Today, it’s hard to imagine a train journey without toilets. But did you know that Indian Railways did not have toilets in its early years? The introduction of toilets was a game-changing moment for passenger comfort.
Karnataka news: The previous incident included students being sent down toilet pits in Kolar at the Yelavalli Morarji Desai Residential School. The development had created a public outrage. The Education Department had suspended the headmistress.
The footage actually originates from the Swarved Mahamandir in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, where makeshift toilets were set up before its inauguration ceremony on December 18, 2023.
According to reports, the payments were allegedly made to 273 fake beneficiaries who were not involved in the construction process of the toilets.
A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice MS Karnik was hearing a public interest litigation lamenting the lack of basic facilities like drinking water and toilets at cricket grounds.
Currently, there are 347 such separate dedicated toilets (in addition to the regular toilets for other passengers) at metro stations spread across the network.
The walls of two newly installed public toilets in the Shibuya neighborhood in Tokyo are see-through before people enter, but turn opaque when the doors are closed and locked from the inside. The so-called transparent toilets, which opened this month, were designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for a project organized by The Nippon Foundation that redesigned a total of 17 public toilets in the neighborhood.
A teacher in Ayodhya's Khajurahat government primary school has been suspended and a 'Shiksha Mitra' (ad hoc) in the same school has been terminated for sending school children to get her slippers repaired.
The survey for the project will commence on August 29 which is also the National Sports Day. The Varanasi Sports Federation will take active interest in the project and extend possible cooperation.
Poverty-stricken Dinanath Rai and Surajdeo Mahto constructed toilets in their house last year at their own cost but are yet to get back the money they spent.
“The ‘Swachhata Hi Seva Movement’ commences on 15th September. This is a great way to pay tributes to Bapu. Come, be a part of this movement and strengthen the efforts to create a Swachh Bharat,” PM Modi said.
The move comes after representatives of the Sarthi Trust, which works for the community, met District Collector Sachin Kurve and demanded separate public toilets for transgenders.
The District Education Officer (DEO) in Tiruvallur district near here has completed his inquiry into the alleged incident of girl students of a government school being asked to wash toilets
In a bid to make country the open defecation free (ODF), the government plans to build toilets in one lakh madrassas across the country under 'Swachh Bharat' mission. Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs
Coimbatore: A resident of Kendayur near Mettupalayam in the district yesterday sought intervention of the administration to trace toilets said to have been constructed for the benefit of public in 2011.In a petition on behalf
New Delhi: Sanitation programmes launched by the government over the last few years have failed to achieve the desired targets, the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) of India said on Tuesday.A CAG report which was submitted
Mumbai: If you do not have a toilet at home, you will not be eligible to contest elections to urban local bodies in Maharashtra, the state government decided today.The move comes months after Haryana, also
New Delhi: Railway stations located near some of the prominent temples may soon become “discharge free”. The stations in and around famous temples like VaishnoDevi in Jammu, Dwarkadish temple in Gujarat and Arulmigu Ramanatha Swami
New Delhi: The Delhi government will install bio-digester toilets on a pilot basis which will solve the problem of sewage system and help revive the water bodies.Vice-chairman of Delhi Dialogue Commission (DDC) Ashish Khetan said:
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