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
Budget 2017-18: Pro-poor, pro-rural, pro-reform; first after DeMo, first to feature RailwaysBudget 2017-18 brought in significant fiscal changes. It focused on tax reforms, rural development and infrastructure growth. The budget ai...
17 Dec, 2025, 02.10 PM IST
Delhi launches massive school inspection push till February 2026: What every parent and student must know about itDelhi government is launching a major inspection drive in its schools. This initiative will continue until February 2026. Officials will vi...
17 Nov, 2025, 06.30 PM IST
UP CM Yogi Adityanath announces compensation of Rs 35-40 lakh in case of sanitation worker's deathUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced significant reforms for sanitation and contractual workers. Compensation of Rs 35-40...
08 Oct, 2025, 08.00 AM IST
Don't sit on Swachh Bharat Mission's successIndia has made substantial progress in providing sanitation for people in recent years. Now is the time to double down on those efforts wit...
17 Aug, 2023, 11.19 PM IST
Piyush Goyal to receive University of Pennsylvania's top energy policy prizeThe Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design will award its fourth annual Carnot Prize to Piyus...
16 Oct, 2018, 11.37 AM IST
Bhagwat Gita, yoga should be part of education system: Manohar Lal KhattarTo improve the education system and provide literacy to all, the state government has constructed various schools and colleges, Khattar said
02 Apr, 2017, 11.29 PM IST
MCD exploiting sanitation workers: Manish SisodiaSisodia also said as per the recommendation of the 14th Finance Commission, "the civic bodies should get about Rs 3,552 crore from the Cent...
08 Jan, 2017, 07.31 PM IST
CBSE begins review of CCE, optional Class X board exam"A majority say that a dual system for the Class X exams is confusing. The exams are linked with CCE, and there again most stakeholders fee...
05 Oct, 2016, 12.28 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sanitation campaign in Gujarat gets CAG lashesTSC was launched by the Union Ministry of Rural Development in 1999 for sustainable reforms in the rural sector through a time bound campai...
12 Nov, 2014, 06.07 AM IST
Terrorism in India can be defeated by toilets, and not just gunsThe children of 1981 had become the youth of 1991, and the cry of insurrection was raging through mosque and lane in Srinagar.
12 Oct, 2014, 12.44 PM IST
Modi's Independence-Day speech lacks substance: Kapil SibalThe former Law Minister termed Modi's address as "yet another election speech" and said the Prime Minister's words must match the deeds.
16 Aug, 2014, 10.19 PM IST
President's speech: 6 action points of Modi government that will make the common man happyBetter education, sanitation and lower inflation are some of the expectations that people of the country have from the new government.
09 Jun, 2014, 06.22 PM IST
India: From Poverty to EmpowermentMGI has created the Empowerment Line, a new measure of the consumption required for an average Indian to fulfil eight basic needs: food, en...
20 Feb, 2014, 07.03 AM IST
- Toilet should be a constitutional right for every woman: Jairam Ramesh
"Toilet is a fundamental right for every woman....for her privacy, her dignity...every school must have a toilet, every Anganwadi must have...
25 Jun, 2012, 06.35 PM IST
- NAC recommends food security net for 75% population
The National Advisory Council on Saturday recommended to the government to grant differential legal entitlement of foodgrains to nearly 800...
23 Oct, 2010, 07.46 PM IST
- I am a politician by accident: PM
"I am a politician by accident. I didn't choose politics as a career," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said.
12 Oct, 2007, 12.46 PM IST