Two children dead in Delhi slum fire

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.

Delhi slum dancers revive a sub-culture

Last Updated: Saturday, June 2, 2012, 09:23

It`s hard to imagine that a small room in a dingy lane is the training ground for young talent from nearby slums who are on their way to becoming B-Boys (Break Boys) who perform the Breaking or B-boying street dance genre.

Delhi slum dancers revive a sub-culture

Last Updated: Saturday, June 2, 2012, 09:23

It`s hard to imagine that a small room in a dingy lane is the training ground for young talent from nearby slums who are on their way to becoming B-Boys (Break Boys) who perform the Breaking or B-boying street dance genre.

Delhi govt to allot houses to slum dwellers soon

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 20:48

Delhi government has decided to start allocation of around 10,000 low-cost flats to slum dwellers from next month.

Govt told to expedite flat allotment to slum dwellers

Last Updated: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 11:49

The 27-year-long wait of slum dwellers to own a house in the capital may soon end.

Fire in east Delhi slum cluster

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 19:43

A fire broke out in a slum cluster in east Delhi early this morning gutting around 500 dwellings, fire brigade officials said.

Delhi slum dwellers to get flats

Last Updated: Monday, January 16, 2012, 23:26

Delhi government decided to give ownership rights of flats given to slum dwellers through a central city modernisation scheme.

Now, Delhi slum children to study in Australia

Last Updated: Sunday, March 6, 2011, 11:39

Delhi`s urban poor youth would have a chance to go all the way to Australia for studying.

Fire in Delhi slum settlement, four dead

Last Updated: Monday, March 8, 2010, 10:06

At least four people were killed when a fire gutted 350 dwellings in a slum settlement in north Delhi early Monday.

One dead in fire at Games village site

Last Updated: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 00:47

A woman labourer died and several others were injured in a fire that broke out in the temporary cabins erected at the Commonwealth Games Village site in Delhi Saturday, police said.

Survey of Delhi slum areas to provide basic services

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 17:57

Delhi Government will soon launch a survey to prepare a comprehensive data base of slum dwellers in the city so that they could be provided basic services.