The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in a statement said that Modi will visit the newly-constructed flats for the dwellers of Jhuggi Jhopri (JJ) clusters as part of slum rehabilitation project at ...

MUMBAI: A major slum redevelopment project in Worli will rehouse 3,200 families across 17 acres, featuring residential towers, a mall, and a hotel. MUMBAI: One of Mumbai’s largest slum ...

Bulgaria and Romania rang in the new year with full entry to the European Union’s passport-free Schengen area, promising a fresh boost to their economies. The lifting of controls at land borders ...

Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the Schengen zone, expanding the borderless area to 29 members and ending a 13-year wait for the two Eastern European countries. The expansion ...

Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the European Union’s border-free Schengen area after scrapping land border controls in the bloc. The expansion was officially introduced at ...

Romania, Bulgaria drop EU border checks, join Schengen 01/01/2025 January 1, 2025 Two EU nations, Romania and Bulgaria, are eliminating land border controls to the rest of the bloc after Austria ...

Jan 1 (Reuters) - Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union's Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries ...

In slums the world over, squatters trade safety and health for a few square meters of land and some security of tenure. They are pioneers of swamps, floodplains, volcano slopes, unstable hillsides, ...

Romania and Bulgaria had met the Schengen zone's technical requirements for membership since 2011. But "member states objected every time" they tried to join, analyst Valentin Naumescu told AFP ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. General view of the Bulgarian-Greek border checkpoint of Kulata in Bulgaria, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, after ...

Romania will hold new presidential elections in 2025 after the Constitutional Court annulled the first round of voting. The court's decision came following concerns over foreign interference in an ...