Parliament will convene for a special session to advance the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. This move introduces a 33 percent reservation fo...

Sloths undertake a perilous weekly journey down trees to defecate. This act cultivates moths and algae in their fur. The algae offer vital ...

Of the 4,378 urban local bodies, 4,284 have been declared and certified as open defecation free.

Around 1.35 crore households in rural Bengal have been covered by the 'Mission Nirmal Bangla', which aimed at making all villages open defe...

The panchayat of Rambhakhedi village also served notices to 43 other families there to stop defecating in the open.

Stating that the state is rich but the people are poor, the chief minister said that the government was making efforts to develop basic ame...

So far, 61 districts and more than 1,14,332 villages have been declared Open Defecation Free

The announcement was made on the state's foundation day today. Earlier, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim had declared themselves Open Defecation...

A total of 141 towns in 7 states have claimed to have become Open Defecation Free including 100 in Maharashtra. These claims are under veri...

Nineteen cities in the state have achieved the status of being free of open defecation under the government's 'Swachh Maharashtra Mission'.

In India's case, there has been a reduction by 31 per cent in open defecation, a progress termed as "moderate" by the report.

The 'wall of shame' is a novel method in which names and photos of those who defecate in the open would be pasted on a village wall.

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

About 60 per cent of people in the world practicing open defecation live in India, a joint report published by the WHO and UNICEF has estim...

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen today urged Left parties to fight for eradication of the practice of open defecation and open toilets, in additi...

Jairam Ramesh today launched the 'Nirmal Bharat Yatra' to make the country free from open defecation, in Sewagaram Ashram.

People of 67 per cent households in rural India defecate in the open and several states "fudge" data on building of toilets.