By Amit Dave, Gloria Dickie and Shilpa Jamkhandikar AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India's western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white ...

A global scientific trial in Ahmedabad is testing "cool roofs" by painting 400 slum homes with reflective white paint to ...

It’s like I’m living in the Victorian slums era. I have to double pay ... surveyors were sent to the property to examine the condition of the home – however no work was ever carried ...

A new chapter has begun in the lives of 91 slum dwellers from Mahatma Phule Nagar as they have received their rightful ...

Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday handed over the keys of new homes to 91 slum dwellers displaced by a road project in Borivali West in North Mumbai. Speaking at the event, the Commerce and ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...

This is not the first time they have found themselves in this predicament. In 2012, the slum was razed, ironically for another road-widening project. While a few families were rehabilitated then, the ...