News Briefs

Agriculture, rural jobs, food subsidy need big boost

Will the drubbing it faced in Delhi election and the huge controversy over its land Bill make BJP reconsider its economic thrust areas?

Facts and figures all you need to know about the state of sanitation in India

Mr Modi, Wish us a Happy Environment Day

‘Strong local government needed to achieve universal access to water and sanitation’

Leading organisations come together to ensure global water and sanitation needs by 2030

Does government really want sustainable sanitation for rural areas?

Repeated discussions over expensive and not-so-feasible technologies have led to disappointment within experts and industry

Letters

Letters

Letters

Letters

UN highlights importance of water in maintaining global peace

Stresses the need for better water management techniques worldwide

The travails of building a toilet – is this the road to a Swachh Bharat?

For poor and marginalized sections, building a toilet still entails a lot of red tape and costs

Can’t use a stinky public toilet? Expect a solution soon

A research aimed at increasing toilet use in countries has revealed striking observations

Where do Indians defecate?

Half of India's population defecates in the open. In all probability, they will continue to do so for the next 10 years

Doubts dog toilet-building campaign

Over half a billion, which is nearly half of the country’s population, defecate in the open

Breaching the threshold

How do we sustain our consumption patterns? And how can we feed the 1.2 billion living in poverty?

Mission possible

The Centre gives India just about eight years to free its villages of open defecation. This seems unlikely. But the states of Sikkim, Haryana and …

Millions still lack access to essential health services, says WHO report

Lack of universal health coverage pushed people into extreme poverty in 37 countries

Access to safe water, sanitation has improved, says WHO-UNICEF report

Some 2.5 billion people still use unimproved sanitation facilities; can the world achieve MDG target by 2015?

Better sanitation key to improving children's health: World Bank report

It can help reduce diarrhoea prevalence by 47 per cent among children

South Africa aims to speed up service delivery to all citizens

Country’s 20 year review shows jump in access to sanitation and water services between 1994 and 2014

One toilet every second: Modi government’s 100 day target

Union ministry issues orders to all states to meet target of constructing 5.2 million toilets by end of August

Malnutrition threatens 120 UN member nations, says global report

India performs well on under-5 stunting, but sanitation continues to be the biggest stumbling block

Silent epidemic: Superbugs killing India’s newborns

Each time we use antibiotics, we allow the few superbugs—bacteria that are able to survive the antibiotic—to thrive, says an expert

No toilet at home? Can’t contest local body polls in Bihar, says Nitish

State government to make amendments to the existing Bihar Panchayati Raj Act