Public awareness, strict administration ensure cleanest city tag for IndoreAs Indore bagged Swachh Survekshan award fifth time in the row for being the cleanest city in the country, the officials and public represe...
21 Nov, 2021, 12.59 PM IST
Coronavirus outbreak: Divided by face masks, united by handwashingThe one thing virus experts are united on is the importance of clean hands. There might be debates about what kind of face mask to use, or ...
07 Mar, 2020, 07.43 AM IST
Urban India needs to break with the status quo for a sustainable futureFrom Delhi’s air pollution to Mumbai’s footbridge stampede, urban India needs to break with the status quo for a sustainable future.
17 Dec, 2017, 06.17 AM IST
This simple innovation can prevent 1.5 million child deaths every year & has UNICEF excitedThree industrial designers have come up with an ingenious way to tackle one of the reasons for child deaths every year. What is more - it i...
01 Dec, 2017, 03.11 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi's 'Mann ki Baat': Full text"Festivals are of course symbols of faith and belief; in the New India, we should transform them into symbols of cleanliness as well."
27 Aug, 2017, 12.45 PM IST
Pick up your dog poo today so that it does not become national policy tomorrowA district in the UK now threatens to fine anyone caught walking a dog without a plastic bag to pick up.
05 Nov, 2016, 08.24 AM IST
Dip in littering, spitting cases in Central Railway suburbs this fiscalWhile first four months of this fiscal, i.e from April 2015 to July 2015, total 637 cases were registered under the same act and fetched th...
05 Dec, 2015, 01.46 PM IST
Maharashtra plans to make tobacco-chewers, spitters sweep government offices for a dayHealth minister Dr Deepak Sawant said the existing civic bye-law on spitting or chewing and sale of tobacco products should be amended or r...
07 Mar, 2015, 10.14 AM IST
India is dirty because Indians are cleanThere's been an explanation passed down generations to explain why we're so filthy: India is so dirty because Indians are so clean.
13 Feb, 2015, 12.03 PM IST
2014: A politically eventful year for IndiaThe states of Jharkahand, Maharashtra and Haryana witnessed a regime change and Jammu and Kashmir saw a hung Parliament in the recent elect...
31 Dec, 2014, 12.23 PM IST
Railway Budget 2014 practical and execution-oriented: Sumit Mazumder, President Designate CIICII President Ajay S Shriram, on the other hand, felt that the Railway Budget presented a broad vision on what needs to be done in this cri...
08 Jul, 2014, 10.33 PM IST
From Bastar to Bodhgaya, states promoting offbeat destinations to get higher share of touristsO&M, which created the ‘Incredible India’ campaign for the ministry of tourism in 2002, also has to be credited with making another state p...
28 Apr, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
Dosa Plaza: How Prem Ganapathy built Rs 30 crore empire with seed capital of just Rs 1000A class X passout with no particular skill set, I was lured to Mumbai, only to be robbed. It was an inauspicious start to my entrepreneuria...
21 Feb, 2012, 02.25 PM IST
Dosa Plaza: How Prem Ganapathy built Rs 30 crore empire with seed capital of just Rs 1000A class X passout with no particular skill set, I was lured to Mumbai, only to be robbed. It was an inauspicious start to my entrepreneuria...
20 Feb, 2012, 02.00 PM IST
- Split if you dare
MCGM plans to introduce bye-laws which would attract a fine of Rs 500 if a citizen is caught spitting or bathing or littering a public plac...
19 Aug, 2006, 12.18 AM IST