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‘Nightmare Scenario’: Tulsa business owners speak out as ‘serial defecator’ in thong and mask keeps returning at 4 a.m.- Scientists just reviewed more than 400 cat studies and found that outdoor-roaming pets had three to five times the odds of carrying germs that can infect people, turning a common habit into a quiet public health risk
- ‘Kissing Bug’ spreads in US: What is deadly Chagas disease, symptoms, risks, prevention tips and more
- Developing countries unfairly blamed? Vancouver, one of the world's most beautiful cities known for its natural beauty, has a human waste problem on its sidewalksVancouver’s human waste crisis is getting so bad that businesses are hiring “poop fairies” to clean sidewalks. The city’s feces removal pro...19 May, 2025, 07.16 PM IST
- ON CAM: Man and woman get into massive fight in Noida apartment lift over pet dogA recent pet-related dispute in a Noida society took a violent turn, involving a man and a woman carrying her pet in an elevator. The heate...31 Oct, 2023, 11.34 AM IST
- Another pee-gate: Man urinates, defecates on floor of Air India flight mid-airA man has been detained for defecating, urinating and spitting in row 9 of an Air India Mumbai-Delhi flight AIC 866 on June 24. The passeng...27 Jun, 2023, 01.34 PM IST
- Third wave has already begun in Bihar, says CM Nitish Kumar“Doctors worked tirelessly risking their lives and treated both Covid and non-Covid patients when the first and second waves of Covid hit t...29 Dec, 2021, 02.48 PM IST
- View: Access to toilets at the core of a sanitation revolution in IndiaThe world beyond India is still chasing the goal of providing another 67 crore open defecators with toilets. About 800 children under-5 die...22 Nov, 2021, 11.15 PM IST
- View: Swachh Bharat nuances and soft coercion may be needed for Covid curbsOne part of the government’s five-fold strategy in Covid management, Covid-appropriate behaviour, has faced the toughest challenge so far. ...28 Aug, 2021, 07.16 AM IST
- Economic Survey 2021 marks the importance of investing and strengthening the public health system“Healthcare policy must not become beholden to “saliency bias”, where policy overweights a recent phenomenon,” believes the Chief Economic ...29 Jan, 2021, 03.37 PM IST
- Experts question government's claim of country becoming ODF-freeAccording to the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, the country has achieved the dream of an open defection-free India, except in 52 urban...03 Oct, 2019, 01.21 PM IST
- AgustaWestland: Christian Michel claims in court CBI asked him to implicate certain personsChristian Michel made the allegations through his lawyer before the court while opposing Tihar Jail authorities' move to shift him to a hig...05 Mar, 2019, 07.45 PM IST
- Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: How Indore took on dirt - and wonArmed with nothing but a tin box with some loose change, young volunteers would make a noise as a warning to those relieving themselves in ...04 Jun, 2017, 11.18 AM IST
- Municipal Corporation of Gurugram starts pre-rain cleaningGurgaon MLA Umesh Agarwal recently met officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and discussed plans to strengthen storm...31 May, 2017, 12.11 AM IST
- Open defecation, booze-free Assam village aims to go cashlessRangchapara was declared the cleanest village in Assam for 2016-17 by the public health engineering department and was rewarded with a sum ...26 Feb, 2017, 01.01 PM IST
- Would mindlessly building toilets lead to an environmental harakiri?Over four lakh individual household toilets have been constructed in urban India since SBM was launched.30 Jun, 2016, 11.01 PM IST
- Just 54% of 2015 toilets target met in urban areasBuilding both individual and community toilet seats are key ingredients to achieve complete sanitation in urban areas, particularly to end ...02 May, 2016, 11.53 AM IST
- A Swachh success, hamlets embracing home toilet habitThere is a long way to go to meet the goal of complete sanitation by October 2019 as 52% of people in rural areas and 7.5% in urban areas s...14 Apr, 2016, 12.35 PM IST
- India has made 'moderate' progress in reducing open defecation rates: UNIn India's case, there has been a reduction by 31 per cent in open defecation, a progress termed as "moderate" by the report.01 Jul, 2015, 09.29 AM IST
- Poor sanitation cost India $54 bnInadequate sanitation cost India almost $54 billion or 6.4% of the country’s GDP in 2006.21 Dec, 2010, 09.22 AM IST
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