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Madhya Pradesh: Two children beaten to death for defecating in open
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Shivpuri (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Sept 25 (ANI): Two children were allegedly beaten to death for defecating in the open in Shivpuri on Wednesday morning.
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Chhattisgarh: Locals in Basera Khurd village forced to defecate in open
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Balrampur (Chhattisgarh) [India], Sept 20 (ANI): People at Basera Khurd village in Chhattisgarh's Balrampur are forced to defecate in the open as toilets approved under a government scheme have not yet been built in the region.
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Open defecation down by 47 pc in India between 2000-2017: WHO-UNICEF repor
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 19 (ANI): As much as 43 per cent of Indians have gained access to basic sanitation, while the practice of open defecation decreased by 47 per cent in the country between 2000 and 2017, says a WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report.
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India's largest Rural Sanitation Survey launched
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 15 (ANI): On the occasion of 73rd Independence Day, Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Thursday launched India's largest Swachh Survekshan Grameen (Rural Sanitation Survey), 2019 in New Delhi.
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'Toilet: Ek Prem Katha' turns two, Bhumi Pednekar 'proud' of her on-ground
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 11 (ANI): Bhumi Pednekar who made heads turn with her admirable work in the 2017 film 'Toilet: Ek Prem Katha', is rejoicing over the film's two years of release.
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Devoid of basic amenities, locals in this MP village still defecate in the
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 17 (ANI): Locals in Sarotipura village near Bhopal claim that they still defecate in the open, despite the city having been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) in 2017.
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Despite toilets under Swacch Bharat scheme, locals in MP village defecate
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Seoni (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 7 (ANI): Toilets built under the Swachh Bharat Mission in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Seoni district are allegedly not fit for use.
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Budget 2019-20: India will be open-defecation free on October 2 this year,
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 05 (ANI): India will be made open-defecation free (ODF) on October 2, 2019, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday.
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Over 9.5 cr toilets built across India under Swachh Bharat Mission: Econom
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): Over 9.5 crore toilets have been built all over the country and 564,658 villages have been declared open-defecation free (ODF) under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), says the Economic Survey 2018-19 which Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sithara
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Water management to be Modi's priority if NDA is re-elected
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): In his last election rally of 2019 Narendra Modi gave an indication as to what his priority will be in his second term if his party is elected back to power. If Modi shocked the nation from Red Fort on August 15, 2014, by speaking about Indians not keeping
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Renuka Chowdhury tears into BJP MP for his 'open defecation' remark
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 28 (ANI): Congress leader and former Union Minister Renuka Chowdhury on Sunday tore into BJP MP Rajveer Singh over his controversial remark about Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi.
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BJP MP slams Congress over open defecation
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Mahoba (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr 28 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Rajveer Singh on Saturday took a controversial jibe at Rahul Gandhi and said that the Congress president would have known the importance of building toilets if his grandmother (Indira Gandhi) and mother (Sonia G
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