F rom a modest upbringing in Tughlakabad’s slums to commanding stages with global icons, Sunil Tulsiani’s story is anything ...

About a sixth of the world's population — nearly 1 billion people — live in slums, and that number could double by 2030 if developed nations don't reverse course and start giving the issue serious ...

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...

Last year, ahead of the state assembly polls held in November 2024, Eknath Shinde, who was the CM then, had handed over the ...

In a guest blog post, Indian journalist Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar argues that, contrary to their reputation for squalor and crime, slums provide a critical low-cost way for the rural poor to ...

In Rio de Janeiro, police and military on Sunday successfully retook one of the city's largest and most dangerous favelas, or slums, from drug lords. The military-style invasion involved more than ...

A terrible mix of unemployment, poverty, crime, and the climate crisis is making life unbearable for those living in the ...

Middlemen sell water from illegal connections to the city water supply. Dec. 13, 2010— -- In the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, even the simple act of giving your child a glass of water requires an ...

Rio de Janeiro has named its first female police chief after a purge of the city’s civil force revealed widespread corruption, as the struggle continues to pacify the favelas before the World Cup in ...

This infographic shows the countries in which the proportion of the urban population living in slums was greater than 30 percent in 2022.