Slum dwellers in developing countries, including India and Bangladesh, are as badly off as, if not worse off than, their rural relatives, says a new UN-HABITAT report released Saturday ...

Hyderabad: Revenue and Housing Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy on Friday said that the government would take up ...

Hyderabad: Housing minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Friday said that the state government is focusing on constructing G+3 ...

Telangana government to build Indiramma houses in urban localities for the poor, shifting focus from rural areas.

Nentawe Yilwatda, the minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty reduction, says the federal government is using artificial ...

And only 75.5 per cent of the households in rural areas were using improved sanitation facilities, against 93.5 per cent in the urban. Yet against these statistics, sprawls of slum areas in the ...

What six decades ago was termed the county’s “worst rural slum area'” has become a destination for residents with a desire for upscale rural living. “We see all over the mountain the ...

We found that the low socio-economic status of the slum residents, coupled with high medication prices, limited treatment. Nairobi's slum dwellers experience sub-optimal access to essential services.