Human Excreta

Four members of a family, including three women, were forced to consume human excreta over alleged suspicion of the family practising witchcraft in Jharkhand's Dumka.

Six elderly men were tortured and forced to consume human excreta over suspicions of witchcraft in Odisha's Ganjam district, the police said today.

A 35-year-old woman in Nepal was allegedly beaten up and forced to eat human faeces by a group of villagers over accusations of witchcraft, the police said on Sunday.

Three people were allegedly forced to consume human excreta in Jharkhand's Giridih town last week on the suspicion of practising witchcraft, the police said on today.

A tribal couple in Madhya Pradesh was allegedly forced to eat human excreta by villagers on suspicion of practising black magic. The man told the police that the accused dragged him out of his home in Sarwani village in Shivpuri district, tied him to a tree and thrashed him. When his wife tried to intervene, both of them were forced to eat human fa...

Days after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued a circular stating that dumping excreta from a flying airplane would attract a fine of Rs 50,000, the aviation regulator Tuesday told the National Green Tribunal that it was impossible to dump human waste mid-air from aircraft toilets.

The 982 residents of the small American town of Parrish, Alabama have been living a stinky nightmare for the last two months. Nearly 10 million pounds of human excreta has been lying abandoned in the town after it was dumped in trainloads, reports CNN.

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Thursday told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it did not have equipment to tell if the poop that fell over a house in New Delhi, allegedly from an airplane, was human or a bird's.

Kerala women's commission chairperson MC Josephine today alleged that in the last few weeks she has received several threat letters and even human excreta packed in a cover ever since they took up a case against legislator PC George.

By Swagata Yadavar/ Indiaspend.org New Delhi: The central government has claimed that 91 per cent of manual scavengers have been provided a one-time cash payment of Rs 40,000 and 108 per cent of identified scavengers and their dependents have been selected for skill training under the rehabilitation programme for manual scavengers. Of 12,742 manual...

Human excreta being splattered on houses from aeroplanes while landing today led the National Green Tribunal to slap a fine of Rs 50,000 on the airline whose aircraft empties its waste tanks midair.

As planes fly above his neighbourhood in South Delhi, they empty human waste, a former army officer has alleged. The country's top environmental court has ordered an inspection to determine if he's right (here's hoping he's not).

The US space agency NASA has funded researchers to find out how to recycle human excreta into food that can help astronauts sustain on deeper space missions, including Mars.

Rail tracks in a stretch of 175 km will not be strewn with human excreta from October 2 with installation of bio-toilets on trains plying on two routes, marking completion of the first year of the launch of Swachh Bharat Campaign by PM Modi.

Four members of a family, including three women, were forced to consume human excreta over alleged suspicion of the family practising witchcraft in Jharkhand's Dumka.

Six elderly men were tortured and forced to consume human excreta over suspicions of witchcraft in Odisha's Ganjam district, the police said today.

A 35-year-old woman in Nepal was allegedly beaten up and forced to eat human faeces by a group of villagers over accusations of witchcraft, the police said on Sunday.

Three people were allegedly forced to consume human excreta in Jharkhand's Giridih town last week on the suspicion of practising witchcraft, the police said on today.

A tribal couple in Madhya Pradesh was allegedly forced to eat human excreta by villagers on suspicion of practising black magic. The man told the police that the accused dragged him out of his home in Sarwani village in Shivpuri district, tied him to a tree and thrashed him. When his wife tried to intervene, both of them were forced to eat human fa...

Days after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued a circular stating that dumping excreta from a flying airplane would attract a fine of Rs 50,000, the aviation regulator Tuesday told the National Green Tribunal that it was impossible to dump human waste mid-air from aircraft toilets.

The 982 residents of the small American town of Parrish, Alabama have been living a stinky nightmare for the last two months. Nearly 10 million pounds of human excreta has been lying abandoned in the town after it was dumped in trainloads, reports CNN.

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Thursday told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it did not have equipment to tell if the poop that fell over a house in New Delhi, allegedly from an airplane, was human or a bird's.

Kerala women's commission chairperson MC Josephine today alleged that in the last few weeks she has received several threat letters and even human excreta packed in a cover ever since they took up a case against legislator PC George.

By Swagata Yadavar/ Indiaspend.org New Delhi: The central government has claimed that 91 per cent of manual scavengers have been provided a one-time cash payment of Rs 40,000 and 108 per cent of identified scavengers and their dependents have been selected for skill training under the rehabilitation programme for manual scavengers. Of 12,742 manual...

Human excreta being splattered on houses from aeroplanes while landing today led the National Green Tribunal to slap a fine of Rs 50,000 on the airline whose aircraft empties its waste tanks midair.

As planes fly above his neighbourhood in South Delhi, they empty human waste, a former army officer has alleged. The country's top environmental court has ordered an inspection to determine if he's right (here's hoping he's not).

The US space agency NASA has funded researchers to find out how to recycle human excreta into food that can help astronauts sustain on deeper space missions, including Mars.

Rail tracks in a stretch of 175 km will not be strewn with human excreta from October 2 with installation of bio-toilets on trains plying on two routes, marking completion of the first year of the launch of Swachh Bharat Campaign by PM Modi.