The Dalits unblocking India's sewers by hand The Swachh Bharat Mission or Clean India programme seeks to end open defecation by increasing toilet infrastructure and improving sanitation across the ...

The political war between Congress and AAP has escalated in Delhi with Rahul Gandhi releasing video of open sewers and unfinished construction in Delhi to mock Arvind Kejriwal.

India’s prime minister marked the opening of a tunnel in the northeast of disputed Kashmir that will grant all-year accessibility to a town that is isolated by heavy snow each winter ...

Observing that manual scavenging deaths may not occur if people maintain sewers and drains as pristine as their arteries ...

known as Asia's densest and featured in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning 2008 movie "Slumdog Millionaire", stands in contrast to India's development boom with its open sewers and shared toilets ...

That was the literal stink - the Thames became an open sewer. Alamy Cholera was rife ... points off gross domestic product (GDP), in India and Bangladesh over 6%, and in Cambodia 7%.

Citing data from its first-ever survey of sewer and septic tank workers (SSWs) across cities and towns of India, the Union Social Justice Ministry on Tuesday (December 17, 2024) told Parliament ...