Millions of people in Lagos live in slums. Slums typically have poor housing infrastructure and sanitation, and limited access to education, health facilities and clean drinking water. These ...

Officials involved in the verification exercise say a clear pattern has emerged over recent weeks. Most people living in ...

Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam is known for its long coastline, expanding IT corridors, and fast-growing industrial space. Yet, ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to ...

An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - About one billion slum dwellers in developing countries are vulnerable to disasters because they live in congested and poorly built houses without emergency services, the Red Cross ...

The Centre has already handed over as many as 95.54 lakh houses to beneficiaries under two schemes of Pradhan Mantri Awas ...

Living in Nairobi’s slums is tough – residents are 35% more likely to suffer from high blood pressure than those in rural areas Hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure, is a ...

Lucknow: A team of Lucknow police and Local Intel Unit (LIU) on Monday carried out an extensive verification drive in the ...

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday stopped the Capital Development Authority's (CDA) operation in Muslim Colony, a slum ares in ...