West Bengal's election focus has dramatically shifted. Massive deletions from electoral rolls have transformed the campaign. Issues of corr...

Eligible families in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, are denied housing benefits. Decades of occupancy on railway land disqualify them from...

The BJP plans to combat 'Love Jihad' and 'Land Jihad' if it wins the West Bengal assembly polls. Party leader Samik Bhattacharya described ...

India will conduct a nationwide survey on urban slums in 2027. This survey will gather detailed information on living conditions in these s...

The Election Commission has expressed serious concern over the West Bengal CEO's office delay in proposing new polling booths in high-rise ...

An Election Commission team is set to visit Bengal soon. They will review voter list revision work. A major concern is that many urban vote...

The Centre-run AAI has filed FIRs with the West Bengal Police to remove the encroachers from the land, the officials told PTI.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday visited a gutted slum in north Kolkata's Bagbazar area and assured the dwellers that...

As part of the project slums in Darjeeling that are not connected to normal water supply will get access to water for drinking and washing ...

We have done similar projects in the past that include the likes of Ashray in Jaipur, a EWS project under Rajasthan government in 2013, sai...

Gujarat has become the first state in the country to take up public-private partnership projects for in-situ redevelopment of slums in urba...

Several parts of Kolkata were waterlogged following heavy overnight rain owing to a depression over Bay of Bengal caused by cyclone Komen, ...

No slum population has been reported in Manipur, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu and Lakshdweep in 2011, Naidu said.

It said 33,510 slums were estimated to be in the urban areas of the country of which 41 per cent were notified.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said the Left would not allow eviction of slum dwellers by realtors for setting up malls and buildings.

Approximately 68 million Indians are living in slums, according to a government census.

The select individuals with minimal or no education will have access to new economic opportunities and chisel their entrepreneur skills.