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 crore people living in urban areas. BANGALORE ...

BANGALORE: The city will be slum-free in three to four years, according to chief minister B S Yeddyurappa. At an event to mark building of 1,500 houses for residents of Ragigudda slum on Saturday ...

The hyperactive 20-year-old is a salesman for Pollinate Energy, a social enterprise NGO that has, in the past five months, sold 400 private solar systems to slum dwellers in north Bangalore.

Being the new India often requires supplanting, or ignoring, the old. Unlike other mega-cities in the country, the slums here do not lay openly next to luxury condos. An estimated fifth of Bangalore’s ...

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 ...

Researchers say recognising slums would aid in them dealing with flooding as unrecognised slums are left out of government schemes and ... Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Jul 29, 2024, 06.00 AM IST.

Sightsavers India has recently received a donation of a Mobile Eye Health Van from Alcon (India), to provide access to eye care to the slum dwellers of urban Bengaluru. According to the press ...

By some accounts, Bangalore was the second Asian city, after Tokyo, to be electrified. According to estimates, only 20,000 slum dwellers here lack electricity. That figure “is clearly wrong ...

Bangalore, INDIA — It's a little after sundown, and Arun Kumar is hawking his wares in the neighborhood for the first time. He's selling a light, just a small half-circle tied to a three-inch ...