Swacch Bharat

Gonda: Mountains of garbage and despair in India's dirtiest city

Gonda, in Uttar Pradesh, is officially India's filthiest city after coming last in a government survey of more than 400 urban zones.

Narendra Modi seeks support of celebrities across fields to promote 'Clean India'', calls it noble service

Narendra Modi has written to opinion makers across fields including industry, sports and cinema seeking their support for the 'Swachhata Hi Seva' movement, saying it is the most noble service.

Independence Day 2017: Yogi Adityanath refers Gorakhpur hospital tragedy as an 'eye-opener'

Calling every incident an eye-opener, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath sought to blame the deaths of over 60 children in Gorakhpur on encephalitis

Akshay Kumar's Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is an important film to make Bharat swacch

On the surface, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha might be a film about sanitation but the story also has prominent feminist underpinnings.

Toilet: Ek Prem Katha song 'Gori Tu Latth Maar' is a melancholic track about a happy festival

'Gori Tu Latth Maar' from Akshay Kumar starrer Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is a melancholic song picturised on a happy occasion

Swacch Bharat mission hits superstitious hurdle in Bihar: Gazipur village residents shun toilets to keep sons 'alive'

It may sound strange but this is the hard reality of Gazipur village in Nawada district of Bihar.

Remember Swachh Bharat Mission? UP BJP MP Priyanka Rawat doesn't, tosses plastic bottle into Saryu river

It seems that Priyanka Rawat, a BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh, forgot about BJP's Swacch Bharat mission

'Darwaza Band' campaign launched: Govt says two lakh villages in India open defecation-free, 64% toilets ready

Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar said two lakh villages across the country have become open defecation free so far; in 2014, there were 44 percent toilets in the country, and this number has gone up to 64 percent

Narendra Modi condemns killing of e-rickshaw driver, announces ex-gratia of Rs 1 lakh

Kumar was beaten to death on Sunday night allegedly by a dozen men after he objected to two of them urinating outside the GTB Nagar Metro Station.

Swachh Bharat two-and-a-half years on: Narendra Modi government's claims remain unverified

Although Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) has sent India on a toilet construction spree, 51.6 percent of households across the country did not use an improved sanitation facility – a system that separates human excreta from human contact–between January 2015 and December 2016.