Experts have repeatedly mentioned crucial reforms: accessible roads, safer construction materials, proper electrical maintenance, and, most importantly, community-based first-response teams trained ...

An Exploratory Case study of Korail Slum in Dhaka'. The study found that the slum communities came to the city from different districts and that the earliest inhabitants came from Cumilla district, ...

In November 2020, Sanjida Ahmed Sinthia from Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology (AUST) published a case study on Korail slum in the International Journal of Urban and Civil Engineering.

Hearing her cries, a boy aged 14-15 from a neighbouring room rushed in and managed to rescue her. He first put her in her wheelchair and then carefully pushed her to safety, despite the danger around ...

For patients in informal settlements, the fight against cancer is lost not in hospitals, but in their cramped, polluted and ...

Fresh questions have emerged over the presence of Bangladeshi nationals in Bhubaneswar after both the Centre and the Odisha ...

To fast-track the redevelopment of Mumbai’s slums and move toward a slum-free city, the Maharashtra government has issued a new order stating that individual slum-dwellers’ consent will no longer be ...

In a major policy shift aimed at accelerating Mumbai's transformation into a slum-free city, the Maharashtra government has announced that individual consent from slum dwellers will no longer be ...

Donald Trump knows that the Roaring ’20s was a time of great opulence for the upper class. He ignores, however, that those years were marked by corruption, gangsters, child labor, slum living ...

A self-professed "benefit Queen" who lies to the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP) Jobcentres to avoid works says she happily spends taxpayers money "on McDonald’s". Ebony claimed she doesn't ...