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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Kolkata: A day after allegations reached KMC headquarters that some slum residents in Kasba were suffering from water crisis ...

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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 ...