The re-settlement site in Perumbakkam is the newest of three colonies built by Tamil Nadu state in India to house slum dwellers. More than 52,000 families have been relocated to sites on the outskirts ...

BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Once known as Temple City for its ancient Hindu temples, Bhubaneswar in the eastern Indian state of Odisha aims to reposition itself as a hub ...

The power of the stage to heal is a popular cliché. Undeterred by abject poverty, troubled childhoods and the hardships of slum life, some talented musical prodigies from Indian slums have not only ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Upgrading slums and giving tenancy rights to residents is key to climate change adaptation and disaster mitigation in India's cities, an analyst said, as the ...

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CNN — New Delhi (CNN) — The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so ...

MUMBAI, India (AP) — A new census report says one in six people in Indian cities live in some 100,000 sprawling slums with conditions “unfit for human habitation.” The statistics are India’s first ...

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.

Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of Gujarat have been painted in a reflective, white coating over the last two months to try to keep their occupants cooler as the hottest time of year ...