Show more Show less Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one-storey home crammed into a tangle of alleys Families who lived in Dharavi before 2000 will receive free housing; those who arrived between 2000 ...

Residents of an informal settlement in India’s Ahmedabad city work on painting their home with sun-reflective white paint Summer in India’s northwestern metropolis of Ahmedabad was never easy for ...

On Tuesday, the UT Estate Office reclaimed around 4.5 acres of government land worth ₹250 crore, after demolishing the slum. The settlement comprised around 300 huts and tenements, housing nearly ...

GOPALPUR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every year, Neelabeni and her family await the monsoon with trepidation in their mud-and-brick home in an informal settlement near the coast in the ...

In Gurugram, an upscale suburb just outside Delhi, gleaming SUVs, futuristic skyscrapers and neat apartments stand in stark contrast to nearby mosquito swarms, trash heaps and tarpaulin shanties.

BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Once known as Temple City for its ancient Hindu temples, Bhubaneswar in the eastern Indian state of Odisha aims to reposition itself as a hub ...

Mumbai, India (CNN) — When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all ...

Hazeena looked pale and hungry when she came to a kindergarten managed by Catholic nuns in a southern Indian state. A few months earlier, the 7-year-old girl was seen helping her parents in the ...

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents like Bipinkumar Padaya. "I was born here, my father was born here, my ...

The redevelopment scheme, led by Mumbai authorities and billionaire tycoon Gautam Adani, reflects modern India -- excessive ... demands "a house for a house, a shop for a shop". "We want to get out of ...