Build Toilets

Ahead of the G20 summit next year, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will build new toilets and repair old ones across its five zones in the city.

School in a hamlet in Shivamogga district had a toilet building, which went into disrepair, so the local authorities made temporary arrangements

France will turn off the hot water in the toilets of public buildings and order municipalities to reduce water temperatures at public swimming pools by 1 degree Celsius as part of broader plans to reduce energy consumption.

The prototype was produced as part of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched in 2011.

Lightning destroyed a single toilet in an apartment building in Oklahoma, US, during intense thunderstorms earlier this month. No one was injured as the apartment unit was vacant at the time.

Union Minister Smriti Irani asked people in Manipur on Friday whether they expect the Congress, which could not build toilets in the state, to shape their future.

Google aims to replenish 20 percent more water than its offices and data centres use by 2030, the company said, addressing concerns about water-guzzling tech facilities amid record droughts.

Programme implementation under phase two of Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) this fiscal will see the building of over 50 lakh individual household toilets and one lakh community toilets, Union Jal Shakti ministry Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said.

Smriti Irani lauded various efforts by the government to tackle issues faced by women, giving examples of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiatives to build 10 crore toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission and distribute sanitary napkins at Re 1 under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Kendra scheme.

PM Modi Saudi Arabia: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday said that he is not from a "political family" but carries a very humble background and selling tea on the railway platform was a part of his life journey. He said that constructing toilets and opening bank accounts have empowered the poor in India and have given them a se...

A seven-year-old girl in Tamil Nadu has lodged a police complaint to have her father arrested after he failed to build a toilet in their home as promised, police said today.

Together with Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan, the annual Banega Swachh India Cleanathon has worked relentlessly for five years to help build toilets in rural areas, conduct clean-up drives and spread awareness about sanitation, health and hygiene across India.

Despite the NDA government's focus on Uttar Pradesh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi making three trips to the state and showering infrastructure projects worth thousands of crores, a desolate and dilapidated school building in Faizabad has its own story to tell. Around 55 children and only one teacher spend their days in a building, which is falli...

Eighty-seven-year-old Rekha Devi, a Swacch Bharat Mission activist who had to build a toilet at her home with mud and stones, would now get a concrete facility as authorities provided financial assistance to her today.

The government has been running awareness programmes and even giving funds to people in villages to build toilets. Now, a village in Haryana has gone a step ahead to persuade people to invest in building toilets

Ahead of the G20 summit next year, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will build new toilets and repair old ones across its five zones in the city.

School in a hamlet in Shivamogga district had a toilet building, which went into disrepair, so the local authorities made temporary arrangements

France will turn off the hot water in the toilets of public buildings and order municipalities to reduce water temperatures at public swimming pools by 1 degree Celsius as part of broader plans to reduce energy consumption.

The prototype was produced as part of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched in 2011.

Lightning destroyed a single toilet in an apartment building in Oklahoma, US, during intense thunderstorms earlier this month. No one was injured as the apartment unit was vacant at the time.

Union Minister Smriti Irani asked people in Manipur on Friday whether they expect the Congress, which could not build toilets in the state, to shape their future.

Google aims to replenish 20 percent more water than its offices and data centres use by 2030, the company said, addressing concerns about water-guzzling tech facilities amid record droughts.

Programme implementation under phase two of Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) this fiscal will see the building of over 50 lakh individual household toilets and one lakh community toilets, Union Jal Shakti ministry Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said.

Smriti Irani lauded various efforts by the government to tackle issues faced by women, giving examples of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiatives to build 10 crore toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission and distribute sanitary napkins at Re 1 under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Kendra scheme.

PM Modi Saudi Arabia: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday said that he is not from a "political family" but carries a very humble background and selling tea on the railway platform was a part of his life journey. He said that constructing toilets and opening bank accounts have empowered the poor in India and have given them a se...

A seven-year-old girl in Tamil Nadu has lodged a police complaint to have her father arrested after he failed to build a toilet in their home as promised, police said today.

Together with Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan, the annual Banega Swachh India Cleanathon has worked relentlessly for five years to help build toilets in rural areas, conduct clean-up drives and spread awareness about sanitation, health and hygiene across India.

Despite the NDA government's focus on Uttar Pradesh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi making three trips to the state and showering infrastructure projects worth thousands of crores, a desolate and dilapidated school building in Faizabad has its own story to tell. Around 55 children and only one teacher spend their days in a building, which is falli...

Eighty-seven-year-old Rekha Devi, a Swacch Bharat Mission activist who had to build a toilet at her home with mud and stones, would now get a concrete facility as authorities provided financial assistance to her today.

The government has been running awareness programmes and even giving funds to people in villages to build toilets. Now, a village in Haryana has gone a step ahead to persuade people to invest in building toilets