Toilet

With even toilet paper scarce, Venezuelan president warms to business

Reuters | Wednesday May 22, 2013

A Venezuelan supermarket puts a stack of toilet paper on its shop floor, and desperate consumers snatch it up within five minutes. A woman's voice over the loudspeaker reminds shoppers each person can only buy four packages.

Peek before you pee: New app flushes out clean and dirty public toilets

Reuters | Thursday May 9, 2013

The mobile app facilitates the collection of information by the RAS volunteers during mystery audits.

Assault on six-year-old: Teenage boy detained

Press Trust of India | Monday April 29, 2013

A 15-year-old boy was detained on Sunday in connection with the assault on a six-year-old girl inside a public toilet even as doctors were awaiting a medical report to ascertain whether she was sexually assaulted.

6-year-old girl found with throat slit inside public toilet in Delhi; police suspect she was raped

Sonal Mehrotra | Saturday April 27, 2013

A six-year-old girl was found with her throat slit inside a public toilet in Badarpur in south Delhi yesterday evening. The police are waiting for her medical report to confirm if she was raped.

6-year-old girl allegedly raped, left with slit throat near a public toilet in Delhi

Edited by Shamik Ghosh (with inputs from IANS) | Saturday April 27, 2013

A six-year-old girl was found with her throat slit near a public toilet in the Badarpur area of south Delhi on Friday evening, according to reports. The police say they are awaiting a medical report to confirm if the child was raped.

Cop forgets gun in public toilet

Mid-Day.com | Thursday April 25, 2013

The police bodyguard of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray's personal assistant Milind Narvekar forgot his loaded service revolver in a public toilet yesterday morning.

Woman accused of theft allegedly kills self in police custody

Press Trust of India | Sunday April 7, 2013

A 37-year-old woman arrested in connection with a theft case allegedly committed suicide by drinking a toilet cleaning solution inside a police station in suburban Kandivali on Saturday, police said.

How a toilet break helped Andy Murray win the 2012 US Open!

Agence France-Presse | Sunday March 31, 2013

After squandering a two-set lead against Serbia's Novak Djokovic in the final at Flushing Meadows last year, Murray said a timely toilet break between the fourth and fifth sets enabled him to get his challenge for the trophy back on track.

More slums dwellings with power, phone than toilets: Census data

Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday March 21, 2013

One-third of identified slum households in India do not have toilets, says a report based on the 2011 census but notes that a sizeable percentage of the dwellings have electricity and mobile phone connections and televisions.

Stinking reality: 47% Maharashtra homes are without toilets

Press Trust of India | Tuesday March 19, 2013

A staggering 46.9 per cent households in Maharashtra do not have toilet facility though 69 per cent homes boast of telephone/mobile phones, while 56.8 per cent have television sets in the State.

Delhi engineer found dead in Noida stadium toilet

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday March 13, 2013

A Delhi-based engineer was found hanging in a toilet at a Noida stadium in Sector 21-A on Wednesday , said police.

Children's home running in inhuman conditions raided in Jaipur, 29 girls rescued

Harsha Kumari Singh | Wednesday March 13, 2013

Over 600 empty liquor bottles, rotting vegetables in the store, one broken toilet and just one room. Such are the conditions that the police found 29 poor tribal girls living in when it rescued them in a raid at an illegal child home in Jaipur on Tue...

''It's been 24 days since my daughter was raped in school"

(As told to Janaki Fernandes) | Thursday February 7, 2013

His seven-year-old daughter was raped in a toilet in her school in Goa on January 14. Three weeks later, her father says he will go on a hunger strike because the man who entered the school and assaulted his daughter has yet to be traced. The headmis...

Father of 7-year-old girl raped in Goa school threatens to go on hunger strike

Edited by Ashish Mukherjee | Thursday February 7, 2013

The father of a seven-year-old girl who was raped inside her school toilet in Goa's Vasco town has threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike if the suspect is not arrested in the next seven days.

Mario Balotelli can shake off clown tag in Italy

Associated Press | Thursday January 31, 2013

Balotelli courted attention. Allowing friends to let off fireworks in his house and set fire to the toilet curtains in October 2011 was a gift to newspaper headline writers. Doubly so because this was before City's astounding 6-1 defeat of crossto...