The Swachh Bharat mission, launched in 2014, was an ambitious effort to stop open defecation. It's far from reaching that goal. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET News in Manhattan, ...

The problem isn’t just a lack of toilets—it’s a lack of toilets that people want to use. The result: millions of deaths and disease-stunted lives. sanitation-india-wasteA farmer in Peepli Khera heads ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s prime minister said Wednesday the country’s villages now all have access to toilets as his government announced another ambitious campaign aimed at eliminating single-use ...

HASANPUR, India Every morning before sunrise, Ravi Shankar Singh, a cheerful man known to his neighbors as “Luv” Singh, sets out to patrol the potholed roads and rice fields of this north Indian ...

LUCKNOW, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Two children from India's lowest caste were beaten to death by two men after they defecated outside, officials and relatives said on Thursday, in the latest case of ...

India is to be declared “open-defecation free” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday evening, although experts question his bold claim that all 1.3 billion people in the country have access to ...

New Delhi, Aug 30 (PTI) A large number of people in India defecate in the open despite having toilets at home, a senior government official said today. Only 30 per cent of the households in Bihar have ...

Nigeria will soon become number one in the global ranking of countries still practising Open Defecation (OD), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has said. With 47 million still practising open ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India's prime minister said Wednesday the country's villages now all have access to toilets as his government announced another ambitious campaign aimed at eliminating single-use ...