A fire that hit a poor Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia killed five people, four of them children, officials said on Thursday. The town hall in Velky Saris said the blaze destroyed eight houses ...

Screenshot from video documentary 'THE OTHER SIDE OF PHUKET THAILAND' shows the cafeteria of a school in the crowded foreign community. PHUKET — Officials have announced the results of their ...

Ashok Talpatra’s journey from a slum to becoming a Staff Software Engineer at Google in Zurich highlights the transformative power of education and opportunities provided by IITs. Investor Aviral ...

Some of the most affected estates are Kariobangi, Korogocho, Kariadudu, Mukuru slums, Kawangware, Kangemi, Huruma, Soweto and parts of Kayole. "I'm sounding a warning to all criminal gangs out ...

The director of a Catholic-operated school in Phuket has contested the description of a Myanmar community in the province as a “slum” by a foreign YouTuber. A video on the YouTube channel Ride with ...

The name became symbolic of slums where poor Irish immigrants lived in ramshackle shanties, squatting on property they didn’t own. In an era when the Irish faced widespread prejudice, ...

I’m the head of CFK Africa, a nongovernmental organization that empowers youth and fights extreme poverty in Kenyan slums. The sudden dismantling of USAID means lives are being disrupted ...

The Supreme Court recently observed that once a slum area is declared as 'censused slum' i.e., the slums located on land belonging to government or municipal undertaking, than such slums are ...

Nearly 20 shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Santoshpur Railway Station’s platform number 2 on Sunday, an official said. Three fire engines soon reached the spot, and after a 90-minute ...

New Delhi: Delhi High Court has said a survey may be needed of residents of a slum in the Okhla area facing demolition action by DDA. Refusing to stay the demolition process, HC on Friday ...

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 ...