Toilet
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World's first Toilet College to be operational from March next year in Rishikesh
India | Nov 19, 2015, 10:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: World Toilet College, being touted as the first such effort being made internationally, will be operational from March next year, its developers announced today on the occasion of United Nations World Toilet Day
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India has 60.4 pc people without access to toilet: Study
India | Nov 19, 2015, 05:58 PM ISTKochi: Around 60 per cent of Indians do not have access to safe and private toilets, a new study has claimed.A report titled 'It's No Joke - State of the World's Toilets' by WaterAid states
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World Toilet day: Know where India stands in the queue
India | Nov 19, 2015, 04:22 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made sanitation a priority for India. In his first independence day speech at Red Fort, he had said that he would rather build toilets than temples .The government
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Toilet construction is reflection of self-confidence, says PM Modi
National | Aug 15, 2015, 01:51 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the government has "almost" achieved the target of ensuring separate toilets for boys and girls in schools across the country, even as he asserted the achievement has
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90% of toilet target ahead, 4 years to go
Jul 15, 2015, 03:05 PM ISTOf more than 110 million rural households without toilets across India in 2012, the government has been able to assist 11 million households in building toilets. That means, nearly 99 million households need toilets over
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Jharkhand: Frustrated girl commits suicide after parents refuse to build toilet at home
India | Jul 04, 2015, 12:55 PM ISTDumka: A 17-year-old girl in Jharkhand yesterday committed suicide after parents refused her demand of a toilet in the house.Khushboo Kumari, a first year BA student in A N College, Dumka, hanged herself at her
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Bihar: Lack of toilet forces bride to leave in-laws home
India | Jun 18, 2015, 04:39 PM ISTPatna: Lack of toilet facilities compelled a newly-wed woman in Bihar village to leave her in-laws house and return to her parents home, an official said on Thursday."Hours after the marriage was solemnised on Wednesday,
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People in no-toilet villages indirectly consuming excreta: Government
India | Jan 04, 2015, 02:22 PM ISTNew Delhi: In a village of 1,200 people not having toilets, each inhabitant has to indirectly consume through contaminated food about three grams of each other's faecal matter every day, says a government report.The ‘Elementary
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Bring 'barat' only after building toilet, girl tells would-be in-laws in Rajasthan
India | Dec 08, 2014, 02:15 PM ISTJaipur: The impact of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' is clearly visible on the new generation.The latest story in this regard has come to fore from Rajasthan's Dholpur district. A woman here
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Government to spend over Rs 2,100 crore for toilets in 1,649 villages
National | Dec 04, 2014, 06:14 PM ISTNew Delhi: Government will spend over Rs 2,100 crore to build toilets and sewage treatment plants in 1,649 identified villages situated along both sides of Ganga river in five states, the Lok Sabha was told
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Groom slaps father-in-law for not having toilet in house
India | Dec 05, 2014, 07:41 AM ISTMirzapur: Every groom taking a ‘barat' to his ‘sasural' for marrying a girl of his dreams hopes for a joyful and lasting marriage relationship but in an interesting case, a groom slapped his would-be father-in-law
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Sulabh to felicitate woman who fought for toilet at home
India | Jan 12, 2014, 04:23 PM ISTBhopal: Sulabh International, known for its work in the field of sanitation, today announced an award of Rs two lakh for a Dalit woman from Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district who walked out of her matrimonial
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DU student secretly shoots video of 25-year-old MSc student in toilet, booked
India | Oct 04, 2013, 10:44 AM ISTNew Delhi: A Delhi University (DU) student allegedly made video footage of a 25-year-old MSc student on Thursday with his mobile phone when she was in the toilet, said police. The victim, who is in
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Over 67 pc rural households in India are without toilet access
India | Aug 19, 2013, 07:18 PM ISTNew Delhi: Over 67 per cent of rural households do not have access to toilets, according to government data.In reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today, Bharatsinh Solanki, minister of state for drinking
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'I spend 18 hours on toilet', says Jairam
India | Jun 08, 2012, 10:39 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jun 8: Amid the controversy over Rs 35 lakh expenditure on Planning Commission's toilets, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today quipped that he himself spends ‘18 hours of a day on toilets alone'.“I believe
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Asked To Wash Toilet For Coming Late, Gujarat Schoolboy Slips On Wet Floor, Loses Eye
India | Mar 15, 2012, 09:49 AM ISTAhmedabad, Mar 15: Ten-year-old Raju Makwana studies in Class Two in Hasanpur Municipal School Number 2 in Ahmedabad. On Wednesday, he came late to his class, and was ordered by the lady teacher to go
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US Man Gets 25 Years Jail For Drowing Wife In Toilet
World | Nov 27, 2010, 06:01 PM ISTEagle River, Wisconsin, Nov 27: A man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for drowning his wife in a toilet in 1999.Doug Plude was accused of poisoning 28-year-old Genell Plude with migraine medicine,