A Middle Eastern millionaire says he couldn't wait to leave 'miserable' London - branding the capital 'Europe's slum' and ...

Startling photos depicting childhood, community and poverty in Greater Manchester's slums have been unearthed. The 1960s and ...

A landlord has been slammed after asking prospective tenants to pay more than $260 a week to share a tiny 'slum-room' with another person. The owner used Facebook to advertise the room in an ...

Mumbai city is spread across an area of around 1 lakh acres of which the habitable portion is around 34,000 acres, as per a ...

Indian American historian Shailaja Paik has had quite the week since she was made a MacArthur Fellow and received a ‘genius ...

Over a short span progress is hard to plot. Fifty years ago people died of starvation in British slums: today no one need starve in Britain. Yet the majority are perhaps less happy in their work.

During the 1960s, the inner-city, working-class areas of Britain’s major cities were becoming increasingly multicultural ...

It is also the most extreme example of the myriad problems facing all Indian cities. Mumbai has more billionaires than any ...

Among the 1,697 SRA schemes in Mumbai, as per its official website, some are success stories, while others end up being vertical slums with a myriad of problems. (HT Photo) Once the redevelopment ...

Pinky Haryan as a child along with her mother used to beg near the Buddha temple at McLeodganj in Dharamsala in Kangra ...

As India strides toward modernization and globalization, it is leaving behind millions of people living in slums for whom the promise of development has no meaning. The rapid growth of slums ...

Hundreds of slum dwellers from Nsoba slum in Kawempe Division thronged Nsoba gardens on September 22 to get lunch, a meal that is considered a luxury by most urban poor. By 8am, families that ...