Police on Wednesday afternoon demolished a shanty at the rooftop slum in central Kolkata’s Karnani Estate that started as the servant quarters for the cooks, khansamas and drivers employed by American ...

Md Riyazuddin, the TMC councillor from Ward No 4 in Bengal’s Titagarh town, was arrested along with two of his associates ...

Whenever they went to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) for mutation or for a building, the KMC asked them first to obtain the certificate,” said the official. Hakim said there were 3,079 ...

The National Library of India (NLI) marked World Book Day with ... The inspiring film tells the real-life story of a young girl from the slums of Bhopal who brings about change in her community ...

CBRE South Asia Pvt Ltd, the world’s leading real estate consulting firm, on Monday announced it has launched 2025 CSR initiatives under the ‘Ek Pehal’ program, focusing on migrant construction ...

As the centre of India’s demographic gravity shifts towards its bursting cities, it must make a choice that will determine the fate of its transition journey— between sustainable growth and environmen ...

In December, she departed for India, arriving in Calcutta on 6 January 1929 ... On 21 December she went for the first time to the slums. She visited families, washed the sores of some children ...

Several under-privileged girls have started playing kabbadi, under the project conceptualised by Praajak and Terre des hommes ...

At a time when global tensions dominate headlines, the new exhibition at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art seeks to ...

My grandfather was a devoted, if not particularly gifted, gardener. Our terrace was lined with earthenware pots where ...