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The great satvic scam: Purity, power and the politics of vegetarian virtueModern satvikism within Hinduism risks fracturing the tradition by elevating purity and order as absolutes. While it prizes cleanliness, it...
Bihar’s Musahars struggle for dignity and survivalThe Musahar community, Bihar's most marginalized Dalit group, faces extreme poverty, caste stigma, and lack of basic amenities like housing...
Bihar cabinet approves constitution of commission for upliftment of sanitation workersThe Nitish Kumar government has approved the formation of the Bihar State Safai Karmachari Commission. This aims to uplift sanitation worke...
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...
3 years extension for National Commission for Safai Karamchari CommissionThe Union cabinet has approved extending the tenure of the National Commission for Safai Karamchari (NCSK) for three more years with an est...
Budget 2025 full speech: Read FM Nirmala Sitharaman's Union Budget address hereBudget 2025 Download full speech: The 2025-26 Budget introduces measures to accelerate growth, ensure inclusive development, and boost priv...
Century Mill land dispute: Supreme Court sets aside 2022 Bombay HC verdict against BMCThe Supreme Court overturns a Bombay High Court decision, ruling the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is not required to transfer f...
HUA ministry focussed on metro expansion, safety, affordable housing in 2024The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry in 2024 focused on metro rail expansion, 84,000 CCTV installations, 700 km of cycle tracks, an...
Bindeshwar Pathak: 'Toilet Man of India' who founded Sulabh and pioneered public sanitationBindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh, an organisation synonymous with public toilets and fighting open defecation in India, passed away...
Daughter of Indian sanitation worker praises country for uplifting Dalit, OBCs at UNHRCSpeaking exclusively to ANI at the UN, Rohini Ghavari said: "I have got a golden chance to be at the UN. For the past two years, I am doing...
Maharashtra govt mulls affordable housing for garbage, sanitation workersEarlier this week, town planning authority City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) also announced a special housing scheme with...
Delhi Assembly passes resolution urging Centre to give Bharat Ratna to 'Bharatiya' doctorOpposition BJP supported the resolution but demanded that other 'corona (Covid) warriors' such as sanitation workers, teachers and policeme...
Budget 2020 Highlights: This is what you got from Sitharaman's Bahi KhataThe FM, Nirmala Sitharaman, on Saturday unveiled the budget for fiscal 2020-21, vowing to boost income of Indians & their purchasing power,...
'Govt working on comprehensive policy for elderly citizens'Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot noted that the government has brought Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and S...
India's first 'toilet college' trains 3,200 sanitation workersThe college, set up in August 2018, is run by British consumer goods major Reckitt Benckiser.
India's biggest urban makeover in Mumbai means free homes for 20,000The area, known as Bhendi Bazaar, will rehouse 20,000 people crammed into 250 crumbing buildings in a Muslim enclave in south central Mumba...
PM Modi, Arvind Kejriwal can't get away by making empty promises: Rahul Gandhi to sanitation workersThe Congress leader accused the Centre and Delhi government of passing the buck over the sanitation crisis in Capital, saying both were not...
Narendra Modi: One hundred days of latitudeThe good news is that the title of this column is not 'One hundred days of lassitude'. We have a government that appears to be working, war...
32 newly elected under-35 MPs & what they intend to do for their constituenciesET Magazine profiles this youth brigade of winners to see how they got here and what they intend to do for their constituencies. Read on
Reluctance to cut the umbilical cord to nostalgia is withholding industrial growthTribals are woefully neglected and tutored by vested interests to reject corporate investment that could uplift them from squalor and depri...