It is named after a massive nearby rubbish dump, but people are queuing up to move into Abuja's Big Bola slum as rents ...
Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) is launching a comprehensive drive to clean slum areas, ensuring 100% door-to-door waste collection and drai ...
Flimsy shacks of tin and ply have given way to sleek, painted newbuilds - small, clean and leak-free - in Bangkok's biggest ...
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Covid-19 and the slum paradox

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Kolkata: Close to 1,000 dwellers of 220 families of Jhoro Bustee, a slum off Golf Club Road, have moved to the KMDA-built ...
Mumbai: In a major demolition drive jointly carried out by the Mumbai Suburban Collector’s office and the Brihanmumbai ...
The shadow justice secretary complained ‘of not seeing another white face’ in Handsworth, which was based on a 90-minute ...
Mumbai: In a joint operation led by the Collector Office with assistance from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), a total of 135 unauthorised slum structures were demolished on government ...
A Whitefield, known as the city’s tech corridor, is grappling with a crisis caused by the unchecked mushrooming of illegal ...
Two fishermen welfare societies challenge a court order declaring their fish-drying land a slum, risking their livelihood and ...
Hundreds of heavily armed Brazilian police raided slum areas of Rio in a drug raid today, touching off firefights likened to ...
The Norwegian slum existed during America's Prohibition era, which lasted from 1920 to 1933. In the absence of legal liquor, ...