The Bombay High Court on Thursday observed that “illegal occupants of slums hold law-abiding citizens to ransom” and such a situation across the city has “worsened over a period of 30 years as the ...

1,400 families in northwest Delhi's Jailorwala Bagh received keys to new flats, marking a transformative moment in their lives, offering dignity and better living conditions. For around 1,400 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A chance encounter with a priest trying to fund a basketball court at a Catholic school in the Nairobi slum of Korogocho inspired her to raise money for the first class of musicians there.

Hundreds of slum and shanty residents in multiple areas of Kolkata have been rendered homeless in winter following consecutive fires last week. On the night of December 21, a massive blaze reduced ...

Nargis Dutt Nagar, Bandra's largest slum, is slated for a massive redevelopment project worth Rs 10,000 crore. Omkar will rehabilitate over 1,500 families while Godrej Properties will develop ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Young dancers perform, during a Christmas ballet event in Kibera slum, one of the busiest neighborhoods of ...

The answer for many, sadly, is this one: slums. According to the United Nations, a slum is an area of a city mostly characterized by substandard housing and squalor. Right now, more than a billion ...