Last Updated: Monday, November 29, 2010, 00:09
Brazil claimed victory on day in its crackdown on the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
Last Updated: Friday, November 19, 2010, 16:42
The country will have about 93.06 million people living in slums by next year, up by over 18 million in the past 10 years, the government said on Friday.
Last Updated: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 21:08
The families of CRPF personnel have collected unused and spare household items to be distributed in the slums of the national capital.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 19:44
Bringing relief to lakhs of slum dwellers in Mumbai`s coastal areas, Environment Ministry has decided to allow re-development of their housing units through joint ventures with 51 per cent Government equity.
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 23:05
A government survey has found that about 49,000 slums existed in urban areas of the country till July last year, with the highest number of them being in Maharashtra followed by Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 18:13
Over 1,000 people became homeless after the municipal corporation here demolished 215 slums at Ektanar on the Ajwa road on the outskirt of the city on Saturday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 11:55
Hundreds of people were rendered homeless when more than 200 slum dwellings were gutted in fire in this Haryana district. Five people were injured, an official said Wednesday.
Last Updated: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 14:45
A person was burnt to death and 400 slum dwellings gutted in two fire incidents in the slum areas of the capital early Sunday, a fire official said.
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 22:32
Thirty people, including 20 children, were injured when a fire broke out in a slum cluster here following leakage of cooking gas this morning, fire brigade officials said.
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 00:33
The Mantralaya makeover plan prepared by the public works department has not been made under the slum rehabilitation scheme, Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal said here today.
Last Updated: Friday, March 5, 2010, 13:23
In order to further improve rural health services in a big way, Maharashtra government has initiated a programme where PG medical students and faculty members will go to the slum and Naxal-infested areas across the state.
Last Updated: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 17:59
The Mayors Forum lauded the efforts of Vadodara Mahanagar Sewa Sadan for undertaking construction of more than 17,000 housing units for 60,000 urban poor families.
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