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 ...

A slum colony that could rival the scale of clusters of shanties in Bandra East is quietly mushrooming on railway premises under the nose of Western Railway (WR). The abandoned fifth and sixth ...

Sain worked as the ‘India link’ for Chinese syndicates running scam farms in Cambodia. He made frequent trips to Cambodia, scheduling interviews for new recruits and making sure they got hired as ...

Canada’s bilateral relationship with Cambodia has spanned many decades, dating to the Indochina conflict, when Canada participated in the International Control Commission established in 1953. Canada ...

Hundreds of roofs in Gujarat's informal settlements have been coated with reflective white paint to combat extreme summer temperatures. The project, involving 400 households in Ahmedabad, aims to ...

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 ...

Her father, a constable, found it difficult to support the family amidst financial struggles and social bias. She was married off at the tender age of 12 and sent to stay with her husband's family in ...

Residents up in arms as civic body declares Christian Gaon a ‘slum’, and its denizens as ‘slum-dwellers’, telling them to participate in a biometric survey Christian Gaon in Kurla West on ...

The Supreme Court of India ruled against a stay on the Dharavi redevelopment project awarded to the Adani Group, despite a challenge by Seclink Technologies Corp. The court requested Seclink's ...

This is a photo from Cambodian authorities of Rugh James Cline, a University of Miami Law School graduate who traveled from Tampa to Cambodia and was arrested and convicted there. (Cambodian autho ...

It is heartening to know that India’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by some Dalit Catholics from Kumbakonam diocese in Tamil Nadu state in southern India. On the other hand, it is ...

It’s a cold wintry January day as an autorickshaw takes me from Delhi’s Uttam Nagar West Metro station past muddy roads into the narrow bylanes of West Delhi’s slums, home to migrant ...