BRAZILIAN police have been accused of decapitating a teenage gangster and hanging his head from a tree like a trophy in a ...

Stuart Daniels has experienced bouts of homelessness for roughly two decades, which has seen him forced to stay at properties ...

The Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) of Mumbai plans to map every slum structure by December 2025, employing digital innovations like blockchain and automated data collation to enhance transparency ...

hey call the slums villas miserias, or little cities of misery. Instead of names, most have been assigned numbers by the Argentine government. Father Carlos Olivero lives in a small concrete church in ...

We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 five billion of the world’s population of eight billion will ...

SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...

BMC demolished 42 slum structures in Andheri to build a key bridge, easing traffic but leaving many families homeless amid ...

Mumbai: The BMC’s K West ward team, in coordination with the Mumbai Suburban Collector’s office, carried out a major ...

A Whitefield, known as the city’s tech corridor, is grappling with a crisis caused by the unchecked mushrooming of illegal layouts and unregulated buildings. Rows of poorly planned structures, narrow ...

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents ...

Residents can trade discarded plastic for "green points", or credits, they can redeem for services such as drinking water, toilets, showers, laundry and even meals.