Reckitt backs efforts to address health challenges faced by sanitation workersReckitt is driving a national movement to enhance India's sanitation economy by fostering sanitation entrepreneurs and modernizing school s...
19 Feb, 2026, 01.46 PM IST
Amid US tariff heat, PM Modi bats for AatmanirbhartaPrime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized the importance of following the principles of Lord Krishna and Mahatma Gandhi to strengthen India a...
18 Aug, 2025, 01.02 AM IST
Bihar govt to constitute commission for socio-economic upliftment of sanitation workersBihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced the formation of the 'Safai Karmachari Commission' to uplift sanitation workers socio-economica...
27 Jul, 2025, 09.24 AM IST
Gurgaon garbage crisis: How a crackdown on Bengali migrants led to Millennium City being called 'a pig house'Gurugram faces a sanitation crisis as sanitation workers, predominantly Bengali-speaking migrants, flee due to police actions, disrupting w...
23 Jul, 2025, 01.11 PM IST
Manual scavenging: HC pulls up Guj govt over non-payment of compensation to 16 dead workers' kinThe Gujarat High Court rebuked the state government for delayed compensation to 16 families of deceased sanitation workers involved in manu...
04 Jan, 2024, 12.00 AM IST
Informal sanitation workers to get govt health insurance cover under PM-JAYThe move comes after recent ground visits revealed how casual workers, specifically sanitation workers, had not tapped into the government ...
22 Sep, 2022, 11.37 PM IST
Private players welcome to help bring technology to sanitation sector, says NITI Aayog CEO"Government acknowledges the private sector as a key stakeholder in this sector. Private sector is brimming with entrepreneurial activities...
03 Oct, 2020, 11.20 PM IST
Namrup Replacement Thermal Power Plant with production capacity of 100 MW will be commissioned by end of next monthAssam Power Generation Corporation Limited (APGCL) informed this to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal during his visit to the project site ...
30 Apr, 2020, 09.04 PM IST
Wheat harvesting in Punjab, Haryana next weekPunjab announced relaxation of tough lockdown norms for villagers amid growing anxiety in the predominantly agricultural state over the unc...
13 Apr, 2020, 03.56 PM IST
Delhi government asks all principal secretaries and secretaries to furnish details of contractual employeesThe Labour department has written to the head of departments providing performa for furnishing information.
04 Aug, 2018, 12.04 PM IST
Mystery cross marks in red outside Gujarat homesThe crosses came three days after posters surfaced in the locality with the message, “Save Paldi from becoming a Juhapura”, a reefrence to ...
14 Nov, 2017, 11.13 AM IST
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal urges LG Najeeb Jung to direct DDA to clear dues to MCDs"Often the municipal corporations delay paying monthly salaries to Safai Karmcharis (sanitation workers) which leads to threats of strikes ...
25 Oct, 2015, 02.31 PM IST
Garbage mess: Delhi stinks as AAP government & Centre spar over MCD fundsHC today issued a notice to the Centre, Delhi government and East MCD on pleas seeking removal of garbage and payment of salaries to the ci...
12 Jun, 2015, 01.30 PM IST
L N Mithila University to introduce sanitation in curriculumConsidering importance of sanitation, Bihar's L N Mithila University has said it would include the subject in its curriculum.
27 May, 2015, 03.30 PM IST
As sanitation workers threaten strike, parties play blame gameThe workers have threatened to go on strike from March 31 if their demands for salary and confirmed jobs are not fulfilled.
25 Mar, 2015, 11.31 AM IST
Fifty more bodies found in the Ganga riverThe sanitation workers have refused to take out the bodies from the river as they are in a very bad shape, an officer said.
14 Jan, 2015, 12.59 PM IST
- No buses, no power: Telangana shuts down for eleventh day
The indefinite strike called by the Telangana Joint Action Committee continued to affect the normal life as it entered its 11th day on Frid...
24 Sep, 2011, 03.48 AM IST