The Windham-Campbell Prize is administered by Yale University and annually recognises eight writers across fiction, ...

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 ...

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has come out in defence of Trinidad and Tobago’s sovereignty following the recent threat of US visa restrictions announced by President ...

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 ...

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 ...

We must now build on this by working for meaningful change. For example, although Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language was used as one of the conference languages, it is not yet formally recognised ...

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 ...