don't make phone calls," she <a href="http://www.vogue.com/11739787/ivanka-trump-collection-the-apprentice-family/">told Vogue</a>.</span></p><h2>ERIC, 33, son of Ivana</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>For a long time, Eric was the six-foot-five, media-shy baby of the family. He <a href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/10610/index2.html">told New York magazine</a> that his brother Donald Jr. is like his mentor and Ivanka is like his second mother. "She took me under her wing and raised me, took me shopping, tried to make me cool," he said.&#xa0;</p><p>Unlike his brother and sister, he chose Georgetown over Wharton and went straight to work for his father after he graduated.&#xa0;<span>He has the same EVP of acquisitions and development title as his brother, but his niche is said to be in construction.&#xa0;<br><br /></br></span></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p><span><span>In 2012, he proposed to his then-girlfriend of five years,&#xa0;</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-4665-0a09-f499-1d1dc7b3c121">Lara Yunaska, at Seven Springs, his dad's $19.5 million Westchester estate, with a ring from sister Ivanka's fine jewelry collection. Yunaska is a former personal trainer and TV producer.&#xa0;</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The couple was married in front of 400 guests at Trump's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/staying-at-donald-trumps-mar-a-lago-2016-10">Mar-a-Lago Club</a> in Palm Beach, Florida. Eric's brother-in-law, Jared Kushner, officiated the wedding, <a href="http://pagesix.com/2014/11/09/eric-trump-weds-lara-yunaska-at-donalds-mar-a-lago-club/">reportedly telling</a> Yunaska, "Y</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;" id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-466b-30c9-7ea5-a86dd34fad23">ou are not just gaining a family, you are getting six million Twitter followers."<br><br /></br></span></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Eric also owns and operates Trump Winery, Virginia's largest vineyard, and has pledged nearly $28 million to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through his Eric Trump Foundation. &#xa0;&#xa0;</p><p>He and Lara split their time between Westchester and Manhattan, where Eric <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-06/trump-sold-two-central-park-south-condos-to-son-at-72-discount">owns several different units</a> at Trump Parc East.</p><h2>TIFFANY, 23, daughter of Marla Maples&#xa0;</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Unlike her half-siblings, Tiffany didn't grow up playing in her father's office - nor did she spend her summers helping him&#xa0;<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/07/17/inside-seven-springs-the-lavish-mansion-where-the-trumps-spent-summers/" target="_blank">fix up the grounds of Seven Springs</a>. Tiffany was raised by mother Marla Maples outside of Los Angeles.&#xa0;<span>There, she attended&#xa0;</span><span>Calabasas</span><span>' Viewpoint School, where <a href="http://www.viewpoint.org/page/admission/affording-viewpoint">tuition is</a>&#xa0;more than $30,000 a year.&#xa0;</span></p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Like her father, Tiffany graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Her sister Ivanka reportedly helped her snag an internship at Vogue, and in 2011 she dropped the single for her debut song, "</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Like-Bird-feat-Sprite-Logic/dp/B004MA3OZ2" target="_blank">Like a Bird</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">." She also had a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/fashion/tiffany-the-other-trump.html?_r=0">paid internship</a> at Warby Parker this past summer and is studying to take the LSAT.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Some of her friends are Manhattan's so-called <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-hang-out-with-the-rich-kids-of-instagram-2015-9">"Rich Kids of Instagram,"</a> including Peter Brant, Jr. (son of media mogul Peter Brant),&#xa0;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;" id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-46ad-97cb-ea2e-f4b48d9dc425">Gaia Matisse (Henri Matisse's great-great-granddaughter), and EJ Johnson (Magic Johnson's son), star of E!'s&#xa0;"Rich Kids of Beverly Hills" show.</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;</span></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">She loves to travel and her father's private jet comes in handy when she wants a change of scenery.&#xa0;</span></p><h2>BARRON, 10, son of Melania&#xa0;</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>From the way Melania describes her 10-year-old son, he may be more like his father than any of his siblings. "He loves to build something and tear it down and build something else ... Sometimes I call him little Donald," she told <a href="http://www.parenting.com/blogs/hip-mama/melania-trump-shares-her-1-parenting-tip-and-secrets-lasting-marriage" target="_blank">Parenting.com</a>.&#xa0;</p><p><span>The young heir is said to prefer suits to sweatpants and <a href="http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/news/g2296/donald-trump-kids/">has an entire floor</a> to himself at his parents' Trump Tower penthouse. Melania <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/04/melania-trump-my-son-7-is-not-a-sweatpants-child/">famously told</a> ABC News that she slathers Barron in caviar moisturizer from her <a href="http://www.racked.com/2016/8/22/12556786/melania-trump-caviar-skincare-lawsuit">now-defunct</a> skincare line.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He <a href="http://m.cafemom.com/groups/read_topic.php?group_id=85166&amp;topic_id=11087397">celebrated</a> his fourth birthday with his entire preschool class at&#xa0;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Manhattan's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where the kids ate a cake shaped like Donald's private jet and went on submarine and airplane tours.&#xa0;</span></span></p><p><span><span>Melania says he plays baseball and tennis, but has a proclivity for his dad's favorite sport: golf. His parents keep him out of the public eye as much as possible, but he regularly attends the Trump Invitational Grand Prix at Mar-a-Lago and, when he was younger, Melania always took him to the Upper East Side's hottest children's social of the year, the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Bunny Hop.&#xa0;</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;</span></p><p><em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">April Walloga contributed reporting on a previous version of this article.</span></em></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/highlights-trump-obama-turbulent-relationship-isis-birth-certificate-2017-1">'He's the founder of ISIS': Watch Trump and Obama trade insults throughout the years</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="5hbzdpNzE6q_h95Ya6l5veaWA3lTdPI2" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Two divorces and three marriages seems par for the course if you're <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-homes-cars-planes-and-more-2015-6" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>, a man who freely admits that he's married to his business.&#xa0;</span></p><p>Settled down (maritally speaking) for now, Trump has two sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, and a daughter, Ivanka, with first wife Ivana; a college-age daughter, Tiffany, with second wife Marla Maples; and a 9-year-old son, Barron, with current wife Melania.&#xa0;</p><p>Having grown up in the spotlight, his three eldest children manged to find success and happiness while sidestepping the usual celebrity kid drama.&#xa0;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, 21-year-old Tiffany, an aspiring pop star who was raised in LA, is attending business school on the East Coast and hitting the town with Manhattan's so-called <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/rich-kids-of-instagram-summer-vacations-2015-6">"Rich Kids of Instagram."</a> And young Barron is busy just being a fourth-grader.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Here's everything you need to know about each of the Trump heirs.&#xa0;</span></p><h2><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">DONALD JR., 37, son of Ivana&#xa0;</span></h2><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A father of five, Donald Jr. was 12 years old when Ivana and Donald Sr. divorced. Unlike his younger siblings, he was old enough to understand what the nasty divorce headlines meant - his classmates were, too.&#xa0;</span></span></p><p>As a child he was extremely close to his maternal grandfather, Milos, who passed away in 1990. The two would spend a couple of weeks every summer hunting and fishing in a town outside of Prague (Ivana is Czechoslovakian). The fast-talking Donald Jr. is fluent in Czech and named one of his sons Tristan Milos, after his grandfather.<span>&#xa0;</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After boarding school (Pennsylvania's prestigious Hill School), he followed in his father's footsteps - as most of the Trump kids have - to The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he&#xa0;<span>earned his bachelor's degree in finance and real estate.</span></span></p><p><span><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A 2004&#xa0;</span><a href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/10610/" target="_blank">New York magazine profile</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;noted Donald Jr.'s propensity for drinking and getting into "do-you-have-any-idea-who-I-am? fights" in college, but he later&#xa0;</span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/04/09/tmz-is-wrong-about-donald-trump-jr-and-safari-hunting/" target="_blank">told Forbes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;that his love of hunting kept him on the straight and narrow. "[While]&#xa0;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;" id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-45d4-12a7-fc39-f8fb8de33d14">other people I knew were getting into trouble, I was somewhere in a deer stand or going to bed early so I could be up before dawn to hunt turkeys," he said.</span></p><p>In 2001, a year after he graduated from college, Donald Jr. went to work for his dad for the second time. (The first time was when he was 13&#xa0;<span>and earning minimum wage plus tips as a dock attendant at Trump Castle.)&#xa0;</span><span>Now an executive vice president at The Trump Organization, he cut his teeth with the development of&#xa0;</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-45de-5b70-96b6-7e4ad8a94286">Trump Place at West Side Yards and has gone on to spearhead projects in Chicago, Las Vegas, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-bullied-a-90-year-old-woman-over-scottish-golf-course-2015-6" target="_blank">Scotland</a>, and India.&#xa0;</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Thanks to a fix-up from his dad, he met his wife, Vanessa, at a fashion show. He caught a lot of heat for proposing to her in front of a jewelry store with a bunch of photographers standing by. The rumor-mill called it a publicity stunt and claimed he'd gotten the $100,000 ring on trade. But as the happy couple has welcomed five children in the past seven years,&#xa0;that news story has long since been buried. &#xa0;</span></p><h2>IVANKA, 33, daughter of Ivana</h2><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ivanka is the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-tips-to-achieve-success-2015-1" target="_blank">breakout success</a> of the family. The same year that she and brothers Donald Jr. and Eric founded the&#xa0;Trump Hotel Collections, Ivanka launched a jewelry brand that has spawned clothing, shoe, and accessories lines carried by the likes of Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, and Zappos.&#xa0;</span></span></p><p>An avid runner and&#xa0;<a href="http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/ivanka_trump/" target="_blank">former runway model</a>, Ivanka is an executive vice president of acquisitions and development for The Trump Organization. But she didn't go straight from The Wharton School to an office at Trump Tower. She worked for real estate developer Bruce Ratner for a year after college. And&#xa0;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cms/posts/edit?id=5592d90b6da8111e5a37e6bc" target="_blank">a 2013 Forbes profile</a>&#xa0;indicates that she politely declined a job offer from Vogue's Anna Wintour.&#xa0;</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Specializing in deal-making and design, Ivanka&#xa0;joined her dad's company in 2005. She was the lead negotiator on the purchase of Trump National Doral Miami, a $1 billion property that she scooped up for $150 million.&#xa0;</p><p>Ivanka is stealthily private about her personal life, but before tying the knot with real estate and publishing scion Jared Kushner she was linked to Greg Hersch (now a wealth management SVP at UBS)<span id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-462b-e6e7-55f5-087c9da4eef9">&#xa0;and is said to have gone on a date with "That '70s Show"&#xa0;star Topher Grace.&#xa0;</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">She met her match in Kushner. The two live in a $16 million penthouse atop Trump Park Avenue with their two children, Arabella Rose and Joseph Frederick Kushner. Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism before her 2009 wedding and the family keeps kosher and observes the Sabbath.&#xa0;"From Friday to Saturday we don't do anything but hang out with one another. We don't make phone calls," she told Vogue.</span></p><h2>ERIC, 31, son of Ivana</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>For a long time, Eric was the six-foot-five, media-shy baby of the family. He <a href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/10610/index2.html">told New York magazine</a> that his brother Donald Jr. is like his mentor and Ivanka is like his second mother. "She took me under her wing and raised me, took me shopping, tried to make me cool," he said.&#xa0;</p><p>Unlike his brother and sister, he chose Georgetown over Wharton and went straight to work for his father after he graduated.&#xa0;<span>He has the same EVP of acquisitions and development title as his sister, but his niche is said to be in construction.&#xa0;<br><br /></br></span></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p><span><span>In 2012, he proposed to his then-girlfriend of five years,&#xa0;</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-4665-0a09-f499-1d1dc7b3c121">Lara Yunaska, at Seven Springs, his dad's $19.5 million Westchester estate, with a ring from sister Ivanka's fine jewelry collection. Yunaska is a former personal trainer and TV producer.&#xa0;</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;</span></p><p class="embed-spacer"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The couple was married in front of 400 guests at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Springs, Florida. Eric's brother-in-law Jared Kushner officiated the wedding, telling Yunaska,&#xa0;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;" id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-466b-30c9-7ea5-a86dd34fad23">"You are not just gaining a family, you are getting six million Twitter followers."<br><br /></br></span></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Eric also owns and operates Trump Winery, Virginia's largest vineyard, and has pledged nearly $28 million to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through his Eric Trump Foundation. &#xa0;&#xa0;</p><p>He and Lara split their time between Westchester and Manhattan, where Eric owns a three-bedroom apartment at Trump Parc East that he bought from his father in 2007 for $2 million. &#xa0;</p><h2>TIFFANY, 21, daughter of Marla Maples&#xa0;</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Tiffany Trump is so new to the scene that she doesn't even have a Wikipedia page yet! &#xa0;</p><p>Unlike her half-siblings, she didn't grow up playing in her father's office - nor did she spend her summers helping him&#xa0;<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/07/17/inside-seven-springs-the-lavish-mansion-where-the-trumps-spent-summers/" target="_blank">fix up the grounds of Seven Springs</a>. Tiffany was raised by mother Marla Maples outside of LA.&#xa0;<span>There, she attended&#xa0;</span><span>Calabasas</span><span>' </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-468d-3c5c-d288-7ad2fd6c2777">$31,205-a-year Viewpoint School.&#xa0;<br><br /></br></span></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>In an interview with Oprah.com, Maples remarked that a then-17-year-old Tiffany was "<span id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-4695-a23a-448c-d9e96a6af906">getting to an age where she is studying business" and that soon she would "be able to look to her father to guide her."</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Fast-forward to today and Tiffany is studying at The Wharton School and hoping to break into either fashion or music. Her sister Ivanka reportedly helped her snag an internship at Vogue, and last year she dropped the single for her debut song, "</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Like-Bird-feat-Sprite-Logic/dp/B004MA3OZ2" target="_blank">Like a Bird</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">."</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Last October the bubbly California Trump</span><a href="http://pagesix.com/2014/10/12/tiffany-trump-celebrates-her-21st-birthday/" target="_blank">&#xa0;celebrated her 21st birthday bash</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;with a pack of young socialites dubbed "</span><a href="http://guestofaguest.com/new-york/instagram/rich-kids-of-instagram-nyc-edition" target="_blank">The Rich Kids of Instagram</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">." This summer she's been popping up on the Hamptons party circuit. Some of her friends are Harry Brant (son of media mogul Peter Brant),&#xa0;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;" id="docs-internal-guid-e2156928-46ad-97cb-ea2e-f4b48d9dc425">Gaia Matisse (Henri Matisse's great-great-granddaughter), and EJ Johnson (Magic Johnson's son), star of E!'s&#xa0;"Rich Kids of Beverly Hills" show.</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;</span></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">She loves to travel and her father's private jet comes in handy when she wants a change of scenery. We're sure her <span>Wikipedia</span>&#xa0;page will arise and fill up fast soon.&#xa0;</span></p><h2>BARRON, 9, son of Melania&#xa0;</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>From the way Melania describes her 9-year-old son, he may be the more like his father than any of his siblings. "He loves to build something and tear it down and build something else ... Sometimes I call him little Donald," she told <a href="http://www.parenting.com/blogs/hip-mama/melania-trump-shares-her-1-parenting-tip-and-secrets-lasting-marriage" target="_blank">Parenting.com</a>.&#xa0;</p><p><span>The young heir is said to prefer suits to sweatpants and has an entire floor to himself at his parents' Trump Tower penthouse. Melania famously told ABC News that she slathers Barron in caviar moisturizer (<span>from her skin care line,&#xa0;</span>priced at $50-$150 per product) every night.</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;<br /></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He celebrated his fourth birthday with his entire preschool class at&#xa0;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Manhattan's Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, where the kids ate a cake shaped like Donald's private jet and went on submarine and airplane tours.&#xa0;</span></span></p><p><span><span>Melania says he plays baseball and tennis, but has a proclivity for his dad's favorite sport: golf. 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