The age-old practice of boycotting work clicked once more, when more than 100 sanitation workers of Dhanbad Municipal Corporation (DMC) on Friday who had sat on dharna in front of the DMC office deman...

A section of the frontline workers are on the protest path in the Jharkhand capital demanding promised dues. Around 800 sanitation workers of Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC), who were recently hai...

Special athlete Neha Rajak received a part of her cash award from the union sports ministry on Friday. The union sports ministry credited a sum of Rs 1 lakh to the bank account of 19-year-old special...

The Centre has included sanitation projects in the 100-day rural job scheme at a time there has been an increase in demand for work under the MGNREGA because of lack of employment and job loss during ...

Rani, 35, screamed on Saturday as she watched a display of advanced equipment for cleaning sewer lines and sewage tanks.“My husband would not have died had these been available a month ago,” the m...

Overflowing drains, streets littered with trash and puddles of stagnant water on roads across 26 wards of Dhanbad Municipal Corporation (DMC) are likely to have an adverse impact on the district’s r...

In his March 15 release Mere Pyare Prime Minister, director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra looks at the issues of sanitation and violence against women through the eyes of a young child from the slums. The ...

After reaching electricity to all households earlier this month, Bihar is marching towards yet another milestone — making the state open-defecation free (ODF) by the end of the current fiscal, i.e. ...

Several years ago, in a rural recess of Bihar where I come from, a girl, barely ten, woke up one morning and slipped out into the open to relieve herself. Returning, she came upon a crop of spinach an...

Mayor Chandrashekhar Agarwal, accompanied by Ward 25 councillor Priyaranjan, city manager (sanitation) Vijay Kumar and other officials of Dhanbad Municipal Corporation, carried out a cleanliness drive...