The Swachh Bharat mission, launched in 2014, was an ambitious effort to stop open defecation. It's far from reaching that goal. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET News in Manhattan, ...

As the country heads to the polls, the current prime minister is declaring victory in his "Clean India" campaign. His party still won't acknowledge that the real problem is inequality. Over the next ...

An official report has contradicted Indian government claims that rural areas of the country are completely free from the practice of open defecation. The National Statistical Office (NSO) has ...

One billion people worldwide still practice “open defecation.” India alone has an estimated 600 million people defecating openly, according to a study by the United Nations, accounting for more open ...