Around 42 percent of the city’s total population living in 539 slums is without having access to a proper toilet and appropriate sanitation system.

Despite having reached the half-way mark, the Odisha Government has laid out an ambitious plan to achieve total sanitation by 2019.

Months after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called malnourishment among children a national shame, the Union Ministry of Women & Child Development (WCD) has now written to the Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories asking them to get “serious about fighting malnourishment especially among the children and women”.

WCD secretary Prem Narain said: “We have issued written instructions on Tuesday to all senior officials concerned and various Ministries to ensure that they contribute positively in the fight against this great challenge that the country faces today.

The district administration has failed entirely to provide clean potable water to the people of Jabalpur district.

Belpahari, Aug. 7: In the past 40 years, only one chief minister — S.S.

Altogether 16 persons have lost their lives due to floods and landslide related incidents that have occurred in the country last month and 22 persons have lost their lives due to diarrhea in this r

While doctors in the city say they have been flooded with cases of gastroenteritis and acute diarrhoea over the past couple of weeks, the health and sanitation wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municip

13 persons admitted to CDH with symptoms of vomiting, diarrhoea; 47 others being treated

A total of 13 persons were admitted to Communicable Diseases Hospital (CDH) in Tondiarpet on Sunday with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea. According to a Chennai Corporation official, the patients are residents of north Chennai. What began as a health and sanitation issue in and around Chetpet, creating a cholera scare last week, has now spread to other parts of the city.