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 ...

The AAP claimed that the BJP will “demolish all slums in Delhi” if it is voted to power in the Capital. With three weeks to go for the Delhi assembly elections, the battle to win over ...

At the same time, affordable housing and other fair resolutions to Karachi's housing problems are not on the government's agenda, meaning slums will continue to pop up. The provincial government ...

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.

Persecuted and unable to change anything, we were unwelcome in Russia. Then Mexican and U.S. policies brought more trouble.

From above, the Oko-Agbon neighbourhood, in the infamous Makoko floating slum, looks almost picturesque. Little wooden shacks on stilts sit on top of dark water. Residents move from one to another ...

Their support was almost seen as a given. But recent developments have shown that Delhi's slum voters are no longer easily swayed. In fact, AAP has emerged as a dominant force in this demographic ...

DELHI ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2025: Amidst heated campaigning for the upcoming Delhi polls on February 5, all three parties – AAP, BJP and Congress – are vying for a share of the sizable vote from the city ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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