With rural-to-urban migration increasing each year, cities are becoming overcrowded, and slums are expanding due to the lack of affordable housing. Many urban dwellers are forced to live in informal ...

New Delhi: A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death in New Delhi area by his friend, a Swiggy delivery worker, who was trying ...

IMAGE: The Dharavi slum in Mumbai. Photograph: ANI Photo A bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar sought responses from the Maharashtra government and Adani Properties Pvt ...

A fire broke out at a jhut warehouse in Savar's Ashulia this afternoon (7 March). The blaze originated in a tin shed jhut warehouse owned by Md Sharif, located in the Pobnartek area of Ashulia's ...

The flats, as they stand now, aren’t safe for habitation, lack amenities & are in far-flung areas. With less than 10% being allotted, it’s now being suggested they be given out on rent.

The long-running legal battle focuses on whether SecLink Technologies was incorrectly excluded from the bidding process when the Indian billionaire won the Dharavi slum project with a $619 million ...

"I grew up in Nima. It's a slum area, probably like a ghetto," says Kudus. "You have to be very tough to sustain yourself in an area like that. "To start all the way from Nima and then leave home very ...

India’s capital New Delhi has vowed to clear one of its largest trash piles by 2026, as part of plans to eradicate unsightly landfills dotting the megacity’s skyline. Around 32 million people ...

By the end of the year, waste at the Bhalswa dump on the city's northern outskirts "will be reduced to a point where it will no longer be visible" from a distance, he said. "Our ultimate aim is to ...

It’s a cold wintry January day as an autorickshaw takes me from Delhi’s Uttam Nagar West Metro station past muddy roads into the narrow bylanes of West Delhi’s slums, home to migrant ...

A municipal truck carries waste at the Bhalswa landfill in New Delhi on March 5, 2025. AFP PHOTO Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa told reporters Tuesday that work was underway to ...

Environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa's plan to flatten Bhalswa landfill by 2024 faces delays due to fresh waste dumping and lack of a standing committee. Environment minister Manjinder Singh ...