Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) plans to procure 200 more eco-friendly bio-toilets to provide the facility on more trains in the next few months. The decision was taken after successful trial of 48 bio-toilets fitted to the 17 coaches being run on Hyderabad-Mumbai Hussain Sagar Express and Kacheguda-Bangalore Express.
Bio-toilets were developed jointly by Railway Research and Standard Organisation (RDSO) and Defence Research Development Establishment (DRDE) for use in Indian Railways and are currently under trial in many of the zonal railways.
SCR, which has its headquarters in Hyderabad, took a lead in the trial and provided the facility in two trains.
The conventional toilets in the trains, by allowing human waste to fall on the tracks, cause unhygienic conditions and corrosion to track and coach fittings endangering the safety. Passengers use toilets while trains are at platforms and the track get scattered with human excreta creating unpleasant situation for passengers on the platforms, said a statement from SCR on Friday....
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06:00 AM, May 18, 2013
Jammu: A team of Jammu and Kashmir ministers headed by Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand on Thursday visited the quake affected areas of Jammu region and took stock of relief and rehabilitation work. Chand, along with Minister for Rural Development, Ali Mohammad Sagar, and Minister of State for Health, Shabir Ahmad Khan, interacted with people and inquired about their problems and relief measures at Bhalessa, Gandoh, Changa, Kishtwar, Thatri and...
12:37 AM, May 17, 2013
An IAS aspirant committed suicide in Bangalore on Friday, upset over a "mix-up" in the Civil Services Examinations results list. ...
11:49 PM, May 14, 2013
The Supreme Court on Monday directed medical colleges to declare all pending Post Graduate results, which were stayed by the December 13, 2012, order. ...
11:42 PM, May 13, 2013
Nawaz Sharif was poised for a record third term as Pakistan's Prime Minister with his Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) party on Sunday taking an unassailable lead in parliamentary elections, which was welcomed by India with whom he pledged to restart the peace process. ...
11:40 PM, May 12, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra government on Tuesday set up an 11-member committee headed by Women and Child Welfare Minister Varsha Gaikwad to finalise the women's policy draft which was unveiled on March 8, 2013, celebrated as International Women's Day. The two-month period for seeking objections and suggestions for the draft policy ends tomorrow. The committee will meet on May 10, 2013 to discuss the inputs received and give a final shape to...
03:50 AM, May 08, 2013
In a recent article in Wisden India sports journalist Anjali Doshi has raised serious objections about the women presenters being chosen by IPL broadcaster Set Max saying that the choice of glamorous women over sports journalists not only trivialises cricket but also stereotypes those women who report on sport. ...
11:55 PM, May 07, 2013
CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose asks residents of Bangalore about their voting ambitions ahead of the state Assembly elections on May 5. ...
11:49 PM, May 03, 2013
After battling for life for more than six days following a brutal assault by fellow inmates inside Pakistan's Kot Lakhpat Jail, Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore hospital on Thursday. ...
11:26 PM, May 02, 2013
CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses the question with MoS HRD Shashi Tharoor and others. ...
11:39 PM, May 01, 2013
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday assured all possible help to victims of the earthquake in Doda and Kishtwar districts. "The government will extend all support to the quake victims of Doda and Kishtwar districts," Rural Development Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar said. Necessary instructions had been issued to concerned district administrations to assess the loss caused to various structures for providing necessary relief at the earliest, he said....
08:35 PM, May 01, 2013
Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was on Tuesday acquitted of all charges in a case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. ...
11:43 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan, who was briefly detained on Wednesday at a US airport, returned to India on Monday morning. Khan has accused External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid of hatching a "conspiracy" to defame him outside India. ...
11:54 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Delhi has witnessed a surge in crime against women this year with rape cases recording 158 per cent rise while molestation and eve-teasing incidents went up by 600 and over 700 per cent, respectively. According to statistics released by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Monday, the national capital reported 463 rape cases in 2013 till April 15 as against 179 during the same period in 2012. ...
11:21 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Admitting that the response of his force in the rape case of the five-year-old girl was "not as swift as desired", Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said "there was always a room for improvement". He, however, insisted that the Delhi Police has fulfilled all the promises it made after the December 16 gangrape case. ...
11:49 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Catch the day's top stories on India @ 9 with Sagarika Ghose. ...
11:24 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Protesters took to the street in the national capital on Saturday, demanding justice for the 5-year-old, who was brutally raped, assaulted, nearly killed and kept captive by a man in east Delhi. Angry crowds demonstrated outside police headquarters, despite the arrest of the arrest of the main accused, Manoj Kumar. ...
10:42 PM, Apr 20, 2013
In a grave reminder of December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape, a five-year-old was abducted and brutally raped in the capital and the police have detained one person in connection with the case. The detained man is reported to be the father of the main accused. ...
11:21 PM, Apr 19, 2013
The culture of political violence in Bengal is not even sparing holy grounds such as Presidency College (now University) which were till now protected from acts of violence and hooliganism. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 18, 2013
The latest from Jaipur, where public apathy was captured on CCTV which showed passerby leaving a woman and her infant bleeding to death after an accident. A 26-year-old woman and her 8-month-old daughter in Jaipur died waiting for help on a busy road after their bike was hit by a speeding truck. The traumatised father and the young son who survived, stood by crying for help, only to see several ...
11:59 PM, Apr 17, 2013
