More than 80,000 people in Japan go missing every year. Osaka's Kamagasaki slum is where some people go when they don't want to be found.

The Bombay High Court urged the Slum Rehabilitation Authority to expedite resolutions for slum dwellers' grievances amid rising disputes in Mumbai. | Mumbai news ...

We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 five billion of the world’s population of eight billion will ...

Forget about Utopia or even the dystopian Los Angeles depicted in Blade Runner. The future of the city is a vast Third World slum. This year, the world will pass a milestone so profoundly significant ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the lowest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of slum populations, you can directly go to 5 ...

AROUND 6am, the squealing of copulating rats—signalling a night-long verminous orgy on the rooftops of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai—gives way to the more cheerful sound of chirruping sparrows. Through a ...

The coronavirus outbreak has shined a spotlight on the often overlooked underbelly of India’s “city of dreams” – the slums and other informal settlements where about 49% of its population resides.

Nearly 50,000 JNNURM flats on Delhi outskirts to be renovated for slum dwellers Rs 700 crore unused funds will refurbish flats under PMAY-U scheme Delhi has 675 slum clusters housing 3.06 lakh ...

A scooter accident injuring a nine-year-old girl in Ghaziabad triggered mob violence, with over a dozen people vandalising a ...

Mumbai: In a relief for one of India's oldest industrial houses, the Bombay city civil court has quashed a decades-old govt ...

The residents argue that the compensation fails to reflect the true value of their homes and the disruption to their livelihoods. - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.ke ...