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A terrible mix of unemployment, poverty, crime, and the climate crisis is making life unbearable for those living in the ...

Two fishermen welfare societies challenge a court order declaring their fish-drying land a slum, risking their livelihood and ...

hey call the slums villas miserias, or little cities of misery. Instead of names, most have been assigned numbers by the Argentine government. Father Carlos Olivero lives in a small concrete church in ...

SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday (14 October) announced that the city will witness a surge in ...

Eight people were injured as a fire broke out at a slum in south Kolkata's Beltala area on Monday afternoon, officials said. A fire engine managed to put off the flames in an hour, they said. The ...