Hazeena looked pale and hungry when she came to a kindergarten managed by Catholic nuns in a southern Indian state. A few months earlier, the 7-year-old girl was seen helping her parents in the ...

BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Once known as Temple City for its ancient Hindu temples, Bhubaneswar in the eastern Indian state of Odisha aims to reposition itself as a hub ...

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.

Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one-storey home crammed into a tangle of alleys - Copyright ENGINEER JEROME MARTINEZ/AFP Handout Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one ...

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In a major policy shift aimed at accelerating Mumbai's transformation into a slum-free city, the Maharashtra government has ...

Gurgaon: A team of HSVP officials faced stiff resistance when it arrived in Sector 12A to remove illegal slums on Old Delhi-Gurgaon Road around 11am on Wednesday.Congress functionaries Pankaj Dabar ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — "Oh, I got something better than the Taj Mahal. I've got a toilet school in the slums of Delhi." Those are the words Tim Philpot recalled hearing his best friend and tour guide say ...

AHMEDABAD, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hansaben Rasid knows what it is like to live without a water tap or a toilet of her own, constantly fearful of being evicted by city officials keen on ...

As part of Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations have set targets of upgrading slums and reducing poverty in all its dimensions by 2030. Policies towards improving the living conditions of ...

“All slum redevelopment is quite fraught,” Kamath said. But Dharavi had unique challenges due to the size of its population, the importance of its economy, and the value of the land — surrounded by ...