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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
TopicSwachh Bharat

Topic: Swachh Bharat

Jaw-dropping photo brings home farmer stir for readers, but one paper may have gone too far

Simrin Sirur -
Your daily news capsule.

These technologies can end manual scavenging and save lives of sewage workers

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
Sewage workers continue to die despite the practice being illegal, and the govt has allegedly not done much despite massive funding available under Swachh Bharat.

While manual scavengers continue to die, FM writes op-ed ode to Swachh mission

Simrin Sirur -
Your daily news capsule

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

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

PM Modi picks up broom, launches ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ campaign

PTI -
Modi urges all sections of society to help fulfil Gandhi’s dream of a clean India.

PM Modi on I-Day: Promises and quotable quotes that have marked the Red Fort address

Sankalita Dey -
Wednesday's speech will be the last of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's current tenure.

Swachh Bharat has made little difference, govt should factor in criticism

Pritha Chatterjee -
The government pins its rebuttal on a NARSS study, which it backs, while questions on methodology and scale remain

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

Amitabh Bachchan may be a great actor but even he can’t get Indians into toilets for Modi

Pritha Chatterjee -
The programme should turn people into willing toilet users and not because Amitabh Bachchan may shame them for open defecation.

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.
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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Syed Irfan Raza -
Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

SRK is more Johnny Depp than Depp

In India, pushing through a policy is easier than changing a culture. Period

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Economy

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Aneesa PA -
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

Defence

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

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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