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Sulabh International founder gets UN Award

Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International that runs public toilets in India, was honored by the Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization at the United Nations headquartersin New......

Sulabh founder, pioneer in building public toilets, dies

Sulabh International founder and social activist Bindeshwar Pathak, a pioneer in building public toilets, died on Tuesday at AIIMS Delhi due to a cardiac arrest, according to a close aide. The......

Diya Diwali For Vrindavan's Widows

Thousands of widows of Vrindavan and women abandoned by their families celebrated Diwali by lighting diyas at the Keshi Ghat on the Yamuna river in Mathura. Dressed in white saris, the......

Time magazine salutes Sulabh founder

Sulabh International founder and well-known sanitation expert Bindeshwar Pathak has been named as one of the 31 "Environment Heroes" of this year by Time magazine. In its latest issue, the magazine......

President meets Sulabh members

After a rousing tour to the United Nations, the members of the Sulabh International called on President Pratibha Patil at theRashtrapathiBhavan on Friday. Read rediff's special on their UN tour......

Sulabh toilets may be taxed

A rather pressing matter is doing the rounds with regard to pay-and-use toilets like Sulabh. While users have nothing to worry about for the moment, it appears that service tax of 12.24 per cent......

India's shining cases: PCOs, Sulabh

Public call offices and Sulabh Sauchalaya, which has redefined sanitation by developing low-cost pay-and-use toilets being used by about 10 million people a day, have emerged as the most successful......

Can 'Toil-o-preneurs' solve India's sanitation woes

On the one had are sanitation oriented social enterprises and on the other are awareness raising campaigns by government, writes Rajni Bakshi. A law that bans toilets where human excreta has......

Build toilets in the mind first

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exhortation to end open defecation has resulted in two large donations for the cause: Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) each from the Bharti Foundation, the......

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