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

After the demise of Sultana's husband, Prince Mirza Bedar Bukht, in the 1980s, she has struggled to survive and support her ...

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

Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lives in a Kolkata slum in stark ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Delhi Minister Parvesh Verma on Saturday performed havan on the occasion of the birth anniversary of his late father and former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma. Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta ...