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

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to create rapport with slum residents and curb crimes in those localities, city police have launched an initiative to organise cricket tournaments between different slums ...

The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to many families for decades The City of ...

In 2012, the slum was razed, ironically for another road-widening project. While a few families were rehabilitated then, the other residents rebuilt their tenements when they were found ineligible ...

said that the civic body expects to earn ₹350 crore in 2025-26 towards property tax from commercial establishments in slums across the city. Roughly 20% of the 250,000 slum tenements in Mumbai ...

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

Slum residents from across Karnataka staged a day-long protest, under the banner of Slum Janandolana Karnataka, at Freedom Park on Monday demanding the establishment of a dedicated department for ...

A Narasimha Murthy from Slum Janandolana Karnataka said that some officials in the department are pro-rich and are against slums and do not move any files. Zameer Ahmed too has done nothing for sl ...