Amitabh Kant highlighted India's infra advancements over the past nine years, noting a tripling of cities with metro coverage, 92,000 km of...

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking investigation into the toilet...

Trinamool happens to be standing in the way of the Modi government’s sanitation promise of ensuring an ‘open defecation free urban India’ b...

On most occasions, passengers are forced to sit on the floor due to a shortage of benches on station premises.

The Modi government had set an ambitious target of building 65.82 lakh individual household toilets and five lakh community and public toil...

A review undertaken by secretary, urban development, DS Mishra, on Monday revealed that by Gandhi Jayanti, 1,559 cities and towns — about 4...

“We aim to create 1 crore people digitally literate on e-payments, and in a matter of 3-4 days, the government can touch this figure in rur...

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) had carried out the first survey since the initiation of the mission in 2014.

It is critical that we integrate the fragmented elements of the Indian sanitation space, both in terms of discussions and players.

The entire state is swiftly heading to meet the ODF target under the 'Swachh Bharat Mission', SBM's state consultant Rupesh Rathore said.

More than 500 million of the rural population in India continue to defecate in the open, suffering from preventable deaths, illness, stunti...

In rural areas, surveyors found homes using toilets for storing grains and still going to the fields early in the morning to relieve themse...

Poor sanitation can cause ill health is well-known but the new study finds open defecation leads to children with low birth weights and an ...

The data emerges from a report, "Housing Conditions in Delhi", prepared by the directorate of economics & statistics based on the 69th roun...

Murti blocked 109 schools in Bhubaneswar on the HRD Ministry website which was thrown open to private sector to book the schools of their i...

In Paryavaran Bhavan, which has ministries of drinking water and sanitation, the stench from a washroom is unbearable, staircase is laden w...

An estimated 13 lakh people continue to manually remove human excreta in the country, 14 years after it was prohibited by a legislation, ma...