Climbing Walls

A UK based 13-year-old school boy Hibiki Kono does a spiderman with a vacuum cleaner. He climbs the walls with the help of a backpack vacuum cleaner which uses the…

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Bacteria Killing Paper

To ward off harmful bacteria, scientists have created a new form of paper which could have wide ranging applications from anti-bacterial bandages to food packaging that keeps food fresh for…

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Winner in Cleanliness

The Parassala Government Hospital in Neyyattinkara in Kerala has won the State Pollution Control Board’s award for cleanliness and waste management practices. The hospital came first in the category of…

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Bacteria Toilets

Lakshwadeep Islands will be the first in India to use bacteria in toilets. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will be installing 21 such biological toilets in Kavaratti and…

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Now it’s Rajasthan

The Rajasthan Government has recently announced a complete ban on use of plastic carry-bags all over the state from August. A notification declared the entire state a “plastic carry-bag-free zone”.…

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Let’s do it!

“Let’s do it, Delhi,” urged the Delhi’s Health and Family Welfare Ministry at a cleanli-ness drive in South Delhi. About five tonnes of garbage was removed from Green Park Market,…

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Low cost Toilets

The Kheda District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union Limited (Amul Dairy) has launched a novel scheme for rural sanitation. The dairy will provide interest free loans to its milk producers in…

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T1, T2, T3… Rising Challenges of Indian Cleaning Industry

About 150 cleaning machines, more than a 100 cleaning tools, gallons of cleaning agents, a dozen service providers, over 1500 cleaning workers… these and more are collectively engaged in maintaining the massive structure of the Terminal 3 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. In spite of the organisational difficulties like budgetary constraints, equipment limitations, manpower inadequacies and above all passenger indifference, the cleaning industry is gearing up to see that T3 could be kept as clean as it is today. An exclusive report by Mohana M.

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