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TopicSwachch Bharat

Topic: Swachch Bharat

Department of Posts completes targets set for Special Campaign 4.0

New Delhi: In a nationwide effort, the Department of Posts has successfully completed its targets set for Special Campaign 4.0, contributing to the national...

Ministry of Ayush Makes Strides in Cleanliness Drive, aligns with PM Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ vision, says Minister

Launched on 2 October, the Special Campaign 4.0 focused on enhancing operational efficiency and transparency across government offices.

SubscriberWrites: How the government’s welfare schemes turn into a fad?

Rather than making it a public cause, if these had been made private causes involving every citizen of the country, some positive results would have been there.

Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs to conduct Swachhata Pakhwada, 2024

The process will include the review and disposal of pending physical files by the Ministry, a PIB press release stated.

Noida’s swachhta rankings jump has a lesson for Gurugram, Faridabad — get people on board

With drain water treatment, door-to-door campaigns, and a plant that processes construction and demolition waste, Noida is setting the bar high on cleanliness.

BJP takes on #10YearChallenge ‘Modi style’, but fails

A collage post highlighting Modi government's success was first shared by Facebook page Nation with NaMo. BJP Karnataka shared the same.

The ‘c’ in Swachh Bharat is caste and Modi needs to address it

Manual scavenging is a reality and Dalit women, particularly, will be forced to shoulder the burden of cleaning dry pits.

On Camera

What Gulf states would say to Iran. War is temporary, geography is permanent

Iran faces a choice that is larger than the immediate conduct of war. It can continue the logic of short-term escalation, or it can think in the longer historical frame.

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.