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The two marines were detained on Sunday Italy's junior foreign minister is due to meet Indian officials in the capital, Delhi, amid a diplomatic row over the killing of two fishermen.Staffan De Mistura will meet India's junior foreign minister Praneet Kaur later on Wednesday, officials say.
Two members of an Italian navy security team accused in the shooting of the fishermen have been taken into custody.
Italy says the fishing boat behaved aggressively and ignored warning shots fired from the Italian oil tanker.
They said they opened fire after mistaking the fishermen for pirates. India said the fishermen were unarmed.
The incident took place off the coast of the southern state of Kerala last Wednesday.
It has sparked a major diplomatic row between the two countries, with Indian police opening a murder inquiry into the deaths.
Indian Defence Minister AK Antony has described the killings as "very serious" and an "unfortunate incident".
'Coercive action'Junior Foreign Minister Staffan De Mistura will "continue on a political level the action so far carried out by a delegation of experts from the Italian foreign, defence and justice ministries", the Italian foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
It said Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi will also visit Delhi next week to discuss the issue.
The foreign ministry also said that Indian police had taken "coercive" and "unilateral" action on Sunday when they escorted the two soldiers off the oil tanker where they were deployed as security guards and arrested them, news agency AFP reported.
The marines - identified as Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone - were detained on Sunday from the Italian ship Enrica Lexie and produced at the magistrate's court on Monday. They have been remanded in custody for two weeks.
The shooting incident has heightened diplomatic tensions between the two countries A delegation of experts from Italy's foreign, defence and justice ministries has already visited Delhi to discuss the case with Indian officials, but the two sides have so far been unable to resolve their differences.
Italy insists that its personnel cannot be charged under Indian law. It says the marines have immunity as the tanker was flying an Italian flag and was in international waters when the incident happened.
But India wants the marines to be tried under local laws and has registered a case of murder against the men, who could face the death penalty or life imprisonment if they are found guilty.
The Enrica Lexie was on its way from Singapore to Egypt, with a crew of 34, including 19 Indians. The Italians say the crew members fired in self-defence - after initially firing warning shots - because they feared their vessel was about to be attacked.
Indian officials say they are surprised at the shooting, maintaining that the fishermen did nothing to threaten the Italian ship.
A senior official in Kerala, PG Thomas, said the attack was unwarranted as there were "no weapons on the trawler".
Indian officials said nine of the 11 fishermen in the trawler were asleep and the two victims were steering it when the incident happened.
Following the incident, the Indian coastguard sent two boats and an aircraft to intercept the ship which is now anchored off the port of Kochi.
The Kerala state government has authorised a payment of 500,000 rupees ($10,125; £6,450) each to the dead fishermen's families.
Piracy has emerged as a major threat to merchant ships in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, with Somali pirates hijacking ships and their crews for ransom.
But there have been fewer attacks recently, partly because more armed guards are now deployed on board ships.
Delhi has one of the best-equipped police forces in India A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has criticised the city police's photographers, saying they do "not know what to click and from which angle".Judge Surinder S Rathi made the remarks while acquitting six people charged with murder for lack of evidence.
He said police photographers had not taken a single picture of the actual murder site or of the victim showing details of injuries.
The capital has one of the best-equipped police forces in India.
Judge Rathi said none of the five photographs supplied by the police for the trial were helpful.
"As far as the photographing the spot of assault is concerned, I see that Delhi Police photographers are so poorly trained that they absolutely do not know as to what to click and from which angle," he was quoted as saying by the Press Trust Of India news agency.
Judge Rathi also wanted to know why the police photographer did not visit the hospital or the mortuary to take photographs of the victim so that the court could have a clear view of the nature of the injuries.
"Unless immediate steps are taken in this regard, poor, unprofessional quality of work of the crime team can lead to serious miscarriage of justice in many heinous cases," he said.
The court asked the city police chief to "formulate a specific training course for photographers and other crime team members in consonance with the best practices adopted by pivotal investigating agencies the world over".
Four million children will be given deworming pills in Delhi A campaign has been launched to deworm millions of children in the Indian capital, Delhi. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit kicked off the programme by giving deworming tablets to 50 children on Monday.
On Tuesday, up to 4 million children, aged two to 17, will get the tablets at government schools and health centres.
The campaign, launched in collaboration with Deworm the World, follows a study that shows that 16% children in Delhi are infected by worms.
'Worm free'"We found that many children were suffering from anaemia and they had worm infestation," Delhi Health Minister AK Walia told the BBC.
"All of them will be given tablets, which they have to chew. And that will be repeated after six months so all the children will be worm free," he said.
To publicise the programme, public service advertisements have been played on radio and published in newspapers.
Officials say they are targeting 4 million children in government schools, city slums and other poor areas.
The government hopes that this will address the problem of anaemia, malnutrition and low physical and mental development suffered by children who have worms.
"We have deployed several teams of doctors to supervise and monitor the programme," Mr Walia said.
Teachers and government health workers have been trained by the international organisation, Deworm The World.
"We've also supplied the pills to various locations for the campaign," said Sriram Raghavan of Deworm The World.
He said a similar project in Bihar, just over six months ago, had de-wormed 17 million children.
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Delhi's slum children face the life-long consequences of malnutritionSave the Children is warning that half a billion children around the world could be physically and mentally stunted unless more effort is made to fight malnutrition.
After conducting a survey across five developing countries it concluded that rising global food prices are largely to blame along with the failure of the international community to tackle the problem.
Many people questioned in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Peru said they were unable to afford nutritious foods like milk, meat and vegetables. Some revealed their children were skipping meals to help their families earn money for food and often went to bed hungry.
The charity says that children under two are most in need of help because the body and brain are developing fast at that age. Prolonged malnutrition for these children can irreversibly stunt their growth and reduce their IQ by as much as 15 points.
India is home to a third of the world's malnourished children. Some 43% of them suffer from malnutrition and three out of four are anaemic.
More than half of adults there polled by Save the Children said food prices have become their biggest worry and one in four said their children often have to go without meals, sometimes for a whole day.
Nasreen Khatoun lives in Bhagwanpura slum, one of the worst of many in New Delhi.
The 24-year-old's tiny home is crammed between other flimsy structures made from canvas, plastic and whatever can be found. Like most in this deprived area it has no electricity or running water.
But feeding rather than housing her family is Nasreen's biggest concern after already having lost two of her children to malnutrition. Both were two years old. Her daughter was the first to pass away.
"She died of acute malnutrition, she seemed to have dried up. She was just skin and bones," Nasreen told me.
"I thought it was some curse, some kind of evil spirit. The son who died was also acutely malnourished. One day all of a sudden he got pneumonia and he died."
There is little work in this area of Delhi and what there is pays a pittance. With her husband unable to work at the moment, Nasreen says getting food on the table is a permanent struggle.
"Prices have doubled of everything in the last one year. Everything is expensive the children eat only one meal a day. There is no assistance. We don't know what to feed our children," she explained.
Malnourished children go to slum feeding centres for foodNot far away crowds of young children and their mothers squeeze into a small government run feeding centre, one of more than 10,000 in Delhi.
The scrawny youngsters jostle for ladles of dhal in an area where nine out of 10 children need help.
"There are a lot of children who come here who are extremely malnourished," said Seroja, a helper at the feeding centre.
"Their eyes stand out and their bones stand out and their legs are really thin. So you can see them and tell obviously that they are extremely seriously malnourished."
Malnutrition does not only leave children hungry. It also lowers the body's resistance to disease, leaving children open to contracting serious conditions like TB and pneumonia.
Delhi paediatrician Dr RK Gupta confirms that it also can ruin the long-term physical and mental health of suffers under two.
Conditions are desperate for children living in the Delhi slums "If a child is malnourished in the first two years he's likely to remain malnourished in later life," he said.
"And definitely if he suffers from any disease he's likely to take longer to recover. In infancy or the first two years of life if malnutrition is there then intellectual capacity or physical development is all hampered."
A few miles away the damage done by early onset malnutrition is visible in the classroom, according to the vice-principle of a government school there.
Due to the stigma attached to the condition, the teacher concerned asked to remain anonymous.
"If poor parents are not able to give children a fully-balanced diet that has a great impact on their leaning ability," he told me.
Childhood malnourishment takes a physical and mental toll"In language some of them can read but not write. In mathematics for instance, I ask them to write 305 but instead of writing 305 they wrote 300 and five, as in three zero zero and five"
The result of all this, he says, is that few of these children will be able, when adults, to get jobs enabling them to escape the poverty that surrounds them and their families.
Save the Children says that, in addition to rising food prices, there are several other factors that put children at risk of malnutrition across the developing world.
These include the reluctance of some mothers to breast feed their children and a lack of access to fortified foods.
The charity is calling on the British government to stage a world summit on hunger in London around the time of the Olympics when leaders from around the globe will be gathered there.
In the meantime, having already lost two children, Nasreen Khatoun from Bhagwanpure will need all her energy to stop the same happening to the two she has left.
"Every evening I come back worried for my children, there is nobody to take care of them while I'm away. I'm worried for their health.
"I skip my meals so that I can feed my children. I borrow, I even lie to somehow get money to feed them. Poverty breaks you down but you should be hopeful and strong.
"Till the time I have the strength and the will, I will fight. With whatever means I can manage, I will carry on."
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Delhi has one of the best-equipped police forces in India A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has criticised the city police's photographers, saying they do "not know what to click and from which angle".Judge Surinder S Rathi made the remarks while acquitting six people charged with murder for lack of evidence.
He said police photographers had not taken a single picture of the actual murder site or of the victim showing details of injuries.
The capital has one of the best-equipped police forces in India.
Judge Rathi said none of the five photographs supplied by the police for the trial were helpful.
"As far as the photographing the spot of assault is concerned, I see that Delhi Police photographers are so poorly trained that they absolutely do not know as to what to click and from which angle," he was quoted as saying by the Press Trust Of India news agency.
Judge Rathi also wanted to know why the police photographer did not visit the hospital or the mortuary to take photographs of the victim so that the court could have a clear view of the nature of the injuries.
"Unless immediate steps are taken in this regard, poor, unprofessional quality of work of the crime team can lead to serious miscarriage of justice in many heinous cases," he said.
The court asked the city police chief to "formulate a specific training course for photographers and other crime team members in consonance with the best practices adopted by pivotal investigating agencies the world over".
Four million children will be given deworming pills in Delhi A campaign has been launched to deworm millions of children in the Indian capital, Delhi. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit kicked off the programme by giving deworming tablets to 50 children on Monday.
On Tuesday, up to 4 million children, aged two to 17, will get the tablets at government schools and health centres.
The campaign, launched in collaboration with Deworm the World, follows a study that shows that 16% children in Delhi are infected by worms.
'Worm free'"We found that many children were suffering from anaemia and they had worm infestation," Delhi Health Minister AK Walia told the BBC.
"All of them will be given tablets, which they have to chew. And that will be repeated after six months so all the children will be worm free," he said.
To publicise the programme, public service advertisements have been played on radio and published in newspapers.
Officials say they are targeting 4 million children in government schools, city slums and other poor areas.
The government hopes that this will address the problem of anaemia, malnutrition and low physical and mental development suffered by children who have worms.
"We have deployed several teams of doctors to supervise and monitor the programme," Mr Walia said.
Teachers and government health workers have been trained by the international organisation, Deworm The World.
"We've also supplied the pills to various locations for the campaign," said Sriram Raghavan of Deworm The World.
He said a similar project in Bihar, just over six months ago, had de-wormed 17 million children.
Four million children will be given deworming pills in Delhi A campaign has been launched to deworm millions of children in the Indian capital, Delhi. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit kicked off the programme by giving deworming tablets to 50 children on Monday.
On Tuesday, up to 4 million children, aged two to 17, will get the tablets at government schools and health centres.
The campaign, launched in collaboration with Deworm the World, follows a study that shows that 16% children in Delhi are infected by worms.
'Worm free'"We found that many children were suffering from anaemia and they had worm infestation," Delhi Health Minister AK Walia told the BBC.
"All of them will be given tablets, which they have to chew. And that will be repeated after six months so all the children will be worm free," he said.
To publicise the programme, public service advertisements have been played on radio and published in newspapers.
Officials say they are targeting 4 million children in government schools, city slums and other poor areas.
The government hopes that this will address the problem of anaemia, malnutrition and low physical and mental development suffered by children who have worms.
"We have deployed several teams of doctors to supervise and monitor the programme," Mr Walia said.
Teachers and government health workers have been trained by the international organisation, Deworm The World.
"We've also supplied the pills to various locations for the campaign," said Sriram Raghavan of Deworm The World.
He said a similar project in Bihar, just over six months ago, had de-wormed 17 million children.
