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A Mughal widow: Her in-laws ruled India, but she lives in a slum, earning less than a domestic worker
Married into the royal family that ruled India for three centuries, Sultana Begum lives in penury in a cramped two-room hut ...
A slum with 700 people living on the terrace of a multistorey Calcutta building
Since then, for over seven decades now, the slum on the terrace of Karnani Estate has been home to families whose ancestors ...
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 ...
20 shops gutted in fire at Kolkata slum
Nearly 20 shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Santoshpur Railway Station’s platform number 2 on Sunday, an ...
Kasba water row: KMC cracks whip
Kolkata: A day after allegations reached KMC headquarters that some slum residents in Kasba were suffering from water crisis ...
Sultana, the great-granddaughter of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar reduced to a life of poverty; she is alive and lives here in India
Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lives in a Kolkata slum in stark ...
Indian slums get 'cool roofs' to combat extreme heat
Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India's western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white ...
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India's top court asks Adani to reply to allegations over Dharavi slum project
The long-running legal battle focuses on whether SecLink Technologies was incorrectly excluded from the bidding process when the Indian billionaire won the Dharavi slum project with a $619 million ...
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Indian slums get 'cool roofs' to combat extreme heat
As climate change has made India's summers more extreme, Ahmedabad has suffered temperatures in excess of 46 C (115 F) in recent years. In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city ...