Health-watch

Life expectancy in India will be 71 by the year 2025, says the latest World Health Report

Managing wastes

The MEF draws up an ambitious plan for the management of municipal solid wastes

CAMBODIA

ARGENTINA

MGNREGS won't subsidise rural toilets, says Gadkari

New study shows the small improvement achieved in sanitation between 2001 and 2011 not enough to improve health outcomes

Review finds ADB's policy doesn't hold water

Since 1998, adb has invested us $960 million in urban projects in India.

Filthy art

Exhibition>> Dirt • The UK

DD social service ads preach, but rarely convert

How does public interest advertising work on Doordarshan? Even more to the point, does it work at all?

TIMELY GIFT

Keeping track

Following up on sustainable development summits

Simple, bare necessities

To what extent are basic household amenities available to India's people?

Global aid on sanitation is southward bound

World Toilet Day: India now aims to build one toilet every two seconds

The country needs to play a major role in reducing open defecation

Centre launches bio-toilets to curb open defecation

Around 100,000 toilets to be built in next two years in 300 gram panchayats

Plain talk about crap

Book>> The Big Necessity, The Unmentionable World Of Human Waste And Why It Matters • by Rose George • Metropolitan Books • …

Setting standards

The curse of poor sanitation

A bacterial disease kills 42 people in India

A land in turmoil

An assessment of environmental degradation must preclude rebuilding of Afghanistan

"Water is a national resource"

GOURISANKAR GHOSH, executive director, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Geneva, Switzerland tells NIDHI JAMWAL that there …

Mystery stricken

Fever killed 277 in Uttar Pradesh. No one knows the cause

Megacities get a Central boost

Taking big business to the trash cans

Stormwater channels

Alitalia apologies to wastepicker but that is not enough

For a few dollars more

Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, …