A new website that records the lives and evictions of slum dwellers in the Indian city of Delhi will help address the chronic ...

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,” said 56-year-old ...

ISpiice a non-profit organization is promoting education and sustainable development in slums of India DHARAMSALA, HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA, November 25, 2023 ...

As the people living in a densely populated slum here begin their morning chores, drawing water for their animals and sweeping out the dust that has settled overnight, hundreds of student volunteers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I'm very happy (with) myself that before I used to stay in a hut, but now I have (a) nice house for myself, and now I will take a very big house for my family on rent." “Now I'm in 10th standard. So, ...

Is he a slumdog millionaire? An Australian influencer has been accused of engaging in “poverty tourism” after filming himself “surviving” in an Indian slum, as seen in a viral Instagram video. “I ...

When you close your eyes and think of India, what do you see? For far too many Western tourists, the image is unfairly limited to crowded trains, chaotic markets, slums, and the cliched “eat-pray-poop ...