New Delhi: A fight over using a public toilet first has landed two youngsters in jail for five years with a Delhi court holding them guilty of trying to kill their neighbour. Besides sentencing city residents Shekhar Pandey and Chottu to five years in jail, Additional Sessions Judge Ramesh Kumar also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on each of them for making an attempt on their neighbour Gorakh Saroj's...
05:12 PM, May 01, 2012
Rome: Governments are failing to fund projects to improve access to toilets and other sanitation services in poor countries because the subject remains "taboo", a director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Monday. "Who wants to talk about shit?" asked Frank Rijsberman, Director of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at the $ 34 billion charitable foundation, during an interview with Reuters on Monday. "It's the last big taboo...
08:49 AM, May 01, 2012
Ranchi: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said about Rs 1,200 crore could be alloted to include toilet system in a revamped MGNREGA. "I am going to announce in Parliament on large scale expansion in the work schedule of MGNREGA by May 8. (Planning Commission member) Mihir Shah-headed expert committee recommendations are accepted (in this regard)," Ramesh said at a press conference. "One of the important additions is...
12:36 AM, May 01, 2012
Patna: Nearly 56 per cent of families in Bihar have a mobile or landline connection, but about 77 per cent of the population lack toilets, says a census report, highlighting the paradoxes in the state which has taken big leaps in development but also lagged behind in key areas. "Till 2001, only 2.2 per cent families were using any kind of telecom facility in Bihar, now over half of its...
02:42 PM, Apr 20, 2012
CHENNAI: If the Integral Coach Factory has its algorithm right, there will very soon be no smelly toilets on trains. This innovation should make train travel a more pleasant affair. But the absence of smell is only the by-product. The new bio toilets developed by Railways design engineers will do away with manual scavenging on trains and add to the life span of the tracks. The new toilet will have...
08:55 AM, Apr 12, 2012
London: British scientists claim they are developing a unique device which can turn used toilet waste into drinking water. A team at Manchester University, led by Sarah Haigh, says the innovation -- which has been funded by billionaire Bill Gates -- could transform the lives of millions of people in the third world. In fact, the scientists plan to have a prototype ready to demonstrate by 2013, the 'Daily Mail'...
05:40 PM, Apr 09, 2012
London: A new invention, being funded by billionaire Bill Gates, aims to turn used toilet water into drinking water, a British nanotechnology expert says. According to Manchester University's Sarah Haigh, the invention could make waste water from toilets safe to drink, the Daily Mail reported. She believes a new range of materials could extract energy from human waste. The innovation could transform the lives of millions of people in the...
12:50 PM, Apr 07, 2012
New Delhi: Thirty seven percent of toilets in the capital's government schools are "very dirty" and in "subhuman" condition, a survey done by the NGO CRY has revealed. The study by Child Rights and You (CRY) on Thursday said 318 toilets were scrutinised in 44 schools across the city and the situation was the worst in schools in the northwest, northeast and outer districts of Delhi. Interestingly, the survey revealed...
12:00 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly half of the country's population don't have a bathroom at home and defecate in open places, but more people own a mobile phone. According to the Census 2011 data on houses, household amenities and assets released on Tuesday, only 46.9 per cent of the India's 24.66 crore households have the latrine facility while 49.8 per cent go for open defecation and 3.2 per cent people use public...
06:43 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Nagpur: Protesting against lack of public toilets for women in Nagpur, a group of activists encircled a men's public toilet near Railway Station to press for their demand to construct public toilets for women. Led by city lawyer Smita Singalkar, the women activists also carried banners demanding women's toilets at prominent places in the city. Singalkar in a release said today that there were only 69 public toilets for women...
01:39 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Pune: The 'Occupy Men's Toilet' campaign started by women in China to protest against the lack of sanitation facilities for them is beginning to grip the imagination of women in the city. Activists, working women and college students are now saying that if the 78 newly elected women representatives in the civic house do nothing on the issue, they will launch a similar drive in the city. The PMC has...
09:48 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Mumbai: Central Railways' grand vision to have corporates, builders and private companies adopt railway stations and build toilet blocks seems to have gone down the drain due to lack of interest displayed by potential developers. More than four months ago, senior officials of the network and General Manager Subodh Jain had proposed construction of '5-star' toilets. They had also identified stations like Dadar, Thane, Kalyan, Vikhroli, Kurla and CST for...
02:33 PM, Mar 01, 2012
London: It may look to be coming straight from some science fiction but high-tech toilets that can analyse your excrement, 3D contact lenses and doors that open just as you look at them would become a reality in future. According to top futurologist Frank Shaw from Britain's Centre for Future Studies, these things could all materialise within 15 years, the Sun reported Thursday. Shaw has revealed a list of changes...
08:53 AM, Feb 24, 2012
Jairam Ramesh on Friday expressed concern that the government's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) is being seen as a 'token sanitation campaign' and rued that women were demanding mobile phones but not toilets. ...
04:07 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala will have 450 functional e-toilets by the end of this fiscal, becoming the first state in India with Connected Toilet Infrastructure which would be on a par with health and hygiene standards of developed countries. An e-toilet has an automated door opening, power flushing, automatic closet washing and sterilisation and automatic platform-cleaning mechanism -- all backed by SMS alerts to inform a control room about the status of...
12:48 PM, Jan 20, 2012
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