Every year, extreme rainfall during the monsoon season, which begins in June and ends in September, results in approximately ...

Disinfection teams are blasting their machines in India's Mumbai slums. Health teams are working tirelessly, testing children for the coronavirus. But the sense of desperation is palpable in the slums ...

MUMBAI, India (AP) — A new census report says one in six people in Indian cities live in some 100,000 sprawling slums with conditions “unfit for human habitation.” The statistics are India’s first ...

When people hear “slum,” they imagine poverty and despair, but Dharavi, one of the largest slums in the world, tells a ...

New Delhi (CNN) — The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” ...

Statistics can be fairly deceptive. At least, this is suggested by latest estimates released by World Bank, according to which India’s extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Upgrading slums and giving tenancy rights to residents is key to climate change adaptation and disaster mitigation in India's cities, an analyst said, as the ...

Uttar Pradesh Police recently intensified action against foreign nationals found using forged Indian documents. The step also ...

Mumbai, India (CNN) — 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 ...

BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Odisha will give land rights to slum dwellers in small towns and property rights to those living in city settlements in a "historic" step officials ...

MUMBAI, India -- Madonna visited a crowded Mumbai slum Tuesday, where impoverished residents showered her with rose and marigold petals. Madonna didn't speak to journalists, and a New York-based ...