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. ...

The teachers are visiting around 12 slums in areas like Girish Park, Mechua, Nimtala, Tallah Park and Bagbazar. To maintain physical distance, each seat in the bus doubles as a study desk for one chi...

A housing scheme with 640 flats, planned by the Chas Municipal Corporation, is having no takers even after the apartments are on sale for Rs 3.11 lakhs only. With only a handful of people showing inte...

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