MUMBAI, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farhana Shaikh used to recoil in disgust when she went to the communal toilet in Dharavi. But since the pandemic struck, efforts to fight COVID-19 have ...

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 ...

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday highlighted the long-standing issues, and neglect faced by underprivileged families living in the slum settlements of the national capital for decades, ...

Slum inhabitants are living in spaces that are overcrowded, unplanned, and without equitable access to transportation, water, and sanitation. Without the infrastructure or the resources for household ...

Country buoyed by vibrant business world but hamstrung by corrupt government. Television cables and a receiving dish are seen on the roofs of the makeshift homes in a slum in Mumbai, India. MUMBAI, ...

Since its launch in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Mission has built 11 crore individual toilets and 2.33 ...

Even with three years to go, the civic body will have to build at least 100 toilet seats a day to meet BJP’s Swachh Bharat goal. There are, according to the BMC’s own estimate, 79,542 toilet seats in ...

AHMEDABAD, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hansaben Rasid knows what it is like to live without a water tap or a toilet of her own, constantly fearful of being evicted by city officials keen on ...