Since then, for over seven decades now, the slum on the terrace of Karnani Estate has been home to families whose ancestors ...

Sultana Begum was married to Mirza Mohammad Bedar Bakht, purported to be the great-grandson of India's last Mughal ruler. At ...

A team of Specsavers volunteers recently travelled to Kolkata, in India, to work in aid of The Hope Foundation. The charity ...

Nearly 20 shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Santoshpur Railway Station’s platform number 2 on Sunday, an official said. Three fire engines soon reached the spot, and after a 90-minute ...

Reinforcing its dedication to community development, Canon India marked four years of its adoption of Parivali ...

Mother Teresa returned to Calcutta and found temporary lodging with the Little Sisters of the Poor. On 21 December she went for the first time to the slums. She visited families, washed the sores ...

A woman from West Bengal, along with her husband, was playing with the security of the country. Due to one mistake of hers, ...

The growing percentage of people living in urban areas as compared to rural ones is referred to as urbanization. In ...

In the Oscar-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire, the protagonist, Jamil Malik, born in a Mumbai slum, finds work as a ...

Three people died after a fire broke out in a slum in Delhi's Anand Vihar area on Tuesday, police said. The incident took place at 2:15 am. One gas cylinder also burst in the fire, police said. Fire ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...