Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has opened up 26 slum pockets across the city for redevelopment by inviting expressions of interest from developers. The 26 pockets include some ...

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court (HC) on Tuesday held that slum dwellers cannot be denied basic sanitation facilities and directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to provide and maintain ...

An Indian teacher and activist known for creating hundreds of learning centres and painting educational murals across the walls of slums won the US$1 million Global Teacher Prize on Thursday. Rouble ...

The Supreme Court is scrutinizing a Bombay High Court ruling that green-lights slum rehabilitation on land designated for parks and recreational areas. Critics contend that this encroachment ...

Pakistan’s largest slum is home to millions living in extreme density and scarcity. Infrastructure struggles to keep up with the population. Homes, businesses, and daily routines are tightly packed ...

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday (January 26, 2026) inaugurated infrastructure projects worth approximately ₹327 crore for the welfare of slum dwellers. Addressing an event at her camp office, ...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced a large-scale distribution of houses to integrate slum dwellers into the mainstream. The government is dedicating over 42,000 houses under the Pradhan ...

India to start first nationwide urban slum survey since 2012 in July 2027 Survey will assess slum conditions and estimate population across cities Updated data aims to improve targeting of government ...

Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen roar through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks built on stilts above the lagoon in the ...

How do slums mushroom? In Bengaluru, this question is usually asked only after bulldozers arrive — once homes are razed, livelihoods disrupted, and families pushed out overnight. On December 20, the ...

This video takes you inside Venezuela’s largest slum, an area rarely seen up close. Daily life continues here under difficult and dangerous conditions. As we moved through the neighborhood, the ...

Norman Podhoretz’s friends—there were no dissenting voices among them—warned him not to publish Making It. Lionel Trilling, the high priest of the New York intellectuals, told Podhoretz that his ...