NHRC advisory to Centre, states for protection of rights of...

New Delhi [India], September 29 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued an advisory to the...

Jaipur company develops robot for drainage cleaning with aim...

Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], August 6 (ANI): To prevent loss of lives because of manual cleaning of sewers and septic...

Plea in Delhi HC to make Centre party to petition seeking...

New Delhi [India], July 31 (ANI): An application has been filed in Delhi High Court seeking urgent listing and...

Continuance of manual scavenging goes against Constitutional...

New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson Justice A. K. Mishra said on...

Manual scavenging an embarrassment for India, says Jaya Bachchan

New Delhi [India], March 23 (ANI): Actor-turned-politician Jaya Bachchan on Tuesday said it is a source of...

PIL against manual scavenging, SC adjourns to August saying...

New Delhi [India], March 22 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to August the hearing on a plea filed...

Amitabh Bachchan pledges to join 'any campaign' that works...

New Delhi [India], October 14 (ANI): Talking about the plight of sanitation workers, megastar Amitabh Bachchan on...

Anand Mahindra joins as Genrobotics raises Rs 2.5 crore in...

Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Oct 7 (ANI): Genrobotics, a Thiruvananthapuram-based robotics company, has...

Manholes in Guwahati to be cleaned by Robots

Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 29 (ANI): Siddhartha Bhattacharya, Guwahati Development Department (GDD) Minister on...

Manual scavenging-- a caste-based discrimination that...

Karachi [Pakistan], May 5 (ANI): It's a cultural, traditional inertia of sorts that the descendants of lower-caste...

Usha Chaumar's inspirational journey from manual scavenger to...

Alwar (Rajasthan) [India], Jan 27 (ANI): Once a manual scavenger, Usha Chaumar from Alwar has won the Padma Shri...

Coimbatore municipal corporation uses robots to end manual...

Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India], Nov 22 (ANI): In a bid to eliminate manual scavenging in Coimbatore, the municipal...