Several of the demolished structures were not temporary huts but permanent two- and three-storey buildings. The state ...

Korail does not fit neatly into Dhaka’s urban picture, but maybe that is what makes it what it is — a place constantly creating, rebuilding, and living on its own terms ...

Abstract: Slums (Informal Settlements) are the most dynamic areas whose geographical locations are inaccurate according to official statistics and maps because of the exponential expansion of ...

Illegally placed electrical wires that are sometimes poorly insulated, plus the dumping of fuel in storm drains, spell ...

The United States Embassy as well as the United Nations Human Rights Office issued warnings and statements about a police ...

Hundreds of heavily armed Brazilian police raided slum areas of Rio in a drug raid Tuesday, touching off firefights likened ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

The Bombay High Court has quashed the acquisition of private land under the Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971, holding that the authorities acted without ...

Mumbai, Oct 20 (UNI) One person died and three others sustained burns after a fire swept through a slum area at Machhimar Nagar, Cuffe Parade of south Mumbai early today. The fire was doused in an ...

The ninth edition of Ayodhya Deepotsav promises to usher in a new era of community celebration in the city with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announcing to celebrate the festival with families in ...

The Bombay High Court on Thursday imposed a cost of Rs 5 lakh on a woman for suppressing facts and producing fraudulent documents in a slum rehabilitation dispute, directing her to deposit the amount ...

A peon, Datta Kamble, was apprehended in Nagpur for a Rs 2.1 crore heist at a cooperative society in Tuljapur. Police, aided by 22 sex workers Kamble frequented, tracked him to a slum area. He ...