Residents use a public tap to fill their water containers in Hyderabad, India, last month. on March 18. (Mahesh Kumar A./AP) India’s lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus is laying bare ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A healthcare worker reacts as she receives a dose of COVISHIELD, a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, ...

Tarang is a children NGO in India which offers free education to the slum children in Mumbai. They run multiple educational programs for the welfare of the slum children in Mumbai and their ...

India's cities are growing fast, but not everyone benefits equally. A large part of the urban population still lives in slums, often without proper sanitation, water, or stable housing. In fact, about ...

For every resident who gets a new flat under the slum rehabilitation, nearly 10 move to other slums, finds a study of 15 ...

The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old ...

KOLKATA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's not easy giving directions when you live in a slum. All his life, Dipak Roy had identified his home as the one on the corner, down the third by-lane, ...

Due to rapid urbanization and lack of a proper housing scheme in India, slums have become a dumping ground for the surplus urban population. These slums are regarded as illegal from the point of view ...