THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A peaceful Sunday it should have been; but Mayor K Chandrika received the shock of her life early in the day when she saw how a mammoth march had reduced the main stretch at Palayam and the Chandrasekharan Nair stadium into a dump yard. Bottles, thousands of them, plastic glasses, covers, paper plates, left-over foodstuff, packets of snacks and what not, abandoned in the street and stadium after the...
11:30 AM, Apr 30, 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
New Delhi: It has been almost a decade since Railway passenger fares were increased and its finances are in the red. The Indian Railways is the country's 24*7 lifeline, registering 23 million passengers and up to 2.65 million tonnes of freight traffic per day. With the Railway finances going from bad to worse, a question often asked is what is the prime reason behind it. Why are the Railways sinking?...
11:51 AM, Mar 14, 2012
CNN-IBN is getting voices from across the country on what people want from the Railway Budget. ...
09:30 AM, Mar 13, 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
New Delhi: The Supreme Court would decide on Friday whether to impose an interim ban on the production and sale of controversial pesticide Endosulfan in the country, pending an elaborate hearing and its decision over a plea for it. A bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia on Wednesday directed the petitioner, CPIM's youth wing Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and other parties to the plea to file their...
12:57 PM, May 11, 2011
Zeeshan turns citizen journalist to tackle the problem of hygiene in his locality. ...
01:45 PM, Apr 30, 2011
Mumbai: A Congress member of parliament will Wednesday organise a hygiene awareness camp for pani-puri and bhel-puri sellers in north Mumbai. The camp, organised by Sanjay Nirupam comes in the wake of recent attacks on pani-puri and bhel-puri sellers of Mumbai and Thane after a vendor was caught urinating in a serving vessel. "The camp has been organised to lay down guidelines to ensure that highest standards of cleanliness and...
01:09 PM, Apr 27, 2011
Poor sanitation in India is costing annual losses of $54 billion. ...
09:58 AM, Dec 23, 2010
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government on Thursday renewed its demand for a country wide ban on the use of endosulphan pesticide and wanted the Centre to announce a rehabilitation package to a tune of Rs 100 crores to the persons suffering from the ill-effects of ensulphan in the state. Replying to a calling attention in the assembly to the problems faced by the people due to the usage of endosulphan in Kasargod...
09:33 AM, Dec 23, 2010
New Delhi: A lack of toilets and poor hygiene practices in India cost Asia's third largest economy almost $54 billion every year, the World Bank said on Monday. Premature deaths, treatment for the sick, wasted time and productivity, as well as lost tourism revenues, are the main reasons for the high economic losses, the bank said in a report. "For decades, we have been aware of the significant impacts of...
09:39 AM, Dec 21, 2010
Earlier, Delhi residents had constructed a boundary wall around an open nullah, but the MCD knocked it down. ...
11:43 AM, Aug 30, 2010
Doctors at Mumbai's KEM Hospital are scrubbing down hospital walls to set an example to inconsiderate visitors. ...
09:39 AM, Jul 28, 2010
The mouse was the main ingredient in her dish. ...
01:24 PM, Feb 04, 2009
A scheme is launched by authorities to promote hygiene in rural areas. ...
12:27 PM, Jul 06, 2008
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