There is one toilet block for the hundreds of people — at the back of the terrace ... rename – decided to replace the word bustee that is slums with the Bengali word Uttaran (uplift). While the ...

The Telegraph Online had earlier reported on the people living for seven decades on the sixth floor roof of Karnani Estate on ...

Kolkata, India (CNN ... What I took away from that book was a realization that poor people in slums such as Amina's are not necessarily jostling to become India's next billionaire.

Kolkata, Feb 9 (PTI) One person died in a blaze ... The fire left around 200 people homeless, officials said. The charred body of Habibullah Mollah (65) was recovered from a godown adjacent ...

Kolkata: A day after tensions flared up at Narkeldanga ... Back at the site, more than two days after the fire at the slum on Canal (West) Road, the beleaguered families struggled to begin life ...

A team of Specsavers volunteers recently travelled to Kolkata, in India, to work in aid of The Hope Foundation. The charity works with street-dwelling and slum-connected children in Kolkata, providing ...