The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) says it is helping households to get more toilet facilities towards eradicating open defecation, a major health menace across the coun

World Toilet Day was on Thursday, celebrated for the first time in 2013 since the United Nations General Assembly adopted Singapore’s decision to dedicate 19 November for that day.

"It is estimated that only one in three families (34 per cent) in Tanzania has access to improved toilets with wide disparities between regions, across urban and rural areas," according to a report

To fast track the construction of toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission, the Coimbatore Corporation plans to tap Corporate Social Responsibility funds from corporate companies.

To ensure cleaner urban areas, the Haryana government has sanctioned construction of Individual Household Latrine (IHL) for 32,115 eligible beneficiaries under the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’.

ASAHIKAWA, HOKKAIDO – The inventor of a new kind of toilet based on sawdust calls it a hygienic solution for whenever there is no water or drainage, such as after natural disasters.

Private companies in Pimpri Chinchwad have helped construct 93 individual toilets in Rajiv Gandhinagar slums in Pimpale Saudagar.

The Supreme Court has taken note of one of the minimum criteria that a person must have for contesting panchayat elections in Haryana — a toilet in the house — and asked the state government to fil