It’s like I’m living in the Victorian slums era. I have to double pay – I pay for the rent, and then I’m paying for the hotel, because when I get sick, it’s just not safe. “The council ...

A man living with a lung condition claims his treatment by the council has been ‘abusive and oppressive’ as he faces a daily battle with mould and rats in his property. Errol Baptiste, 60, has been ...

A well-wisher sponsored him to school, snatching him from the unforgiving hands of slum poverty, crime and drug and thankfully, he devoted himself to studies, scaling his way to top echelon of ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...

It’s a cold wintry January day as an autorickshaw takes me from Delhi’s Uttam Nagar West Metro station past muddy roads into the narrow bylanes of West Delhi’s slums, home to migrant ...

The long-running legal battle focuses on whether SecLink Technologies was incorrectly excluded from the bidding process when the Indian billionaire won the Dharavi slum project with a $619 million ...

It's time for the "Victorian-era punishment" of smacking children to be banned in England as it "undoubtedly harms children's health", according to a group representing leading doctors.

Victorian government ministers faced intense questioning from reporters on Saturday over the transparency of their costings for the $34.5 billion rail project. The federal government has put the ...