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The census 2011 based information on basic amenities offers an opportunity to assess India’s progress towards access to toilet facility, the first step to end the open defecation, with a decade long Total Sanitation Campaign underway. Evaluating the data of census 2001 and 2011, it turns out that progress in this sphere is slow and non-inclusive. It entirely excludes poorest states with high incidence of toilet deprivation. Progress towards this in India offers a case where the fraction of households without toilet facility decreased along with an increase in its number.

An effort to repair decades’ worth of infrastructure deterioration in the subway system has increased commutes for some, but others have sought to profit from the chaos.

Extracting the stuff is a $70 billion industry, but it can inflict terrible costs on the environment.

With the state’s roads and bridges crumbling and its mass transit plagued with problems, an idea once considered politically unthinkable is gaining traction: increasing the famously low gas tax.