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

Slums have come up on lands that were owned by zamindars, owners of factories who wanted to settle their workers near the ...

Married into the royal family that ruled India for three centuries, Sultana Begum lives in penury in a cramped two-room hut ...

Kolkata, India (CNN) — Not far from the place I once ... life's cadences remain much the same for people like my friend Amina. She lives in a slum in the shadow of Quest. She is part of a ...

Kolkata: In a bid to protect slum-dwellers from land sharks desperately trying to grab slum land for real estate projects, KMC will strive to bring th.

Kolkata, Feb 9 (PTI) One person died in a blaze ... Meanwhile, after Hakim left, a section of the slum dwellers shouted slogans against local councillor Sachin Singh, accusing him of setting ...

Kolkata: A fire that broke out twice at a slum on Padmapukur Lane in Ballygunge has prompted a police investigation amid ...

Slums proliferated. “What you see in India is that there is an inbuilt inequality at all levels,” said Ashish Avikunthak, a University of Rhode Island professor who grew up in Kolkata.

As climate change 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 Narol area of the city ...