As per Census 2011, one out of every six city dwellers — that is, 17.4% of the total urban population in India — lives in slums. While union and different state governments have made several efforts ...

Belfast will host Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in August 2026, Belfast City Council confirmed on Saturday, March 8. Established in 1951, the Fleadh takes place in Ireland every August with ...

The Supreme Court has allowed the redevelopment of the Bharat Nagar slum in Bandra East, dismissing appeals from residents who contested its slum status. Despite disputes over the redevelopment ...

The Supreme Court recently observed that once a slum area is declared as 'censused slum' i.e., the slums located on land belonging to government or municipal undertaking, than such slums are ...

This evening and the first half of the night will see showers ease leaving largely clear skies and a few patches of cloud. Thicker cloud will move in from the west in the second half of the night ...

Nominations for the 2025 Belfast Telegraph Business Awards in partnership with Ulster Bank are closing on Friday as the prestigious event marks its silver anniversary. For a quarter of a century ...

Ten Pound Poms creator Danny Brocklehurst explained: “The Skinners are an Irish family who have travelled to Australia for a ...

A Belfast-based IT firm has announced its axing 190 jobs in response to challenging trading conditions which are causing clients to delay making decisions on projects. Kainos plc, the only NI ...

The world's largest festival of Irish music and dance is to take place in Belfast in 2026. Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann - the All-Ireland Fleadh - is held for a week during August and, in the past ...

A Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter equipped with the Martlet missile system The Thales missile factory in Belfast is to supply 5,000 air defence missiles to Ukraine, the prime minister has announced.

The Bombay High Court last month began a first-of-its-kind review of a legislation. The law in question, The Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971, deals with the ...

A Belfast woman charged along with a male co-accused with committing an act outraging public decency passed away last month, a court heard on Wednesday. Gillian Portis, 50, and 37-year old Adrian ...