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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
TopicSwachh Bharat

Topic: Swachh Bharat

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On Camera

‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Zubeen Garg's funeral entered the Limca Book of Records as the fourth-largest such procession in the world.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.