MUMBAI (Reuters) - In Nehru Nagar, the teeming Mumbai slum featured in the Golden Globe-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire," the only music heard is on tiny radio sets and the young boys have no ...
An estimated 83% of the United States population lives in urban areas, up from 64% in 1950. And experts predict by 2050, 89% of Americans and 68% of the world population will reside in urban areas.
Perhaps no other word evokes apathy and despondency in many people like the word slum. Most people associate it with anything filthy, wretched, perverse and oddly virulent. I remember with amusement ...
Why do slums co-exist with affluent neighbourhoods? Mukuru with South B, Kangemi with Loresho, Githogori with Runda, Mathare with Muthaiga, Deep Sea with Spring Valley? Other towns outside Nairobi ...
The Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Rahul Narwekar, on Thursday asked the state government to examine the possibility of accommodating tenants residing on the first floors of slum ...
Fighting adversity and faced with extreme poverty in the Kampala urban slum of Nakawa, was no deterrent for Rugby Africa Unstoppable ( <a id="d6cb5418-506a-3ab0-a1ec ...