A fire that hit a poor Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia killed five people, four of them children, officials said on Thursday. The town hall in Velky Saris said the blaze destroyed eight houses ...

The Supreme Court recently observed that once a slum area is declared as 'censused slum' i.e., the slums located on land belonging to government or municipal undertaking, than such slums are ...

Victorian purchasing guides contain nominal hour allocations for units of competency and maximum hour allocations for qualifications within training packages. nominal hour allocations for units of ...

Living in a property with mould is linked to various health risks. Mould can affect the immune system and lead to symptoms such as nasal congestion, sneezing, coughing and respiratory infections ...

Except for the privileged few who occupied standalone mansions and the poorest, who crowded into rookeries, most city-dwellers lived in some variation of the same house model. The limited width of ...

Hundreds of roofs in Gujarat's informal settlements have been coated with reflective white paint to combat extreme summer temperatures. The project, involving 400 households in Ahmedabad, aims to ...

Nearly 20 shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Santoshpur Railway Station’s platform number 2 on Sunday, an official said. Three fire engines soon reached the spot, and after a 90-minute ...

New Delhi: Delhi High Court has said a survey may be needed of residents of a slum in the Okhla area facing demolition action by DDA. Refusing to stay the demolition process, HC on Friday ...

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 ...

He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “I live in squalor. It’s like I’m living in the Victorian slums era. I have to double pay – I pay for the rent, and then I’m paying for the hotel, ...