India's cities are growing fast, but not everyone benefits equally. A large part of the urban population still lives in slums, often without proper sanitation, water, or stable housing. In fact, about ...

A new study from the University of Toronto shows that where a mother lives in an Indian city—in a slum or a non-slum neighborhood—is linked to how she breastfeeds her baby. Breastfeeding within one ...

The "Adolescents' Resilience and Treatment nEeds for Mental Health in Indian Slums" (ARTEMIS) project was implemented by The George Institute for Global Health, India. The study devised a workable ...

CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, where he had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since moving into a public housing project in Mumbai nearly 20 years ago, Parveen Shaikh has grown familiar with the ravages of ...

Mumbai, India (CNN) — When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all ...

A narrow lane in Mumbai city's upmarket Colaba area opens up to a patch of land filled with small concrete cubicles - nooks washermen use to clean and dry the city's laundry. Surrounding the area are ...