A celebration with 25,000 people in attendance is being planned to be held on the riverfront, complete with a world-class laser show in the...

The Nuh district administration, however, later said the move to rename the village was "illegal", forcing the organisation members to remo...

For a show of this level, the organisers had hired local cleaning women to attend to the toilets, instead of professional housekeepers.

According to government records, at present about 13 per cent urban households in India have no toilets and 7 per cent of urban population ...

According to a World Health Organisation and UNICEF report of 2014, already 82% of the 1 billion people practising open defecation in the w...

Chaudhary Birender Singh today said as he urged social groups and communities to work towards the goal of making India open defecation-free.

Stressing on the importance of toilets in every village, especially for women, BJP MP Hema Malini today said the cost for building good qua...

Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu today said his government has set a target to make the state open defecation free by 2016.

Jack Sim, founder of World Toilet Organisation in 2001, is optimistic and driven by the goal of "making the toilet the happiest room in Ind...

'The campaign launched by Prime Minister Modi is similar to a programme launched in Singapore after its independence when we had poor sanit...

UNICEF said the call to end the practice of open defecation is being made with growing insistence as the links with childhood stunting beco...

Jain was awarded for his work in founding Humanure Power (HP) in Bihar in 2011 that builds community sanitation facilities in rural India.

Modi will be among the dozen world leaders, who will be attending the free ticketed event that will be held in the Great Lawn of the Centra...

Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal today made a surprise visit to the New Delhi Railway station to inspect the fitting of bio-toilets on p...

Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna today appealed to DRDO and FICCI to construct eco-friendly toilets for pilgrims on the Char Dhaam...

The newly developed bio-toilets being installed in Railways that treat human waste with bacteria will not only address sanitation problem b...

To prevent open defecation along the Dhamra coast, DRDO have taken up a project of installing 1000 bio-toilets.