A new website that records the lives and evictions of slum dwellers in the Indian city of Delhi will help address the chronic ...
Each summer, the thousand or so families living in a floodplain informal settlement on the edge of Kathmandu brace themselves for flash flooding as monsoon rains pour in.
New Delhi (CNN) — The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” ...
Amidst rapid urbanisation, as our mega cities burst at the seams, facing immense pressure on housing, infrastructure and ...
An Australian content creator was slammed on social media after he documented his 3-day stay in Mumbai's Dharavi and called it "India's deadliest slum" in an Instagram video. The vlogger, Pete Z, ...
Mumbai, India (CNN) — When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all ...
Hazeena looked pale and hungry when she came to a kindergarten managed by Catholic nuns in a southern Indian state. A few months earlier, the 7-year-old girl was seen helping her parents in the ...
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Covid-19 and the slum paradox

CoV-2, the causative agent of Covid-19 was first declared as a pandemic in 2019. Since then, its devastating consequences ...