Swachch Bharat

Satyagraha to Swachhagraha in Champaran: 'Bihar made Gandhi ji a Mahatma, showed country the path', says Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the Bihar government's efforts towards making the state open defecation-free and vowed to fulfil the sanitation dream of Mahatma Gandhi.

Narendra Modi in Bihar: PM arrives in Patna, will address 20,000 Swachh Bharat volunteers in East Champaran district

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Bihar on Tuesday to address 20,000 'Swachh Bharat' volunteers in East Champaran district's Motihari town.

Full text of Narendra Modi's speech at Rising India Summit: PM stresses on development of eastern India, public participation in schemes

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on a wide range of issues while addressing News18's Rising India Summit in New Delhi. Right from discussing the need to bring development to the eastern region of the country to taking electricity and welfare schemes to the unreachable, Modi touched on several key issues plaguing India

Narendra Modi, NDA must answer P Chidambaram's criticism; riding solely on Hindutva spells trouble

If the Narendra Modi-led NDA's 'ideology' is just Hindutva with random acts on economics and foreign policy then we are in deeper trouble than we think

Bihar: Aurangabad district magistrate asks men to 'sell their wives' if they can't build toilets

Aurangabad district magistrate Kanwal Tanuj put his foot in his mouth by suggesting that men who cannot afford to build toilets should sell their wives.

Killed over Swachch Bharat? Delhi Police arrests DU student, juvenile aide for lynching e-rickshaw driver

Delhi Police has arrested a Delhi University student and detained his juvenile accomplice for lynching an e-rickshaw driver after he objected to them urinating at GTB Metro Station in north Delhi.

Narendra Modi's ideas are grand break from the past, but when will we see results?

Make in India, bullet train, Smart Cities, Swachch Bharat, surgical strike, demonetisation. All of these and other initiatives of Modi share a pattern. They represent a grand break from the past. They promise to rip away the old and decayed and replace it with something new and better.

PM Modi sets up eight groups of secretaries for focussed attention

During the 70-minute interaction, the prime minister had said that the "vast expertise" of the secretaries in various domains of the governance should now be leveraged to bring about "breakthroughs, rather than incremental change".

Swachch Bharat in limbo: Religious leaders come together to revive PM's pet scheme

India needs toilets that do not use water, are designed with open roofs and are standardised so that they are cheaper

TCS to construct 860 toilets for girls in schools by 2015-end

Under the first phase, it will be building toilets in 860 schools spread across five districts of Andhra Pradesh, eight of Telangana and two of Bihar, the company said in a statement.