Topic: Toilets
Karnataka coverts old bus into toilet for women, equips it with sanitary pads, baby stalls
Run on solar power, the Sthree toilet-bus parked at Majestic Central Bus Stand in Bengaluru has Indian & western toilets, solar sensor lights, and baby diaper changing areas.
Coronavirus in vacant Chinese apartment suggests it could’ve spread through toilet pipes
Traces of SARS-CoV-2 were found on the sink, faucet & shower handle of an apartment, which was directly above the home of 5 people who tested Covid positive a week before.
Four things to check before you use a public bathroom in coronavirus times
Researchers have found that the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, can be shed in faeces for up to a month after the illness.
Swachh Bharat toilets without sanitation is why Dalits are at the receiving end
Modi government needs to extend the scope of the Swachh Bharat campaign and improve sanitation keeping in mind that many sanitation workers are Dalits.
Railway TTEs will now have to check cleanliness in toilets of general, sleeper coaches
Railway TTEs will also have to keep a tab on cleaning schedule in the coaches, and water availability. Order to be issued this month.
Gandhi valued sanitation more than Independence. Modi’s Swachh Bharat is fulfilling his dream
A UNICEF study showed that on average, ODF village households accrued cumulative benefits of Rs 50,000 per year and their property value increased by Rs 19,000.
93% rural households have access to toilets & 96.5% use them, says survey
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
Study suggests the high user charges are undermining the benefits of the Modi government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
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.
World’s biggest nationwide toilet building campaign is creating new markets in India
The campaign to promote latrines has resulted in a market for toilet-related products and services predicted to double to $62 billion by 2021.
Listen to Mohan Bhagwat’s Dussehra speech. You won’t say RSS lacks intellectual bandwidth
Mainstream Indian media used to denigrate and ridicule RSS. But it is now publishing its chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statements as front-page news.
Iraq PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi bets big on economic reforms
Kadhimi's govt is pushing a soup-to-nuts overhaul in the next three to five years. The path of least resistance would have been to wait until the general election next summer.
Defence
India & US agree on deeper cooperation in Indo-Pacific as Rajnath meets Mark Esper
The hour-long meeting between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his US counterpart Mark Esper came a day before the bilateral 2+2 ministerial dialogue in Delhi.
Trump or Biden? Doesn’t matter to India-US ties as they’re in a full, strategic embrace
Pompeo & Esper’s visit to India for the 2+2 talks is proof that old hypocrisies are history, and supreme national interest has again driven a strategic choice.