The petition filed by Mukta Sathe and other citizens, including students, was heard by the western zone bench of the NGT in Pune.

The government is mooting significant changes to the Coastal Regulation Zone notification (CRZ), file inspections under RTI by members of an NGO, Centre for Policy Research (CPR) has revealed.

The survey was carried out on 407 stations

Visakhapatnam railway station is the cleanest, followed by the one in Secunderabad, among the 75 busiest stations.

The collector set a target of June 2 to complete construction of all these toilets and declared Mahbubabad an ODF.

The use of bucket toilets in Namibia will be a thing of the past by the end of 2017, Namibian Minister of Urban and Rural Development Sophia Shaningwa said Monday.

NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Bio-sanitation toilets have been launched in Kenya in order to eliminate pit latrines which have been blamed for contaminating ground water, the inventor said on Thursday.

Kibaale — Health officials in Kibaale District have revealed that 87 per cent of residents in the district don't wash hands after using pit-latrines.