The rape and murder of two teenaged girls in Uttar Pradesh has put the focus back on lack of access to private toilets in villages, forcing women and girls to go out to defecate in the open which m

A Baradwari locality is set to be the first milestone in Jamshedpur’s journey towards becoming a slum-free city.

HYDERABAD: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) commissioner Somesh Kumar has directed housing department officials to prepare detailed project reports (DPRs) on two-bedroom houses for we

PUNE: The slums in the city will promote the use of unconventional energy if the civic body's plan to use solar energy to power lights is approved.

Concerned over spurt in crocodile attacks in the Vishwamitri river, the forest department has now decided to construct public toilets for those staying on the banks.

Where power cables are not viable, the sun will light up the streets at night. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is getting ready to install solar streetlights in slum settlements.

Visiting Regional Director of UNDP Haol ang Xu on Monday has applauded Bangladesh’s efforts in cutting down urban poverty by 13 percent in the last four years.

One more water body in the City appears to be disappearing fast, with hunderds of truckloads of soil being dumped into Chunchaghatta lake.

The People’s Campaign for Right to Water (PCRW), a non-government organisation, which noticed the illegal activity, has lodged a complaint with the chief secretary to the State government, commissioners of BBMP and BDA, deputy commissioner of Bangalore Urban district, Bangalore South tahsildar, Lake Development Authority and Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force, but to no avail.

The city continues to bear the stigma of poor sanitation practices.