In a major step towards rural sanitation, 'Rail Swachch Mission' brand ambassador and founder of Sulabh Sanitation Movement Bindeshwar Pathak on Sunday launched an intensive campaign...
Over 3 lakh children, under the age of five, die due to diarrhoea and water borne diseases. This is not a phenomenon seen only in remote...
A Madhya Pradesh village with hundred per cent tribal population is set to be adopted by Union minister Prakash Javadekar with special focus on education and...
Leaders at the Global Citizen Festival India, held in Mumbai on Saturday, have made announcements and commitments towards ending extreme poverty in India and helping people...
Sick of smelly toilets, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has funded the development of an odour-blocking perfume that smells like poop as part of an ambitious effort...
U.N. Secretary General said this year's observance of World Toilet Day on Saturday will focus on 'toilets and jobs' — the impact of sanitation on livelihoods...
As India has the largest number of people in the world defecating in the open -- nearly 595 million people who do not use a toilet...
Tick-tock! The wait is over and later in the evening, more than 80,000 fans will be thronging to Mumbai's MMRDA grounds to watch Coldplay in action....
With the breakneck speed of expansion of cities, India has the greatest number of urban-dwellers in the world without safe, private toilets and practising open defecation...
In order to improve sanitary scenario through proper monitoring of work in this western Odisha city, Sambalpur Municipal Corporation (SMC) is all set to launch a...
The Swachh Bharat cycle rally, which began in Jammu, to spread message of sanitation and cleanliness, will reach New Delhi's Connaught Place this Sunday.
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) on Friday said that three states had become Open Defecation Free (ODF) while four more state were expected to...
To review the status of cleanliness in the villages and evaluate the impact of Swachh Bharat Mission, the government is going to conduct a rural sanitation...
Kerala has become the third Open Defecation Free (ODF) state in the country.