A new website that records the lives and evictions of slum dwellers in the Indian city of Delhi will help address the chronic ...

As the coronavirus kept virtually everyone at home, Talat Jahan was busily crisscrossing the slums in her black-and-yellow ...

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 ...

Until recently, Vikas Gawali lived in a one-room shack with his wife, two daughters, his mother, his older brother and sister-in-law, their children, and another brother—12 people in a single room.

Last month, researchers in one of India’s largest cities made a surprising discovery. Of the nearly 7,000 blood samples taken from people in Mumbai’s slums, 57% tested positive for coronavirus ...

In Gurugram, an upscale suburb just outside Delhi, gleaming SUVs, futuristic skyscrapers and neat apartments stand in stark contrast to nearby mosquito swarms, trash heaps and tarpaulin shanties.

Mumbai's BMC has identified nearly 8,000 commercial units operating within slum areas, generating approximately Rs 21 crore ...

A photo exhibit and lecture series about the slums of Janta Colony, in Chandigarh, India, is open at the University of Washington through June 22. “On the Case” by Canadian photojournalist Marilyn ...

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 ...

Madonna visited a crowded Mumbai slum Tuesday, where impoverished residents showered her with rose and marigold petals.Madonna didn’t speak to journalists, and a New York-based spokeswoman for the ...