Malnutrition, disease, spending on health are all linked to the need for better sanitation in our living conditions. As Swachh Bharat becomes a national priority, we...
It’s tough for a 65-year-old Mohanakumar to believe that his house on a 5-cent land in rural Thiruvananthapuram – now has a toilet. For years he...
India's appetite for consumer goods, and the constant pressure to upgrade quickly, means that it is looking at a mountain of e-waste. India is the 5th...
The NDTV Dettol Banega Swachh India campaign celebrated Rashtriya Swachhta Diwas on October 2. The campaign conducted a 12-hour Cleanathon, which was anchored by Campaign Ambassador...
14-year-old Agathian would often fall sick and not show up at the school for several weeks. When his friends checked on him at his home in...
The NDTV Dettol Banega Swachh India campaign celebrated Rashtriya Swachhta Diwas on 2nd October. The campaign conducted a 12 hour Cleanathon, which was anchored by campaign...
The NDTV Dettol Banega Swachh India campaign celebrated Rashtriya Swachhta Diwas on October 2. The campaign conducted a 12-hour Cleanathon, which was anchored by Campaign Ambassador...
Thousands of volunteers and mostly young Indians picked up the broom to join clean-up drives in hundreds of locations across India. Several Union ministers like Prakash...
Ravish Kumar talks to Dr Lokendra Singh, Director, Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior, about the usefulness of a particular bacteria in bio-toilets. This discovery...
In the Swachhta (cleanliness) Survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), Jharkhand was cited as the worst state in the country as far as...
"We've been on the cleanliness job for the past couple of years", says Laxmikant Parsekar, Goa Chief Minister, adding that the state has a proper system...
The area surrounding the Golden Temple in Amritsar is strewn with disposed garbage and needs urgent attention. It is one of the 10 iconic locations that...
Varanasi is regarded as one of the holiest cities of India. People set their dead kin to the pyres along the Manikarnika Ghat, one of Varanasi's...
Joining the 12-hour-long Cleanathon, Actor Gul Panag said that it would help the cause of cleanliness if we take ownership of public property and cleaned them...