Morning Briefing

"Roughly 42 percent of all Indian children under age five suffer from malnutrition, a sobering reminder of the persistence of poverty and hunger in the world's largest democracy, according to a major report released" on Tuesday by the Naandi Foundation, an independent charitable organization, the New York Times reports. "Levels of malnutrition, while still high, have fallen by 20 percent in the last seven years," the newspaper notes (Yardley, 1/10). "The Hunger and Malnutrition Survey monitored over 100,000 children in 112 districts across nine states in the country from October 2010 to February of last year," the Associated Press writes (1/10).