Flush, but don't forget

Railways pulled up over scavengers

A draft bill allows employing manual scavengers if they are provided protective gears

Reclaiming water

India lifted 271 mln people out of poverty in 10 yrs, claims govt report

The poverty estimates used to back the claims, however, are decade old

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

Corporation for Sustainable Development

Pune is clean

According to Report

Pee for plants

Experiments explore the potential of urine as fertilizer

Fish and a philosophy

A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management

Water riddles

Post-floods, Orissa's tribal districts suffer cholera outbreak

Kathmandu's water supply plan gets going

Science & Technology - Briefs

South Asia

Court orders water supply scheme for Khurpatal

Growing construction in the hill station is drying up springs downhill

New report on skewed urbanisation in India

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants

FORESTS: Losing its soul

Karachi expressway elicits protests

Shanghai-ed

Dismal picture of Maharashtra's environment

The water supply data in rural areas

Scrap godown fire in Ghaziabad kills one