Dharavi's redevelopment plan projects a population of 4.9 lakh post-implementation, aiming to decongest the area. The plan ...

Leaders and residents gathered at Jantar Mantar to demand dignified rehabilitation before demolitions in Delhi slums. They criticized post-election demolition surges without proper surveys or ...

Despite global efforts to improve housing and reduce urban poverty, slums remain a defining feature of many fast-growing ...

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 ...

The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and ...

BENGALURU: Dharavi is known as Asia’s biggest slum, its swathe of tightly packed hutments with blue tarpaulin roofs unmissable to anyone who flies over Mumbai. But to residents like Anita ...

This used to be the biggest urban slum in Nigeria, with no facility, nothing and I decided that when God makes me governor, Okpoko will be my first port of call, which was why on my inauguration ...

In a first for any slum rehabilitation project in India, the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) has embraced cutting-edge technologies to survey and document Asia's largest slum, officials said.

The renowned potter doesn't live in a posh neighborhood, but in Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, which has one million residents and a population density of extreme proportions − 354,167 ...

Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire disaster but blazes in Manila slums are often sparked by faulty electrical wiring or gas canisters. Isla Puting Bato sits in the district of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mohammad Shakib lives in two cramped rooms in the rubbish-strewn Mumbai slum of Dharavi along with his wife ...