While the superhero film has opened well in India, members of the Indian film industry and others have expressed dismay about its slum scenes depicting Kolkata. By Nyay Bhushan NEW DELHI – The opening ...

Sandeep Gupta fidgets nervously in a Mumbai clinic while waiting to learn if the white patches and boils that appeared on his elbow a month ago are signs of leprosy - the disease that disfigured his ...

India announced this week an initiative to develop a slum index that will provide a clearer picture of the size and makeup of the country’s informal settlements. The goal, as reported in the online ...

MUMBAI, India (AP) – A new census report says one in six people in Indian cities live in some 100,000 sprawling slums with conditions ‘unfit for human habitation.’ The statistics are India’s first ...

More than half of residents living in Mumbai’s crowded slums may have contracted coronavirus and are likely being infected at a much higher rate than those not living in slum areas, a new study has ...

AHMEDABAD, India -- A 1,640-foot brick wall has been hastily erected in India's Gujarat state ahead of a visit by President Donald Trump, with critics saying it was built to block the view of a slum ...

Kai Ryssdal: Try to wrap your mind around this statistic from the United Nations: Every year, 65 million more people cram into the world’s cities. That’s basically the population of France. Most of ...

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NEW DELHI, India — With its national side languishing at 154th place in FIFA’s rankings, India is unlikely to make an appearance at the World Cup finals any time soon. But there is a team that Indians ...

CHINCHOLI, India (Reuters) - A few years ago, in this sweltering corner of western India, the horizon was dotted with hunched, barefoot women swinging sickles all day to cut wheat for the spring ...

AHMEDABAD, India -- A 1,640-foot brick wall has been hastily erected in India's Gujarat state ahead of a visit by President Donald Trump, with critics saying it was built to block the view of a slum ...