Last Updated: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 13:37
Nine people, including one police officer, were fatally shot during gunbattles that erupted in a slum complex near Rio international airport, authorities said in an updated toll.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 15:46
The Rajiv Awas Yojana is billed as the government’s most ambitious scheme for ridding the country of slums.
Last Updated: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 11:07
Patkar was fasting since April 4 after 43 houses of the Ganesh Krupa Housing Society in Mumbai`s Golibar slum area were razed by civic authorities.
Last Updated: Friday, April 12, 2013, 15:09
Two children were charred to death when a fire broke out in Bawana slum area today gutting hundreds of hutments, fire brigade officials said.
Last Updated: Monday, March 18, 2013, 18:21
A private complaint was Monday filed in the Lokayukta court against city civic body corporators and officials of Slum Development Board and MLAs, alleging irregularities in allotment of houses to slum dwellers.
Last Updated: Monday, March 18, 2013, 09:19
For the first time, a choir from the University of Cambridge - the Jesus College Choir - will perform for and work with slum children in Mumbai as part of a project with the charity Songbound, which aims to change the lives of deprived children through music.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 17:20
At least 17 people were injured and around 150 houses gutted in a major fire which broke out in a slum at suburban Bandra in the wee hours on Thursday, fire officials said.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 09:04
Eight people sustained burn injuries and around 100 huts were reduced to ashes in a major fire that engulfed a slum near Bandra station in west Mumbai, officials said on Thursday.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 22:34
Delhi government on Thursday relaxed norms to facilitate housing accommodation for majority of slum dwellers under its slum rehabilitation policy.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 20:22
Hazare, who met Patkar and other protesters at the Azad Maidan, venue of the protest and a relay hunger strike, expressed support for the agitation and said he would discuss the issue with chief minister Prithviraj Chavan.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 18, 2012, 11:21
At least 11 people, mostly women and children, were killed and several others injured Sunday in a fire that ripped through a massive slum.
Last Updated: Friday, November 9, 2012, 11:48
Lady Gaga Thursday played soccer and sang with children in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, where she is set to perform this week.
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