The Telegraph Online had earlier reported on the people living for seven decades on the sixth floor roof of Karnani Estate on ...

We want a different life for them,” says her neighbour Uma Swamy. In October 2023, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee – also known for a tendency to rename – decided to replace the word bustee that ...

Howrah: Nearly 40 hours on, around 4 lakh Howrah residents across 23 wards continued to experience severe water shortage with ...

Nearly 20 shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Santoshpur Railway Station’s platform number 2 on Sunday, an ...

After the demise of Sultana's husband, Prince Mirza Bedar Bukht, in the 1980s, she has struggled to survive and support her ...

Married into the royal family that ruled India for three centuries, Sultana Begum lives in penury in a cramped two-room hut ...

Prayagraj: Around 150 slum kids are set to learn more about science concepts like gravity, friction, and force, after a group of students, under the b.

Aims: To conduct a prospective, community based study in an impoverished urban site in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in order to measure the burden of cholera, describe its epidemiology, and search for ...

With emphasis on women-centric projects, the city’s slum areas are slated for an infrastructural development in the next fiscal. The bustee department of Kolkata Municipal Corporation is headed ...