The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which has begun surveying commercial slums, is considering recovering property tax from floors in slums where commercial activities are being carried out.

Victims lose their families, their friends and their future. In Kazakhstan, activists, lawyers and politicians are drafting new laws to fight an old and destructive ...

Authorities in Kazakhstan have told the foreign operators of the country's third largest oilfield that they must take the final investment decision on a gas processing facility at the site amid ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday refuted claims the Aam Aadmi Party's claims of slums being demolished in Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday refuted claims the Aam Aadmi Party's ...

Bicycles are the wheels for the planet, say cycling enthusiasts "Go to the slums, find out what in what condition people are staying. States do not have money to provide affordable housing and we ...

The small Hanuman temple in Delhi’s Kusumpur Pahadi slum comes alive on Tuesday afternoons, when residents trickle into the temple courtyard along with members of a local non-profit organisation.

Seeking to dislodge the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party has made a sweeping promise to slum dwellers in the capital: “Jahan jhuggi, wahan makaan” – a house ...

Machhar Colony — also known as Muhammadi Colony — is believed to be the oldest and the largest slum area of the metropolitan city. Primarily home to Bengali community, the slum, which is ...

Colombo, Feb 07 (Daily Mirror) - A Kazakhstan national died, while four Russian nationals were rescued after separate drowning incidents in the Southern Province yesterday. The victim, a ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians will mark this year the 77th anniversary of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel, an event that is at the core of their national struggle. But in many ways ...

A proposal to build a fourplex with several bylaw exemptions was rejected by the city on Thursday night following a wave of objections from neighbours in the affluent Kingsway South neighbourhood ...

The civic body announced assessment of commercial units in slum area as its new source of income. The budget document states that there are around 2.50 lakh slums in Mumbai. A significant number ...