London: The growing phenomenon of rich tourists visiting slums in Mumbai and elsewhere for entertainment, mainly sparked off by movie 'Slumdog Millionaire', is the subject of a new study at the University of Leicester. The study is also examining whether slum tourism can help tackle global inequalities and injustices, by analysing the growth in tours of areas of urban poverty, often called slums, favelas or townships. The project, funded by...
05:26 PM, May 22, 2012
Kolkata: Describing the eviction of people from slums in Nonadanga in the eastern part of the city as a "tragedy and great crime", human rights activist Binayak Sen Sunday accused the West Bengal government of being inhuman. "It (eviction) is a great tragedy and a great crime committed. It is really inhumane on the part of the government to displace the people without providing viable alternative and livelihood options," Sen...
09:11 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Mumbai: Cruising along the wavy road along the Haji Ali sea face to Worli, you would miss the frayed squares of cloth that balloon up on the other side of the embankment, where the tetra pods mark the start of reclaimed land. When you peer over, you see that the cloths form the roofs of tenuous makeshift houses built among the rocks, stretching between the Haji Ali jetty and Lala...
12:40 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Chennai: No slums have come up in the city since the last 26 years, if one were to go by the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) records. Sources told City Express that Tamil Nadu had been a forerunner in bringing out the Slum Clearance Act in 1971, but it had not declared any new slums since the last 26 years. Also, the baseline data of Tamil Nadu on urban...
08:01 AM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: Slum children in urban areas across the world, including India, happen to be the most deprived and their sufferings are often obscured by broad statistical averages, a latest UN study has said. In India, like the rest of the world, cities were the "settings for some of the greatest disparities in children's health, education and opportunities," says the report 'The state of the World's Children 2012: Children in...
09:47 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Kolkata: As the midnight horror engulfed Kolkata's AMRI hospital the first hand of help came from people living in a slum next door. Braving the fire and smoke they were the first people to reach out to patients who were struggling to escape. A horror Basadum Kayal, slum dweller, didn't expect to wake up to, little did he realise that the smell of smoke was coming from the AMRI hospital...
06:07 AM, Dec 10, 2011
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday said the Government is determined to develop Hyderabad and provide maximum civic amenities to the people. Hyderabad will be a slum-free city soon and this project will be taken up under the Rajiv Awaas Yojana, an official release quoted him as saying. The Chief Minister said in order to reduce flooding road widening was taken up for 15 drains...
12:06 AM, Aug 22, 2011
Mumbai: Social activist Medha Patkar, who was protesting the eviction of slum-dwellers from Golibar in suburban Khar, ended her fast on the ninth day on Saturday after the Maharashtra government agreed to her demands. "Medha has ended her fast after Collector Nirmal Deshmukh came up with a notification this afternoon. They have agreed to her demands," Madhuresh Kumar, a member of National Alliance of Peoples' Movement (NAPM) and Patkar's associate...
02:48 PM, May 28, 2011
Mumbai: Child actor Rubina Ali, who featured in the Oscar-winning 'Slumdog Millionaire' has lost her home in the major fire, that gutted several shanties in suburban Bandra. "I have lost everything including the film memorabilia," Rubina said on Saturday. The 12-year-old said she was inside her home when fire broke out in the Garibnagar slums on Friday. Nine people were injured and hundreds were rendered homeless in the incident. Rubina...
10:56 AM, Mar 05, 2011
India is witnessing a silent malnutrition crisis. 17 kids have been the victims in a single slum locality in Mumbai since April 2010. ...
09:30 PM, Dec 14, 2010
Children living in a slum and an NGO join hands to realise dreams. ...
10:36 AM, May 05, 2010
This week we focus on those who struggle to make ends meet but continue to do so with a smile on their faces. ...
06:18 PM, Jan 10, 2010
A general view of Dharavi, considered Asia's biggest shantytown. ...
06:35 PM, Nov 02, 2009
The Government will launch a special housing scheme for the urban poor. ...
12:31 AM, Jun 05, 2009
The director of the movie is in India to to help child stars get a house. ...
11:24 PM, May 27, 2009
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