The Supreme Court of India has directed the Centre and states to take measures to eradicate manual sewer cleaning and improve the condition...

The Supreme Court of India has ruled that government authorities will have to pay compensation to the families of those who die while clean...

Eleven people, including three children, died after allegedly inhaling toxic gas in the city's thickly populated Giaspura locality on Sunda...

Bandicoot, a robotic machine with “limbs”, HD vision cameras and gas sensors, can enter manholes and clean sewage. It is the flagship produ...

"However, 233 persons have died due to accidents while undertaking hazardous cleaning of sewer and septic tanks during the last three years...

"The state government should make it mandatory to completely mechanise the process of cleaning sewers and septic tanks so that people's liv...

The social justice and empowerment ministry is set to introduce the Manual Scavenging Amendment Bill, which would make manually cleaning se...

According to official data, over 900 workers have died while cleaning sewers or septic tanks since 1993 but activists say the number is muc...

The bill proposes to make the law banning manual scavenging more stringent by increasing the imprisonment term and the fine amount, the off...

According to sources, the second part of the plan is the major challenge. It would involve ministries of housing and urban affairs, drinkin...

The latest survey has revealed that manual scavenging is prevalent in many states.

Several manual scavengers have died while cleaning sewer lines in Delhi in the recent years.

A band of young men and women drove into the national capital after a long bus journey lasting 125 days crisscrossing nearly 500 districts ...

The bus stops at various bastis of safai karamcharis and other places suitable for corner meetings where they talk about the humiliation of...

Eight fire tenders, teams of National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF), local police and officials from district administration have rushed to ...

Sate fisheries corporation may soon decide to ban fishing activities in Gomti river. This is after thousands of fishes were found dead and ...

At least 43 animals , including several black bucks, died in Delhi Zoo in September this year and most of the deaths were due to consumptio...