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Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to supporters as he campaigns for his party in the Uttar Pradesh state elections in Varanasi. (Photo: PTI)

Opinion

Still waiting for good times

After three years of Modi Sarkar, we are still nowhere close to achche din.

25 May 2017 6:25 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

Opinion

New India under the Maximum Leader

In three years of Mr Modi's rule, the government has managed to obfuscate India's constitutional guarantees.

24 May 2017 3:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: AP)

Newsmakers

Bihar woman gifts 'amazing' basket made out of waste plastic to Modi

Fifty-year-old Gita uses plastic waste like wrappers and polythene to make vases, baskets and similar items.

23 May 2017 6:49 PM IST

Mhaiskar also appreciated the efforts taken by BMC to make the city ODF. (Photo: AFP)

Metros

Mumbai may soon become open-defecation free city

The state government has set itself a target of making all urban areas ODF by October 2, 2017.

30 Dec 2016 10:52 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St.Petersburg. (Photo: AP)

Opinion

Perks and perils of self-publicity

The Planning Commission is replaced by the Niti Aayog, where Niti stands for National Institution for Transforming...

4 Jun 2017 12:10 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: File)

Newsmakers

Modi cracks up on Deewar-Swacch Bharat spinoff poster on Twitter

Modi couldn't help cracking up at the poster which was tweeted to the Prime Minister by a follower.

12 April 2017 2:13 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in Lok Sabha, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

India

PM defends note ban in Lok Sabha, tears into Cong, Rahul

Amidst noise and disruption by the Opposition, the Prime Minister continued to pull punches.

8 Feb 2017 2:22 AM IST

$People walk past a poster of the US President Donald Trump at Maroda Village which was renamed as \Trump Village\ in Nuh district of Haryana ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modis trip to Washington. (Photo: PTI)$ India

Ahead of Modi's US visit, Haryana village renamed 'Trump Sulabh...

Sulabh, a non-governmental organisation, provides affordable sanitation and toilets to the masses to end the practice of...

24 Jun 2017 10:38 AM IST

The victims brother Noor Mohammed has named five officials including Nagar Parishad commissioner Ashok Jain, in his complaint. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

India

Rajasthan: Man killed by civic officials was protecting wife, daughter

Civic officials beat up 44-year-old for protesting photos they were clicking of the women defecating in the open.

17 Jun 2017 3:05 PM IST

Business

Adopt bio-toilets at railway stations: Prabhu tells India Inc

Prabhu said industry should apply their business minds to develop water-less, odour-less toilets.

27 April 2017 6:18 PM IST

An official demonstrates the feedback machine. DD

Metros

Mumbai: Soon, press button to like/dislike loos

The BMC has put up a one-of-its-kind feedback machine with three buttons depicting various emotions outside a toilet.

10 Dec 2016 6:17 AM IST

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. (Photo: PTI)

Metros

50 detained after theft in Shashi Tharoor's residence

The police have rounded up and questioned over 50 people, including vagabonds, but no breakthrough has been achieved so...

8 Dec 2016 2:14 AM IST