With over 40 per cent of the city’s population living in slums, data from key wards shows the BJP has emerged as the single largest force in these slum wards in the Mumbai civic body polls.

Young people studying in the library in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The community ...

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A new study suggests that the 'neighbourhood effect' of slums could help to alleviate some of their associated health problems. A team of academics led by Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick ...