The Supreme Court recently observed that once a slum area is declared as 'censused slum' i.e., the slums located on land belonging to government or municipal undertaking, than such slums are ...

Living in a property with mould is linked to various health risks. Mould can affect the immune system and lead to symptoms such as nasal congestion, sneezing, coughing and respiratory infections ...

Hundreds of roofs in Gujarat's informal settlements have been coated with reflective white paint to combat extreme summer temperatures. The project, involving 400 households in Ahmedabad, aims to ...

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 ...

He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “I live in squalor. 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, ...

She was married off at the tender age of 12 and sent to stay with her husband's family in a Mumbai slum. What was supposed to be a new beginning soon became a living hell of physical and emotional ...

Sarah Wise has returned to Bethnal Green, where she was last seen recounting the fate of ‘The Italian Boy’, murdered in 1831 by grave robbers so that they could sell his corpse for dissection. In The ...

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 ...