ISpiice a non-profit organization is promoting education and sustainable development in slums of India DHARAMSALA, HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA, November 25, 2023 ...

As part of Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations have set targets of upgrading slums and reducing poverty in all its dimensions by 2030. Policies towards improving the living conditions of ...

NEW DELHI, May 17 (Reuters) - The number of people living in slums in India, Asia's fourth largest economy, has more than doubled in the past two decades, the government said on Thursday. Urban slum ...

Until recently, Vikas Gawali lived in a one-room shack with his wife, two daughters, his mother, his older brother and sister-in-law, their children, and another brother—12 people in a single room.

New Delhi (CNN) — The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” ...

Mumbai, India — At 7 a.m., Rupali Rao Kilare starts getting ready for the day in the cramped home she shares with five family members. Though the sun has long risen, some alleys remain pitch dark as ...

India's economy is booming, but the new wealth is not shared by all. Some 400 million Indians still live on less than a dollar a day. This disparity in wealth is starkly evident in Bombay, which ...

When Jillian Haslam was 8 years old, she would stand outside a tea shop in the slums of Calcutta for hours to receive a ladle of milk that would help save her baby sister's life. This was one of many ...