Essentially a research-based, artist-run, non-profit organisation, Brihatta Art Foundation has worked in Dhaka for quite some ...

The ESCAP summit on sustainable development is currently underway in Bangkok, focusing on those urban peripheries so dear to Pope Francis. The complaint: the Asia-Pacific region has the largest housin ...

From the use of the word ‘Harijan’ alone, to the absence of acknowledgement of structural discrimination within Bangladesh ...

A mild earthquake has occurred at Brahmanbaria near Bangladesh-India borders with the tremors travelling to Dhaka. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the quake’s magnitude ...

Earlier on Wednesday, the party announced plans to hold protest and solidarity rallies in the capital Dhaka and all major cities on Thursday. Similar rallies were also held in major cities across the ...

In Telangana, BJP will be taking up a three-day people contact campaign in slums and villages as part of its Foundation Day celebrations starting today. The ‘Gaon Chalo, Basti Chalo’ campaign aims at ...

The incident happened as thousands took to the streets in Sylhet, Chattogram, Khulna, Barishal, Cumilla and Dhaka in solidarity with Palestinians as Israel ramped up its attack on Gaza as a second ...

Landlords Jeff Appenrodt, Shailendra Devdhara, and Kamlesh Patel were fined $810,000 for failing to address slum conditions at three single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels in San Francisco's Chinatown.

In a significant step toward accelerating slum rehabilitation and transforming Maharashtra into a slum-free state, the state cabinet has approved amendments to the Maharashtra Slum Areas ...

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday reiterated her government’s commitment to improving the living conditions of slum residents, announcing a special allocation of Rs 700 crore for slum ...

Mumbai: The state cabinet on Tuesday approved a key amendment to the Maharashtra Slum Area Reform and Rehabilitation Act to accelerate slum rehabilitation in the state and make Maharashtra slum-free.

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Tuesday that the Delhi government is all set to allot 52,000 flats to slum dwellers in the city. The Chief Minister visited her constituency Shalimar Bagh and ...