Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of "disastrous" ...

Delhi health department's ongoing community-based tuberculosis (TB) screening drive in urban slums has identified 37 cases ...

Senior BJP leader Amar Kumar Bauri criticized the Jharkhand government's decision to rename Atal Mohalla Clinic as the Mother ...

With the first phase of Indiramma houses nearing completion in rural areas, Telangana Revenue, Housing, Information and Public Relations Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy has announced that the state ...

The NCLT, Mumbai Bench, approved the CIRP resolution plan for Darshan Group, a significant step in Mumbai's urban renewal. It ...

DUSIB has formed a nine-member committee to explore replicating Mumbai's Dharavi slum rehabilitation model in Delhi, assessing its feasibility.

The promises of Indian cities are faltering. Physical exhaustion, rising costs of living and alienation are leading people to ...

In a precedent-setting judgment, the Bombay High Court has upheld a 2022 Maharashtra regulation allowing rehabilitation projects within designated open spaces in cities—offering a transformative alter ...

The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, has announced implementing over 150 slum upgrading and urban renewal projects across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones ...

Panchkula: In a major step towards the much-awaited and long delayed rehabilitation of slums in the city, Haryana govt has asked the Panchkula mayor, .

More than half of all households in Bangladesh's urban slums face food insecurity, and nearly half of children are stunted.

SVR SRINIVAS, the CEO of Dharavi Redevelopment Project, speaks to The Free Press Journal's Editor S BALAKRISHNAN about the ...