NGO visits slum on roof of Karnani Estate in central Kolkata, extends help to residents
The Telegraph Online had earlier reported on the people living for seven decades on the sixth floor roof of Karnani Estate on ...
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A Mughal widow: Her in-laws ruled India, but she lives in a slum, earning less than a domestic worker
Married into the royal family that ruled India for three centuries, Sultana Begum lives in penury in a cramped two-room hut ...
Trinamool faction fight dries up taps in Kasba slum, mayor Firhad Hakim intervenes
Now playing, battle for area domination between Sushanta Ghosh and Lipika Manna, councillor for ward 107 which was till 2021 ...
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Fire breaks out in Kolkata slum, one dead
Kolkata, Feb 9 (PTI) One person died in a blaze ... Meanwhile, after Hakim left, a section of the slum dwellers shouted slogans against local councillor Sachin Singh, accusing him of setting ...
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Seeing the new India through the eyes of an invisible woman
I inquired about her shortly before the publication of this story and learned that her slum has been bulldozed to make way for a high-rise residential building. Flats in that part of Kolkata can ...
Kasba water row: KMC cracks whip
Kolkata: A day after allegations reached KMC headquarters that some slum residents in Kasba were suffering from water crisis ...
20 shops gutted in fire at Kolkata slum
Nearly 20 shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Santoshpur Railway Station’s platform number 2 on Sunday, an ...
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Life in the Slums of Calcutta-Some Aspects
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