If grinding poverty hurts your sensibilities, Kolkata is not the place to be in. Beyond the glitz of new street lights and fresh paint lies a world of abject poverty where people barely manage to ...

Kolkata, India (CNN) ... But poor people there can at least walk into a mall and grasp what it would take to pay that amount. They could even possibly save enough to buy it one day.

“Poor people who come to these organizations cannot be left behind in the lurch. There are people who take appointments two years before the date and suddenly you are told you cannot be attended to.

A poor Kolkata neighborhood lost power during a heat wave, unlike a nearby luxury mall. ... “People were putting up with power cuts and making adjustments for several days.

There are still a lot of people sleeping on the streets in Kolkata, but there have been great changes in recent years. After decades of concentrating on its base among the rural poor and ...

Kolkata-based Apni Roti feeds over 2,000 people every day in the city and hopes to spread its wings to other areas soon. Think Change India 3647 Stories Monday March 04, 2019 , 3 min Read ...

The horrific rape-murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's busy RG Kar Medical College and Hospital put Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress in a tight corner. One of her key constituents ...

KOLKATA (Reuters) - In India's Kolkata, street workers from second-hand clothes sellers to rickshaw drivers say they rest and sleep where they work, too poor to afford a home of their own. Many of ...

Kolkata, India (CNN) ... But poor people there can at least walk into a mall and grasp what it would take to pay that amount. They could even possibly save enough to buy it one day.