A youth was quizzed by police on Sunday after he asked a minister why Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee did not visit a slum in West Bengal where 700 shanties were destroyed in fire on Saturday. The incident happened during Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim's visit to Sholo Bigha slum in the Maheshtala Santoshpur area of South 24-Parganas where a blaze had rendered 1,500 people homeless on Saturday morning. ...
11:28 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Delhi government, after an intervention by NHRC, extended a monetary relief of Rs one lakh to a homeless women who delivered a baby in a park after being chased and hit by the police. The relief came over a year after the National Human Right Commission took cognisance of the issue on the basis of a complaint enclosing a newspaper report dated February 1, 2011, was made to it, NHRC...
10:39 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Despite the Delhi High Court's order directing the government to build one shelter per one lakh population, the capital still has only 150 temporary and permanent shelters that can house a mere 7500 homeless people of the city. With over three lakh homeless people in Delhi, the existing shelters are not only inadequate, they are also in poor conditions. ...
09:28 AM, Jan 05, 2013
As the temperatures drop, the worst sufferers are those who have no home, no food and no warmth. At CNN-IBN, we bring you the plight of the homeless and how you can help. ...
11:22 PM, Jan 04, 2013
After CNN-IBN relentlessly showed the plight of the homeless on Delhi streets, the government has finally taken notice. Delhi Urban Development Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely has formed eight teams of experts to inspect the functioning of night shelters in the national capital. ...
10:49 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Lakhs of people come to Delhi everyday in search of a good job, better life and a brighter future. But lack of economic or social support for the urban poor in the capital forces a large percentage to live on the streets. ...
08:30 AM, Jan 04, 2013
CNN-IBN's a campaign to help the homeless during the bitter North India cold focuses on the over 10,000 homeless women on Delhi streets who only have 5 shelters to rely on across the city. The women are not only battling with the cold, but also with repeated sexual and social abuse. ...
09:00 AM, Jan 03, 2013
CNN-IBN's a campaign to help the homeless during the bitter North India cold focuses on the over 10,000 homeless women on Delhi streets who only have 5 shelters to rely on across the city. The women are not only battling with the cold, but also with repeated sexual and social abuse. ...
09:00 AM, Jan 03, 2013
CNN-IBN's a campaign to help the homeless during the bitter North India cold focuses on the over 10,000 homeless women on Delhi streets who only have 5 shelters to rely on across the city. The women are not only battling with the cold, but also with repeated sexual and social abuse. ...
09:00 AM, Jan 03, 2013
As the temperatures drop, the worst sufferers are those who have no home, no food and no warmth. At CNN-IBN, we bring you the plight of the homeless and how you can help. ...
11:29 PM, Jan 02, 2013
As the temperatures drop, the worst sufferers are those who have no home, no food and no warmth. At CNN-IBN, we bring you the plight of the homeless and how you can help. ...
09:29 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Over three lakh people in Delhi live on streets braving extreme weather, economic hardship and government apathy. Though there are arrangements of night shelters for homeless people, many don't prefer going there citing the transport cost involved in reaching the shelters. There are others who allege that police isn't sensitive towards them and abuse them. ...
11:47 AM, Jan 02, 2013
Cold, hungry, and homeless - over three lakh people in Delhi live on the streets, braving extreme weather, economic hardship and government apathy. A basement near central Delhi's Hanuman Mandir has been home to Ram Sagar Pandey for the last 25 years. He says, "I am telling you. I have voted for Sheila Dikshit, without even having a ration card or an identity card." Ram Sagar Pandey sells trinkets at...
07:44 AM, Dec 31, 2012
The cold wave sweeping through Uttar Pradesh has claimed more than 30 lives in a 24-hour span, officials here said ON December 27. The maximum number of deaths, between Wednesday and Thursday morning, were reported from Bhadohi district where five people succumbed to the cold. As many as four people died in Balia and three each in Allahabad, Mirzapur, Sonebhadra, Ghazipur, Barabanki, Chandauli and Azamgarh districts. Shrawasti and Mau districts...
02:23 PM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the city government to shift temporary night shelters for the homeless and the poor closer to their work places. A division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw allowed the plea of NGO Shahri Adhikar Manch Begharon Ke Liye that the shelters should be closer to the work place of people so that the poor can use...
08:28 AM, Dec 09, 2012
Pazarbhanga (Assam): The annual monsoon has claimed 109 lives since rains started in June and left at least 400,000 people homeless in Assam, in a tragedy experts say was made worse by corruption and poor management of the Brahmaputra River. A senior member of the Assam Human Rights Commission, a government body, told Reuters it suspects millions of dollars meant for flood control have been siphoned off by state water...
07:34 AM, Jul 17, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: A homeless couple turned over to police a bag containing about 20,000 reais ($10,000) that they found abandoned on a street in Brazil's largest city, authorities said. The couple, who have been living together for about four months under a bridge in eastern Sao Paulo and support themselves by selling recyclable trash, approached a security guard in the early hours Sunday and asked him to call the...
12:01 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: In Delhi, around 14 children go missing everyday, according to the records of Delhi government's Home Department. The data compiled in the past two years between 2010 and 2012 says that out of 14 children only 10 are traced and four are still not found. In the past two years, 11,554 kids went missing, according to the data compiled within 851 days. Only 7457 kids were found during...
06:00 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Hyderabad: For nearly two years, 30-year-old Ramesh Kothwal has been responsible for saving the lives and providing shelter to several destitutes in Hyderabad. Physically handicapped and with no one to call his own, Adikrishna has now found happiness in a small shelter, Bharathi Memorial foundation, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Started by Rajesh Kothwal in 2010, the ashram now takes care of around 70 destitutes, including 14 children. "The doctors,...
09:13 AM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: The national capital is home over 10,000 homeless women, and that's only the official figure. But Delhi has just four permanent shelters that can accommodate only 200 women. And the 72 temporary shelters can accommodate very few women. But even where homeless women can sleep - security issues mean they prefer the open. One of the homeless women said, "Who will take responsibility for us if we are...
09:09 AM, Jan 18, 2012
