When Ranjita Mondal talks about her journey from a one-room tin shack in the slum bordering the canal in Birati, near Calcutta’s Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, to running a hotel in ...

Gour Das’s wound is well on its way to healing and he is seen hobbling around the neighbourhood, where for months he could barely stir. He is provided rice and pulses so as to not be dependent o...

The Naveen Patnaik government on Friday decided to provide land to 2.4 lakh slum households, benefiting around 9.7 lakh people across five municipal corporations of the state.  The state governm...

IIT (ISM), Dhanbad’s newly established innovation hub, Atal Community Innovation Centre (ACIC) has taken an initiative to provide monetary support and training to slum women in the handicrafts s...

Parents of children living in slums are being counselled by a city NGO so that their girls and boys continue with their studies and do not give up midway. The counselling also includes an effort to m...

A profit of Rs 3.5 lakh, that too amid the pandemic. A group of women from a Calcutta slum has done it. Mentored by an NGO, 20 women — most of whose income or family’s earnings dried up ...

A major fire broke out in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Noida on Sunday, leaving two children dead  and destroying around 150 shanties, police said. Both the kids were three years old and th...

Only half of urban slum households surveyed in six states exclusively use liquid petroleum gas for cooking despite 86 per cent of these families having LPG connections, a study has found. Researchers...

Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC)’s attempt to hold talks with residents of 26 slums at Jagannathpur in Dhurwa, majority of whom are against the Centre’s ambitious light house project com...

Over 300 residents of Dhatkidih Medical Bustee on Sunday afternoon blocked the road in front of Bistupur Police Station, demanding the arrest of July Ghosh who was murdered on January 3 in the area. ...