NEW DELHI, Nov 1 (Reuters) - India aims to eradicate open-air defecation by 2012 by building toilets for hundreds of millions of its poor and homeless, well ahead of a global deadline to do so, a ...

The state government intends to make Karnataka open defecation free by October 2, commemorating the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, said rural development and panchayat raj minister Krishna Byre ...

From open defecation and waste burning to industrial dumping and cattle bathing, Delhi’s Munak Canal – a critical lifeline supplying raw water to the Capital – is choked with pollution. A new report ...

The focus in a letter addressing district officers, appears to be on open-defecation, LPG and tap water, interestingly, ...