MUMBAI – In Dharavi, India’s biggest slum, childcare centre worker Shobha Pravin Patil dreams of a kitchen with a refrigerator, clean water at the turn of a tap, a dining table for sit-down ...

Fifty years later, that swampy area — once a fishing village and rubbish dump — is now Dharavi, one of Asia’s biggest slums and a bustling hub of industry in India’s financial capital.

Dharavi’s unique advantage is that it squats, 620 acres of swamp, sewer and slums, right in the heart of Mumbai ...

Once dubbed as the biggest slum of the Asia, Orangi Town is no more a katchi abadi, said CM's Advisor on Human Settlement Najmi Alam on the floor of Sindh Assembly on Friday."Orangi Town is no longer ...

I grew up in Kenya’s Kibera slum, the largest urban slum in Africa, and experienced extreme poverty firsthand. I was a street child, constantly scraping by for food and water, and lacking basic ...

A government official wants communities in informal settlements to implement basic fire safety measures as part of efforts to contain tragedies linked to outbreaks. This follows separate fire ...

In fact, Acuzar said, the Philippines may already have the largest slum area in the world given the lack of affordable housing in the country. “The moment na nagkaka-problema sa housing ...

Chandigarh: Hundreds were left homeless after the largest slum in the city, Janta Colony, Sector 25, was demolished here on Tuesday. Since the day the estate office pasted the notice of eviction ...