French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement on Monday (March 31) and banned immediately for five ...

Marine Le Pen, hitherto the favourite to succeed Emmanuel Macron as French President, has been barred from standing for ...

Multiple cooking gas cylinders in a truck caught fire and exploded on Monday in Mumbai's biggest slum of Dharavi, where hundreds of thousands live in crowded, squalid conditions, local authorities ...

Authorities aim to 'gentrify' Kamagasaki, once Japan's largest day laborer district, by displacing the many homeless who have ...

The Crunchyroll Spring 2025 anime season begins, and the service will bring more than 30 new, returning, and continuing ...

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 ...

A slum colony that could rival the scale of clusters of shanties in Bandra East is quietly mushrooming on railway premises under the nose of Western Railway (WR). The abandoned fifth and sixth ...

Three men from Uttar Pradesh died in a hut fire near AGCR Enclave, Anand Vihar, East Delhi early Tuesday morning. The fire, which started around 2:15 am, was intensified by a gas cylinder explosion.

Former president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested at Manila's international airport on an International Criminal Court warrant, for his role in a deadly drug crackdown that has led to allegations 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 ...

Painters apply liquid-applied membrane (LAM) coating that according to the authorities helps to bring down the temperature inside the shanties at a slum in Ahmedabad, India, January 30, 2025. Photo: ...

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 ...