Bustees to get thika land label for avoiding eviction of dwellers: Firhad Hakim
Slums have come up on lands that were owned by zamindars, owners of factories who wanted to settle their workers near the ...
NGO visits slum on roof of Karnani Estate in central Kolkata, extends help to residents
The Telegraph Online had earlier reported on the people living for seven decades on the sixth floor roof of Karnani Estate on ...
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Seeing the new India through the eyes of an invisible woman
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.
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Fire breaks out in Kolkata slum, one dead
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 ...
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Narkeldanga slum fire: FIRs against councillor, goons
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 ...
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Missing Mum engineer found in Kol after 6 yrs
Kolkata: A 73-year-old ex-chemical engineer ... who now lives in a Bandra West slum with her ailing mother. — Sanjib Chakraborty ...
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The inequality of heat
“People were putting up with power cuts and ... which in turn propels hundreds of climate migrants a year to Kolkata’s slums. “The government does not have a vision or climate action plan ...