However, the truth is that there are two Mumbais: one where dreams come true amid the glitz, glamour and red carpets, and the ...

By Amit Dave, Gloria Dickie and Shilpa Jamkhandikar AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of ...

Mumbai: Mhada has submitted plans for the redevelopment of three slums on its land in partnership with the Slum ...

Since then, for over seven decades now, the slum on the terrace of Karnani Estate has been home to families whose ancestors ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Friday asked billionaire ... said construction work had already started and 2,000 people were already employed. The 240 hectare (594 acre) slum, featured ...

Sleeping among overflowing sewer drains and noisy railway tracks, studying English by the light of their mobile phones, three ...

Early results from the Burkina Faso trial, Bunker said, show that cool roofs reduced indoor temperature by between 1.2 degrees in tin- and mud-roofed homes, and 1.7 degrees in tin-roofed homes over ...

Multiple cooking gas cylinders in a truck caught fire and exploded on Monday in Mumbai's biggest slum of Dharavi, where hundreds of thousands live in crowded, squalid conditions, local authorities ...

"Traditionally, home is where people ... has made India's summers more extreme, Ahmedabad has suffered temperatures in excess of 46 C (115 F) in recent years. In the Vanzara Vas slum in the ...