Roughly 20% of the 250,000 slum tenements in Mumbai are commercial establishments, concentrated around the eastern and western suburbs, said BMC officials (Satish Bate/HT PHOTO) BMC commissioner ...

I’M LORI BURKHOLDER AND I’M SUSAN SHAPIRO. EIGHT ON YOUR SIDE, POLITICAL REPORTER TOM LEHMAN JOINS US LIVE FROM THE STATE CAPITOL IN HARRISBURG WITH A LOOK AT THIS BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION.

The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to many families for decades The City of ...

In the slums of Wakaliga, on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala, an independent film studio has been defying norms for 20 years. With shoestring budgets, Wakaliwood produces action and ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM)– Pennsylvania cities have been filming locations for some of the most iconic pictures in Hollywood history, with Pittsburgh being the primary filming location for ...

Dhaka's sprawling slums have long been a symbol of hardship, but a worsening crisis is now intensifying the struggles of their residents — the alarming rise of drug addiction. A field visit to various ...

Residents up in arms as civic body declares Christian Gaon a ‘slum’, and its denizens as ‘slum-dwellers’, telling them to participate in a biometric survey Christian Gaon in Kurla West on ...

The Supreme Court has allowed the redevelopment of the Bharat Nagar slum in Bandra East, dismissing appeals from residents who contested its slum status. Despite disputes over the redevelopment ...

So, here’s hoping three recent PennLive articles focused on Harrisburg get serious attention from state and local officials, candidates for mayor and all city voters. They should. The first is a ...

I’m the head of CFK Africa, a nongovernmental organization that empowers youth and fights extreme poverty in Kenyan slums. The sudden dismantling of USAID means lives are being disrupted ...