MUKHRAI, India – Rameshwar Natholi received an unexpected gift from the government recently when workers descended on his modest home in this rural village in the northern Indian state of Uttar ...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — The two teenage girl cousins had walked out together at night, as they did every night, into the wild bamboo fields 10 or 15 minutes from their mud-and-straw huts to relieve ...

Forty-eight percent — nearly 500 million — people in India lack a home bathroom, forcing them to seek public toilets or relieve themselves in the open. While that alone brings up specific health ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Going from village to village in India to promote the use of toilets that use worms to break down fecal matter, the team from the Institute for Transformative ...

The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday (Jan 15), in a landmark ruling towards gender equality directed all state governments ...

Of the 27,104 girls and co-ed schools in Punjab, 379 are running without proper toilet facilities for girl students: Data ...