MUMBAI, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farhana Shaikh used to recoil in disgust when she went to the communal toilet in Dharavi. But since the pandemic struck, efforts to fight COVID-19 have ...

AHMEDABAD, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hansaben Rasid knows what it is like to live without a water tap or a toilet of her own, constantly fearful of being evicted by city officials keen on ...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — The two teenage girl cousins had walked out together at night, as they did every night, into the wild bamboo fields 10 or 15 minutes from their mud-and-straw huts to relieve ...

Country buoyed by vibrant business world but hamstrung by corrupt government. Television cables and a receiving dish are seen on the roofs of the makeshift homes in a slum in Mumbai, India. MUMBAI, ...

Slum inhabitants are living in spaces that are overcrowded, unplanned, and without equitable access to transportation, water, and sanitation. Without the infrastructure or the resources for household ...

As the people living in a densely populated slum here begin their morning chores, drawing water for their animals and sweeping out the dust that has settled overnight, hundreds of student volunteers ...

Residents can use Google’s plus codes to direct deliveries and medical care to their front doors. Fourteen-year-old Neha Dashrath was ecstatic when the pizza arrived. It was the first time she’d ever ...

Despite an initial global decline in slum populations at the start of the millennium, 190 million people are estimated to live in informal settlements throughout South Asia. And with India on track to ...

Even with three years to go, the civic body will have to build at least 100 toilet seats a day to meet BJP’s Swachh Bharat goal. There are, according to the BMC’s own estimate, 79,542 toilet seats in ...

Since its launch in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Mission has built 11 crore individual toilets and 2.33 ...

India's once-a-decade census has turned up some striking numbers: The population grew this past decade by 181 million — that's the total population of Brazil. India now has more than 1.2 billion ...