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Friday, December 12, 2025
TopicSewage workers

Topic: Sewage workers

NHRC initiates probe into sewage workers’ deaths in Greater Noida, seeks action taken report

The workers were killed while repairing a submersible pump to fix overflowing sewer on June 25 at the plant of a multinational IT company.

Why manual scavenging is still a problem for India in 2018 despite a slew of policies

None of the laws enacted so far seems to have done its job, as hundreds of manual scavengers continue to die in pits and sewers.

Sewage worker deaths wouldn’t happen if India worked as hard on it as it did for polio

Eleven sewage workers died in seven days despite manual scavenging being abolished years ago.

On Camera

Congress wasted a chance to turn the tables on BJP over Vande Mataram. It chose appeasement

Seven decades after Independence, the “Hindu Congress” is accusing the BJP on the same lines as the Muslim League had done.

NITI Aayog flags what India needs for its ‘$30 tn by 2047’ goal—‘a developed corporate bond market’

Report looks at imbalance between equity & corporate bond markets amid India’s growth ambitions and diverse capital needs, while outlining strategy to unlock full potential.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.