Since then, for over seven decades now, the slum on the terrace of Karnani Estate has been home to families whose ancestors ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful ...

B HOPAL, Jan. 12 -- Viewing slums as a blot on the city's aesthetic, the district administration's plan to rid the state capital of them cannot rely solely on housing rehabilitation, as these ...

effectively turning it into a slum. He said in the 1960 and 1970s, it was a leafy area with the houses serviced by the city council, including collection of garbage. The cleaning and organised ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to create rapport with slum residents and curb crimes in those localities, city police have launched an initiative to organise cricket tournaments between different slums ...

The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to many families for decades The City of ...