Hira Bibi, a 47-year-old rag picker and former child bride from a Bhubaneswar slum, has become a local hero by preventing six ...

In the congested pockets of Delhi's working-class neighbourhoods — from Old Seemapuri to Okhla's Batla House — conversations ...

Walk through, and the city morphs. Lanes shrink. Dharavi, once branded a slum, now gleams on real estate flyers. But inside its labyrinth, where the city keeps its secrets and its sewage, no one ...

Urban slums in Dhaka continue to reflect the stark reality of food insecurity and malnutrition faced by the city’s ...

Residents at this slum, mostly poor migrants from Bengal who work as daily wage earners, domestic workers and ragpickers, are ...

More than half of all households in Bangladesh's urban slums face food insecurity, and nearly half of children are stunted.

Education is a distant dream for children in Makoko, an urban slum in Lagos State. Heavy rains and rising floodwaters have ...

While the official reason is encroachment on disputed land — a case the court is hearing — the residents believe they are ...

A series of judgements by the Delhi High Court have curbed the safeguards offered to slum residents from demolitions by ...

Slum dwellers of Jai Hind Camp in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area, home to Bengali-speaking migrants from West Bengal’s Cooch Behar, ...

A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still ...

The Varitra Foundation concluded the second phase of its summer camp, organised during the school summer holidays across seven locations in the district. The initiative, conducted in two phases ...