Toilets
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The story of how and when toilets were introduced in Indian Railways
India | February 05, 2025 15:45 ISTToday, 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.
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Karnataka sees another incident of student cleaning school toilets in Kolar district
Karnataka | February 02, 2024 20:11 ISTKarnataka 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.
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FACT CHECK: Misleading video links toilets construction to Ayodhya's Ram Mandir | Know the truth
Fact Check | January 07, 2024 23:55 ISTThe 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.
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Bihar: After garbage, toilet construction scam surfaces in Kaimur, payments made to over 270 fake ac
Bihar | September 07, 2023 19:43 ISTAccording to reports, the payments were allegedly made to 273 fake beneficiaries who were not involved in the construction process of the toilets.
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If parents can buy children cricket kit, they can buy them bottled water too: Court in PIL response
India | July 21, 2022 16:12 ISTA 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.
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Delhi Metro makes provision of separate toilet for transgenders at stations
India | August 29, 2021 12:23 ISTCurrently, there are 347 such separate dedicated toilets (in addition to the regular toilets for other passengers) at metro stations spread across the network.
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This public toilet in Tokyo has transparent walls that glow in vibrant colors
World | August 29, 2020 12:08 ISTThe 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.
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Uttar Pradesh: Teacher sends student to get her slippers repaired; terminated
India | December 03, 2019 13:25 ISTA 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.
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Uttar Pradesh to get first toilet for transgenders
India | August 25, 2019 16:57 ISTThe 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.
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Over lakh in Bihar await reimbursement for building toilets
India | July 13, 2019 11:37 ISTPoverty-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.
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90% Indians have toilet facility at their homes now: PM Modi
Politics | September 12, 2018 23:58 IST“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.
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Public toilets for transgenders to be built in Nagpur
India | February 17, 2018 15:10 ISTThe 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.
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Tamil Nadu: Girl students asked to clean toilets, Education Dept to decide on action
India | November 28, 2017 23:42 ISTThe 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
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Lack of toilets forces people in this village to pay tax for open defecation
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Modi government to build toilets in 1 L madrassas, gives '3T' mantra
India | March 18, 2017 16:14 ISTIn 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
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Toilets built at a cost of Rs 1.90 lakh goes missing, Petition seeks t
India | December 15, 2015 8:14 ISTCoimbatore: 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
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Sanitation programmes have failed to achieve targets: CAG
India | December 09, 2015 9:44 ISTNew 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
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Toilets must for contesting urban civic polls in Maharashtra
Politics | December 01, 2015 19:32 ISTMumbai: 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
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Rameswaram set to become first œdischarge-free railway station
India | October 12, 2015 14:59 ISTNew 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
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Delhi government to install bio-digester toilets
India | July 18, 2015 8:51 ISTNew 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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