Chandigarh: Slums may lack basic amenities, but computers, Internet connectivity and cars have made their way into the dingy alleys in Punjab. As per data, as much as 7 per cent of slums have computers/laptops without Internet and 4.3 per cent have computers with Internet in Punjab. Punjab has 14.2 per cent of urban households living in slums while out of 143 towns, 71 have reported slums in 18 districts, as per 2011 census data on slum households for Punjab released by Seema Jain, Director Census, Punjab.
However, SBS Nagar and Barnala districts have not reported any slum. She said it is for the first time that data on housing stock, amenities and assets are being released for slum areas. In Ludhiana, 6 per cent of slum households have computer/laptop with Internet and 8 per cent without Internet followed by Jalandhar wherein 5.7 per cent are having computer/laptop with Internet and 6.6 per cent without Internet.
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03:57 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Mumbai: Social activist Medha Patkar, who was on a fast for nine days against demolition of a slum in Mumbai, called off her fast late Friday night after Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan assured her that an inquiry into the demolition would be completed within eight days. "Ended the fast after a meaningful resolution of issues following meetings with Secretary Housing & CM. Thanks everyone for support. Zindabaad!" Patkar tweeted...
09:56 AM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: Two people, including a child, died on Friday when a massive fire broke out at a slum area in Delhi's Bawana region. Angry locals targeted police officials, who had reached the spot to tender assistance. 20 fire tenders were rushed to the spot and have finally contained the fire. Five people have been injured in the fire, which took place near an industrial area. Police said over a...
06:09 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: One child has died in the massive fire that broke out at a slum area in Delhi's Bawana region on Friday. Angry locals targeted police officials, who had reached the spot to tender assistance. 20 fire tenders were rushed to the spot and have finally contained the fire. Five people have been injured in the fire, which took place near an industrial area. Police said over a hundred...
05:16 PM, Apr 12, 2013
A fire broke out at Bawana slum clusters in Delhi on Friday gutting several hutments. Twenty-fire tenders were reportedly rushed to the site immediately to douse the blaze. ...
03:52 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: A fire broke out at Bawana slum clusters in Delhi on Friday gutting several hutments. Twenty-fire tenders were reportedly rushed to the site immediately to douse the blaze. A team of police has also reached the spot. Initial reports said a loud sound was heard before the fire broke out indicating that an LPG cylinder blast could be the cause of the mishap. Officials, however, said the cause...
02:36 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Mumbai: Social activist Medha Patkar's hunger strike entered its ninth day on Thursday. She is protesting against the demolition of 43 houses in the Golibar slum area. She claims that the residents were promised they would not be evicted and their homes would not be demolished till an enquiry in the case was complete. Activist Aruna Roy has written to Sonia Gandhi, to ask Medha Patkar to end her fast....
08:20 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: Scores of BJP activists led by Delhi state President Vijay Goel on Friday courted arrest during a protest outside Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's residence in New Delhi against government's alleged failure to provide houses to four lakh slum dwellers. The activists broke the barricade and reached right in front of the Chief Minister's residence shouting slogans and demanding Dikshit's resignation. They later courted arrest and were taken to...
04:12 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP's Delhi unit on Wednesday demanded the resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit following a CAG report that slammed the Delhi government. "All our allegations have proved to be true with this report. The Delhi government has looted and cheated people," Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel told reporters. "Sheila Dikshit should resign from the chief minister's post," he said. In its report, the Comptroller and Auditor...
04:53 AM, Apr 04, 2013
The central government will monitor the periodical up-gradation of slums in the country by making a "slum upgradation index", a union minister said on Thursday. ...
03:51 AM, Mar 22, 2013
'Trance' stars James McAvoy as Simon, a man who teams with a criminal (Vincent Cassel) to steal a painting. ...
11:06 AM, Mar 20, 2013
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
Around 700 shanties were gutted in a fire in Santoshpur-Maheshtala area on the outskirts of the city on Saturday, leaving more than a thousand people homeless. ...
10:32 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Actor Rajkumar Yadav, who will share screen space with internationally acclaimed Indian actress Freida Pinto in 'NH10', is quite impressed with his co-star's down-to-earth attitude and describes her as a wonderful person. ...
10:20 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Seventeen people sustained burns and around 150 huts were gutted in a major fire that engulfed a slum near Bandra station, officials said on Thursday. ...
04:17 AM, Mar 08, 2013
'Slumdog Millionaire' director Danny Boyle refused to accept knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II as he would prefer to be an equal citizen than a celebrity. ...
12:27 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Freida Pinto will host a special pre-Oscar party where she will promote the issue of education for the girl child. ...
11:13 AM, Feb 21, 2013
A tea-stall owner in Cuttack doubles up as a teacher to provide free education to slum children. Every morning, the tea-stall owner, Prakash Rao, serves free milk to a bunch of kids who gather near his stall. If it weren't for the 55-year-old's initiative, the young ones wouldn't have seen the inside of a classroom. ...
09:26 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Vikas Swarup, the author of Q&A, the novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire', has come up with another page turner - 'The Accidental Apprentice'. As character-driven narrations go, 'The Accidental Apprentice' has the hallmarks of a successful screenplay and might just hit pay dirt as 'Slumdog' did in 2009. ...
03:41 PM, Jan 29, 2013
