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  Modi praises Salman Khan on 'Swachh Bharat' drive

  India | October 22, 2014 11:52 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday praised Bollywood superstar Salman Khan for joining the "Swachh Bharat" campaign and hoped it will be an inspiration for others."The effort by Salman Khan is a significant, one

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  Narendra Modi tells Mark Zuckerberg, think how social media can stop terror

  India | October 11, 2014 9:59 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on yesterday discussed the use of social media in checking terror activities and a host of other issues with social networking giant Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.The issues discussed included

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  AAP sends 2,500 photos to Delhi mayors showing garbage in city

  Politics | October 07, 2014 22:49 IST

  New Delhi: Asserting that the party supported the Narendra Modi government's ‘Swachh Bharat Mission', senior leaders of AAP today met the three mayors of Delhi and handed them around 2,500 photographs purportedly showing insanitary conditions

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  Support to Swachh Bharat no endorsement of BJP agenda: Tharoor

  Politics | October 06, 2014 14:54 IST

  Thiruvananthapuram: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has made it clear that his acceptance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to support the “Swachh Bharat Mission” does not imply that he endorses BJP's “core Hindutva” agenda and

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  Narendra Modi: Keep momentum going for Swachh Bharat

  India | October 04, 2014 17:28 IST

  New Delhi: Two days after launching the ‘Swachh Bharat' campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the momentum of “enthusiasm” generated by the drive should be kept going for the success of the mission.  He

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  South Central Railway joins cleanliness campaign

  India | October 03, 2014 7:13 IST

  Hyderabad: An estimated one lakh personnel across the South Central Railway (SCR) zone today joined hands in a massive special cleanliness campaign launched as part of the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission'.Railway officers, staff across all levels

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  Will devote 300 hours annually to 'Swachh Bharat' mission: Uma

  Politics | October 02, 2014 18:38 IST

  Jhansi: Union Minister for Water Resource and local MP, Uma Bharti, today said she will devote 300 hours instead of 100 hours annually to the ‘Swachh Bharat' mission.  Taking part in the campaign at different

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  Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched in Punjab, Haryana

  India | October 02, 2014 14:02 IST

  Chandigarh: To make ‘Swachh Bharat Mission' a people's movement, officials, activists and citizens across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh today launched a cleanliness drive on the 145th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.  The idea behind the

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  Government to spend Rs 2 lakh crore for 'Swachh Bharat Mission'

  India | September 26, 2014 10:10 IST

  New Delhi: Union Minister for Rural Development Nitin Gadkari said that ‘Swachh Bharat Mission', the pet mission of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be converted into a mass movement to make India an open

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  Swachh Bharat: Gowda seeks MP's help in sprucing up Railways

  India | September 25, 2014 17:30 IST

  New Delhi: Often criticised for being lax on cleanliness, Railways Minister has decided to make the most of ‘Swachh Bharat Mission' by involving his fellow Members of Parliament in leading the campaign to spruce up