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 ...

Provincial police spokesperson Sgt Wesley Twigg said Khayelitsha police registered a murder and three attempted murder cases for investigation following a shooting incident in which a 55-year-old man ...

The Bombay High Court last month began a first-of-its-kind review of a legislation. The law in question, The Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971, deals with the ...

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The Supreme Court has allowed the redevelopment of the Bharat Nagar slum in Bandra East, dismissing appeals from residents who contested its slum status. Despite disputes over the redevelopment ...

"He started working as a labourer at a construction site near Tamil Nadu and Karnataka border. When the team found him, he was residing in a slum near the construction site," said the DCP.

The Supreme Court Thursday cleared the decks for the redevelopment of the Bharat Nagar slum in Bandra (East) by dismissing an appeal filed by residents against the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) ...

Stock image. CAPE TOWN - A fifty-five-year-old man has been killed and three others wounded in a suspected minibus taxi-related shooting in Khayelitsha's Site C earlier on Friday. Police ...

CAPE TOWN - Police have arrested three suspects following a tip-off about a group of people breaking into houses in Makhaza, in Khayelitsha. The arrests were made by members of the Makhaza ...

In the slums of Wakaliga, on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala, an independent film studio has been defying norms for 20 years. With shoestring budgets, Wakaliwood produces action and ...

From the rooftop of a Rio de Janeiro slum, amid sheet after sheet of corrugated iron, one man reclines amid succulents and ficus. His name is Luis Cassiano Silva, and he is the progenitor of the ...

Mumbai: State housing board Mhada and the SRA (Slum Rehabilitation Authority) will expedite work on 17 slum redevelopment projects involving 25,000 homes being undertaken in joint partnership.