Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India's western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white ...

Both in real life and in many video game stories, large cities have slum districts where the downtrodden, disenfranchised, and generally down-on-their-luck live. These districts can range from ...

With large army helicopters thudding overhead, soldiers and police began climbing the slum's winding roads just after 4 a.m. and declared the operation a success within two hours after ...

in tiresome and protracted negotiations for slum clearance with officers of large fiduciaries. After months of work and argument, projects have been developed which have collapsed either because ...

India's Supreme Court on Friday asked billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate to respond to allegations of unfairly winning a ...

However, it was the scale of destruction in World War 2 - when 4 million homes were destroyed in the UK - that paved the way for large-scale slum clearances. All UK cities had slum areas.

In the slums, alcohol and sex are cheaper than food and the effects on children find their way to neighbouring schools. For more than 25 years teaching in the heart of Kibera, a large slum ...

The Supreme Court has allowed the redevelopment of the Bharat Nagar slum in Bandra East, dismissing appeals from residents ...