Bhubaneswar: In a bid to create rapport with slum residents and curb crimes in those localities, city police have launched an initiative to organise cricket tournaments between different slums under ...

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has directed the provincial health department to establish mobile testing facilities in Karachi's slum areas, for which he is ready to provide extra testing kits.

SINGAPORE -- Around 64% of people who live in urban slums are in Asia, as the region experienced rapid rural-to-urban migration that has left millions of urban dwellers in poverty, according to the ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to ...

Residents of the world's slums are battling to carve out a place in the cities of the future. Home to 900 million people — nearly 1 in every 7 people — slums are emerging as a "dominant and distinct ...

Rourkela: While returning home from work one day, Saroj Nayak was struck by a woman's plight. Her husband, in an inebriated condition and with a bottle in hand, was stumbling down the streets while ...

Nairobi, Kenya: There was panic in Kibera slums, Nairobi during a mock train derailment exercise, with hundreds of police being mobilised to the scene. Officials from the National Disaster Operations ...