Soldiers were deployed to the streets of Lima, Peru, on Tuesday (March 18), a day after Peru's government declared a state of emergency in the capital to help quell a recent surge of violence. Olivia ...

Study shows how long Social Security, $1.5M nest egg would last in 50 states Peru declares an emergency and deploys the army as violence surges in the capital Pepsi will pay $1.7 billion for a ...

Judge demands answers of Trump administration in Venezuela deportation case A U.S. federal judge on Monday pressed the Trump administration to provide details about hundreds of Venezuelans it ...

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 ...

New research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that artisan gold mining in the southern Peruvian Amazon has caused more destruction to carbon-rich peatlands in the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Jailed, former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, attends his trial on charges of rebellion at a police base ...

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 ...

Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India's western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white coating over the last two months to try to keep their occupants cooler as ...

In a world where ambitions are generally contained by reality, there are a few individuals who go against the odds and sculpt their paths. One of them is the story of Kalpana Saroj, a woman who ...