Imagine living in a slum in India without a toilet in your home. Every time you have to relieve yourself, you must walk 15 minutes to the community toilet, a run-down set of stalls that lack a water ...

crowded tenement in the slums of India's Pune city, Shailaja Paik grew up, surrounded by alleys strewn with garbage and ...

More than half the residents of slums in three areas in ... wrote K Srinath Reddy, president of the think tank Public Health Foundation of India, recently. He says we simply don't know enough ...

sanitation-india-wasteA farmer ... of help to construct a toilet, so there is no excuse.” At a community toilet complex in Safeda Basti, one of Delhi’s many slums, women wait their turn ...

Union home minister Amit Shah attacked Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday, claiming the toilet in the latter's ‘Sheesh Mahal’ is more expensive than the entire slums.

Mumbai: Bombay high court observed that slum-dwellers "hold law-abiding citizens to ransom". Slums have grown "manifold" in the last 30 years, and the situation that prevailed in the city in 1993 has ...