The chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated fowl, believed to be descended from the wild Indian and south-east Asian Red Junglefowl.The chicken is one of the most common and wide-spread domestic animals. With a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, from both their meat and their eggs.

India is among the hungriest countries in the world today and India's girl children and women are the most hungry among the people, experts here said on the occasion of World Food Day Tuesday.The average weight of an Indian woman is less than the world standard of 50 kg, and the weight of an Indian baby at birth is less than even that of b

Considered 'cursed' she was hit with a machete and shot by an arrow and left for dead. survived, although her wound became infected and she was left to live like an animal in the forest for three years. At five she was very undersized, still unable to walk and abused by other Indians. She survived only because a brother smuggled food to her.