Larzy Varghese has been a guiding light for underprivileged children for almost three decades, transforming their lives ...

The Supreme Court recently observed that once a slum area is declared as 'censused slum' i.e., the slums located on land belonging to government or municipal undertaking, than such slums are ...

A slum colony that could rival the scale of clusters of shanties in Bandra East is quietly mushrooming on railway premises under the nose of Western Railway (WR). The abandoned fifth and sixth ...

A Kenyan family is reeling from a double tragedy after losing two children in less than a year Sheila Jeptum, who died in a road accident in Australia last year, has now been followed in death by her ...

Hundreds of roofs in Gujarat's informal settlements have been coated with reflective white paint to combat extreme summer temperatures. The project, involving 400 households in Ahmedabad, aims to ...

Nearly 20 shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Santoshpur Railway Station’s platform number 2 on Sunday, an official said. Three fire engines soon reached the spot, and after a 90-minute ...

New Delhi: Delhi High Court has said a survey may be needed of residents of a slum in the Okhla area facing demolition action by DDA. Refusing to stay the demolition process, HC on Friday ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...

She was married off at the tender age of 12 and sent to stay with her husband's family in a Mumbai slum. What was supposed to be a new beginning soon became a living hell of physical and emotional ...

Sachs answered: ”Let me just report one aspect about Finlandization. Finlandization landed Finland number one in the World Happiness Report year after year. Finland is rich, successful, happy, and ...

The high court had cleared the decks for redevelopment of the slums in Dharavi and upheld the tender awarded to the Adani Group for the project, ruling there was no "arbitrariness ...

Finland’s connections to Europe could be given a boost thanks to a new fixed link across the Baltic Sea between the country and neighbours Sweden and Estonia. A new report published by the ...