Slums are increasing by the year in Bangalore and in other urban areas of Karnataka, which is one of the highly urbanized states with 37% of its 6.11 ...

Bengaluru has only about 40% of its slums formally recognised by city authorities. The limited access to public benefits and basic infrastructure due to lack of recognition has left most slum ...

Bangalore prides itself as the nucleus of the “new India,” a cosmopolitan city where the nation’s growing consumers spend and international businesses thrive. Being the new India often requires ...

MUMBAI, India — About one in six Indian city residents lives in an urban slum with unsanitary conditions that are “unfit for human habitation,” according to the first complete census of ...

Bangalore: In the clean and green cities of India, one can also find those dark alleys, shabby and tiny areas that homes a million people - the slums. The number of slum dwellers is on the rise due to ...

The cost of this is high. Last year, three Indian cities—Kolkata, Bangalore and Pune—made it to the top five in a global ...

A new census report says one in six people in Indian cities live in some 100,000 sprawling slums with conditions "unfit for human habitation." The statistics are India's first complete count of ...

Across India’s bustling cities, a crisis of staggering proportions is unfolding, largely unseen and uncared for by those who don’t wish to notice. As India strides toward modernization and ...

Researchers say recognising slums would aid in them dealing with flooding as unrecognised slums are left out of government schemes and policies that are meant to improve the resilience of ...