Residents of the Ecuadorean town of Viche said on Saturday (March 15) they were concerned an oil spill in a river would affect their health and crops. Protesters assemble for mass demonstration ...

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 ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WFXG) - The number of apartment complexes is growing in the city, and some Augusta leaders believe it reached its limit. At Tuesday’s meeting, they discussed a potential freeze on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Residents up in arms as civic body declares Christian Gaon a ‘slum’, and its denizens as ‘slum-dwellers’, telling them to participate in a biometric survey Christian Gaon in Kurla West on ...

Murders have dropped significantly in Brazil in recent years. But the entrenched presence of gangs in urban slums and rural outposts along with surging street crime, such as the theft of smartphones, ...

The Supreme Court of India ruled against a stay on the Dharavi redevelopment project awarded to the Adani Group, despite a challenge by Seclink Technologies Corp. The court requested Seclink's ...