Mumbai: With less than two months to go, the state govt has met only 25% of its target of building 1.5 lakh slum rehab tenements from 2022-25. Only 37,560 tenements were completed and occupation ...

It was historically part of a sprawling Victorian slum once described by philosopher Friedrich Engels as "the vilest and most dangerous slum" of the Industrial Revolution. But it is now the focus of a ...

Plans have been submitted to turn a Victorian office block and workshop in Nottingham into student accommodation. The three-storey block, on Ayr Street, was owned by Nottingham City Council before it ...

Wealthy doctors, engineers and working class people all lived in the "slums" of Victorian era Manchester, new research has revealed. The study by Cambridge University Historian, Emily Chung, used data ...

Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, undermining key assumptions about the Industrial Revolution. Historians ...

An 1838 print showing people in and outside a terraced house in Manchester, above and below street level. Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than ‘residential ...

The British period piece, now streaming in the U.S., is set in Victorian England but speaks to modern experiences and attitudes. Editor’s Note: A version of this story also appeared in The Good, the ...

Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Tuesday set aside the state's acquisition of a prime suburban private land in Goregaon East, which was declared a slum under the Slum Act. The HC drew the state's ...

The Maharashtra Cabinet has approved a scheme to redevelop Mumbai's slums into integrated housing projects, aiming to improve living conditions and urban infrastructure. Additionally, a state-wide ...

Planned as a ‘city within a city’, with new roads, green zones and modern facilities High-rise buildings tower over the densely packed homes of Dharavi, Mumbai’s sprawling slum settlement, in this ...

MAHARASHTRA : I am terribly missing my father, who was against my schooling. He had a different and very dogmatic view that teaching girls means no use; it’s better to get them married and live a ...