The city of joy, Kolkata has a slum area known as Basanti slum. It is one of the major slum areas. One third of Kolkata’s population lives these slums. 6. Indiramma Nagar, Hyderabad: Hyderabad, the ...

Bangalore: In the clean and green cities of India, one can also find those dark alleys, shabby and tiny areas that homes a million people - the slums. The number of slum dwellers is on the rise due to ...

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But Nobue’s life took a different course after she worked as a volunteer in India under Mother Teresa ... the world as “the saint of the Calcutta slums,” during her spring vacation before ...

The playground, locally referred to as Jheel Para Maath, is on RR Plot that might be just a kilometre away from the slums but ...

Kolkata: A fire broke out on Sunday morning in a slum in the Ultadanga area of the city, Fire Brigade officials said. The ...

Kolkata experiences a noticeable drop in Air Quality Index as human efforts and increased wind speeds contribute to better ...

Kolkata: A fire broke out in the Krishnapalli slum area beside Ultadanga rail line around 5.30 am on Sunday. Around five shanties were completely gutted in the fire. Nobody was injured in the ...

Working in Paris and India at the turn of the last century ... is that after the initial resistance people began to queue in the slums in Calcutta for Haffkine's cholera vaccine, they queued ...