Lucknow: More than 60 people were arrested here for defecating along the railway tracks during a safety drive, a railway official said Thursday. Sixty-one people were found defecating along the tracks when railway officials were conducting a drive near the Daliganj station after it was reported that a clip, usedContinue Reading
Alok K N Mishra New Delhi: The Bheem Nagar jhuggi cluster in Nangloi, west Delhi, makes a mockery of PM Modi’s ambitious Swachh Bharat Mission. Not only are slum dwellers here forced to defecate in the open, locals claim more than 50 people have lost their lives in the process.Continue Reading
New Delhi: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday declared Kerala as an open defection free state. “Kerala becomes first high density populated state in the country to achieve Open Defecation Free status today on its formation day,” Vijayan tweeted. The milestone was achieved after the government constructed nearly 1.75 lakhContinue Reading
Kumwar Bai sold her goats to build toiletsContinue Reading
Ajmer/Udaipur: Giving a clear and loud message against open defecation, some brothers in Ajmer and Udaipur have gifted something unique to their sisters. On Thursday they got a toilet constructed and gifted it to the sisters on occasion of Raksha Bandhan. Taking it as a unique example, some others haveContinue Reading
Around 48 million children or two in every five children under the age of five years in India are stunted, making India home to largest number of stunted children in world in terms of volumes, a new report today said. “India, the world’s second most populous nation and a countryContinue Reading
Agra: Jeenat and Kajal of Aamor village in Madanpur block of Firozabad district could well be the new poster girls for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat campaign as they have refused to have the ‘nikah’ ceremony with their fiances till their families construct toilets in their homes. Engaged toContinue Reading
Bhopal: In an attempt to eliminate open defecation in rural and urban areas, Madhya Pradesh panchayat and cooperatives minister Gopal Bhargava has warned that people found committing nuisance in the open will stand to lose their ration card and gun license. The Congress retorted saying that the minister should insteadContinue Reading