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Friday, November 7, 2025
TopicSanitation

Topic: Sanitation

93% rural households have access to toilets & 96.5% use them, says survey

PTI -
The survey was conducted between November 2018 and February 2019 under the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.

Use of public toilets costs slum dwellers 104 times what those with own toilets spend

Fatima Khan -
Study suggests the high user charges are undermining the benefits of the Modi government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

Bill Gates aims to save half a million lives by reinventing the toilet

Jason Gale -
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spent $200 million over seven years funding sanitation research.

Bangladeshis can teach Narendra Modi’s India a thing or two about using toilets

Pritha Chatterjee -
Bangladesh model is against subsidy driven construction of toilets, focusing instead on generating collective community demand.

No, Modi’s Swachh Bharat is not like earlier sanitation measures, it’s much better

Yugal Joshi -
ThePrint’s article on Modi’s Swachh Bharat campaign is condescending in title and content

In mad race for targets, Modi’s Swachh Bharat could fumble the same way UPA plans did

Pritha Chatterjee -
Setting ambitious deadlines for toilet construction takes the focus away from providing long-term solutions to rural sanitation.

Sanitation as government programme or social change: What works better?

Nipun Vinayak -
Outcomes of a government programme are limited to target achievements. Once a village is declared ODF, attention towards it is likely to reduce. This creates a risk of slipping back into old habits.

Hindus are less likely to use a toilet than Muslims in India

Michael Geruso -
Data reveals 25% of Hindus who own toilets don't use them, only 10% of Muslims do the same.

Data shows India’s last red state Tripura is low on development, but high on social indices

Alison Saldanha -
Tripura fares well on multiple social and health indicators, but has the highest unemployment percentage in India.

Drain deaths: Cheap labour, distrust of machines keep manual scavenging alive

Sabah Gurmat -
ThePrint takes stock of laws prohibiting this dehumanising practice and finds out why they are not being enforced despite disturbing statistics. Sabah K & Vandana Menon
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Opinion

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Anirudh Kanisetti -
Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Zohran Mamdani is an authentic representation of modern India

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Nehru is suddenly back in the news. This time, the BJP could not criticise him

Economy

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Banudas Athreya -
Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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