Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday highlighted the long-standing issues, and neglect faced by underprivileged families living in the slum settlements of the national capital for decades, ...

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 ...

Gupta accused the previous governments of failing to provide basic amenities such as toilets, parks, roads, drainage systems, ...

NEW DELHI (AP) – There is almost no movement in the pre-dawn cold, when the winter fog sits low over the old city and the only light comes from distant street lamps. The parking lot is silent, except ...

Hyderabad: The state government is now planning to merge the Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas (MEPMA) ...

Mumbai's monsoon deaths hit the poor hardest. Slum residents face higher risks from waterborne diseases and flood injuries. A ...

MUMBAI, India – As the Church marked the World Day of the Poor, an archbishop in India spoke about how in one area rich in minerals and forest, the people still suffer from poverty. Archbishop Vincent ...

AHMEDABAD, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hansaben Rasid knows what it is like to live without a water tap or a toilet of her own, constantly fearful of being evicted by city officials keen on ...

Dressed in a crisp white shirt and a pair of khakis, Sukhdeep Singh Bhatia sits in his 8-year-old bright yellow Ford Crown Victoria waiting for a fare. Working 80 hours a week as a cabdriver the ...