India’s ambitious sanitation drive has created a health hazard, with many toilets built cheek by jowl with family water supplies

GURGAON: The Haryana government will no more give subsidy for constructing toilets but would provide incentives to village panchayats and municipal corporations for maintaining cleanliness, officia

THE AGRICULTURE ministry has constructed 2 645 ventilated double pit toilets at a cost of N$108 million in various regions of the country since 2014.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said the State would be open-defecation free by December next year and every household would be provided LPG connection.

Bhubaneswar: As many as 1,842 villages in the state have been declared open defecation-free so far.

Collector to appoint a resource person each for every 2 mandals.

Dhanbad: At least 58 villages of 19 panchayats under six Maoist-hit blocks of Girdih district were declared 'open defecation-free (ODF)' by the district administration on Sunday.

Almost half of Kenyans living in rural areas do not have access to basic sanitation, a new report shows.

Kolhapur: District guardian minister Chandrakant Patil on Sunday said the state government is keen on effective implementation of Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan in 20 villages in the district this year.

Eighteen states, including Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telengana and West Bengal, have set the ambitious target of making 400 cities and towns fre