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9 years agoStarbucks To Go Big On World Environment Day In India, Will Switch To Compostable & Recyclable Packaging
In a bid to cut down plastic waste, all the 138 stores of TATA Starbucks Pvt Ltd across India will switch to eco-friendly cutlery, stirrers, cups,...
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9 years ago
Defying Gender Problems And Open Defecation, Sunita Devi From Jharkhand Is Training Women To Build Toilets
90 per cent of the women in Udaypura, a village in Jharkhand used to defecate in the open before 2018. Today, every woman in the village...
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9 years ago
26-Year-Old Man In Bareilly Is Breaking The Period Taboo With A Sanitary Napkin Bank
26-year-old Chitransh Saxena from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, started a PadBank in June 2018. 148 girls in the city are getting free sanitary pads every month from...
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9 years ago
How A Visit To Mumbai’s Landfill Inspired A 23-Year-Old To Embark On A Zero Waste Journey
From practising in-house composting, ditching plastic items to switching to a menstrual cup, here’s how T. Lalita from Mumbai is changing her lifestyle to manage waste...
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9 years ago
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Inspires Mumbai Society To Generate Revenue From Waste
A housing society in Goregaon, Mumbai has converted close to 3.5 tonnes of waste in to 400 kilos of manure within a period of one year....
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9 years ago
ODF Mumbai, A Reality Check: Overused, Unclean And Lesser Number Of Toilets For Women Are Just Some Of Mumbai’s Sanitation Woes
Though Mumbai have met all the parameters to be called an open defecation free city, it needs to solve problems like lack of water connection, overuse...
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9 years ago
ODF Mumbai, A Reality Check: Five Public Toilets In Mumbai’s Crowded Places That Set A Swachh Example
From having disable-friendly toilet seats, installing sanitary napkin vending machines to providing international hygiene standards for free, here’s how public toilets in crowded Mumbai are faring
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9 years ago
ODF Mumbai, A Reality Check: Understanding The Issue Of Open Defecation And Garbage On Mumbai’s Railway Tracks
With commuters littering railway tracks and platforms, defecation on railway tracks and poorly maintained toilets on platforms, can Mumbai have a Swachh rail experience in future?
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9 years ago
ODF Mumbai, A Reality Check: Tackling Problems Of Space, Population And Behavior Change, Here’s How The City Is Ensuring Toilet For All
18 months after achieving the Open Defecation Free status, here’s how Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is encouraging people to use public toilets
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9 years ago
3 Lakh Volunteers Collect 9,000 Tonnes Of Waste From Over 900 Hospitals In A Four Hour Clean-Up Drive Across India
Three lakh volunteers from Sant Nirankari Charitable Foundation (SNCF), participated in the cleanliness drive conducted in more than 900 hospitals across India including the J J...
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9 years ago
Girls To Get Sanitary Pads In Over 100 Government Schools Of Vadodara
104 government-run schools in Vadodara, Gujarat will get sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators for free to promote menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls
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9 years ago
In A First For Hyderabad, City Launches Three Pink Toilets With Menstrual Hygiene Management Facilities
Hyderabad has launched three pink toilets with sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators to give women access to menstrual hygiene facilities
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9 years ago
Plastic Bottles To Plant Pots, Newspapers To Carry Bags: School Students In Chennai ‘Thrash The Trash’
Agal foundation in Chennai is helping school students aged between 9 and 11 to reuse, reduce and recycle waste or discarded items through its ‘Thrash the...
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9 years ago
Indore Reuses Plastic Bottles To Create A Vertical Garden
In a bid to tackle plastic waste and air pollution, the Indore Municipal Corporation replaces plant pots with plastic bottles to develop a vertical garden at...
What Are The Causes For High Prevalence of Malnutrition Among Certain Tribal Communities In Rajasthan?
Gujarat’s Siddi Tribe – A Community Of Forgotten People: A Look At The Health Challenges Faced By Them
Dettol Announces Second Edition of India’s Biggest Hygiene Olympiad With An Aim To Reach Over 30 Million Children
Dettol Diarrhoea Net Zero Initiative: A Multi Facet Approach for Transformative Change
This Padma Awardee Is Ensuring ‘Health For All’ With Free Healthcare Services In Rural Parts Of Sundarbans
70-year-old Dr Arunoday Mondal, a Padma awardee has been providing healthcare services for free to rural Sundarbans for over two...
How Can India Improve Neonatal And Maternal Health? Padma Bhushan, Dr Neelam Kler Explains
Padma awardee Dr. Neelam Kler highlighted the importance of having a holistic healthcare approach to reduce neonatal and maternal mortality...
“Hygiene Is The First Step Of Preventive Healthcare,” Says Padma Shri Prof. (Dr) Indira Chakravarty
Dr Indira Chakravarty, who is a Public Health Specialist, said that the Banega Swasth India campaign has helped people understand...
Decoding Gut Health With Padma Awardee Dr Nageshwar Reddy
Currently working as the Chairman of the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology and AIG Hospitals in Hyderabad, Padma awardee Dr Nageshwar...
“Must Treat Each Cancer Patient Irrespective Of Socio-Economic Status,” Says Padma Shri Dr Ravi Kannan
Dr. Ravi Kannan runs the Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Silchar, Assam, where he treats Cancer patients free...
