The concept - one rupee for a pee and two rupees for a poo - quickly caught on in a country where using a toilet in public often meant squatting behind a tree. His work in challenging India's ...

So, which is better- an Indian or Western toilet ... one can install a squatting seat or a step stool to raise the feet and imitate a squatting posture while using the toilet. This can prevent or ease ...

Kolkata, India (CNN) — Not far from the place I once ... in red plastic buckets from an outside tubewell. There's a common toilet, but men and women bathe out in the open. I think of Katherine ...

Inside, a white ceramic squat pan funnels waste ... who works to uplift Dalits, the flush toilet is the only path to social emancipation. “India has electricity and roads,” he says.

"The knee joint developed by our team has a spring assisted deep squat mechanism, which helps to use the Indian toilet system more comfortably; the knee rotating mechanism helps to have cross ...

Head coach Gautam Gambhir is under fire after India's recent Test series whitewash against New Zealand. Gambhir and ...

His single-occupancy cell is austere, measuring just 7 square meters (75 square feet), with a squat toilet beneath a shower. Inmates are not allowed to have furniture, so there’s no bed or ...

India has lodged a strong protest against Canada after one of Justin Trudeau’s ministers claimed that Union Home Minister of ...

It’s better to under-promise and over-deliver. India’s clean power industry is finally making good on that dictum. For several years, the country has fallen well short of the rosy visions ...

Narendra Modi vowed to continue as India’s prime minister even after his party lost its outright majority in parliament. The Bharatiya Janata Party fell short of the 272 seats needed for control ...

When toilet systems don’t work – or don’t exist – untreated human waste spreads in the environment, unleashing deadly diseases such as cholera. Governments must ensure that sanitation and ...