In the impoverished Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa 21-24, 68-year-old painter Heriberto Ayala still remembers how Pope ...

After mid-day wrote about the development of a slum colony on railway land near Bandra Terminus, Western Railway (WR) swung into action on Tuesday. The shanties have been dismantled, with most of ...

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 ...

They have to move out. 3. It only moves the slums to the outskirts. The residents will be given alternative housing in the outskirts and distant, low-value areas. There, the alternative housing ...

As climate change has made India's summers more extreme, Ahmedabad has suffered temperatures in excess of 46 C (115 F) in recent years. In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has ...

Hundreds of roofs in Gujarat's informal settlements have been coated with reflective white paint to combat extreme summer temperatures. The project, involving 400 households in Ahmedabad, aims to ...

Electric Vehicles (EV) adoption continues to grow in Malaysia with a 110% year-on-year growth in February 2025. According to the latest vehicle registration data by Malaysia’s Road Transport ...

Her father, a constable, found it difficult to support the family amidst financial struggles and social bias. She was married off at the tender age of 12 and sent to stay with her husband's family in ...

Residents up in arms as civic body declares Christian Gaon a ‘slum’, and its denizens as ‘slum-dwellers’, telling them to participate in a biometric survey Christian Gaon in Kurla West on ...

He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “I live in squalor. It’s like I’m living in the Victorian slums era. I have to double pay – I pay for the rent, and then I’m paying for the hotel, ...

The Supreme Court of India ruled against a stay on the Dharavi redevelopment project awarded to the Adani Group, despite a challenge by Seclink Technologies Corp. The court requested Seclink's ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Friday asked billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate to respond to allegations of unfairly winning a bid to redevelop one of Asia's largest slums in ...