GOPALPUR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every year, Neelabeni and her family await the monsoon with trepidation in their mud-and-brick home in an informal settlement near the coast in the ...

Rouble Nagi, an Indian teacher and activist, won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize for her work in creating over 800 learning centres and painting educational murals in slums. She plans to use the ...

In Gurugram, an upscale suburb just outside Delhi, gleaming SUVs, futuristic skyscrapers and neat apartments stand in stark contrast to nearby mosquito swarms, trash heaps and tarpaulin shanties.

Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one-storey home crammed into a tangle of alleys - Copyright ENGINEER JEROME MARTINEZ/AFP Handout Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one ...

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 ...

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 ...

DELHI, INDIA, August 16, 2023/ EINPresswire.com / -- Gawain, a nonprofit organization located in Tokyo, has implemented their own unique rape prevention methods to 1,000 households / 5,000 women and ...

Almost from the start, Dharavi was defined by its industries: from the traditional potters of Gujarat who began arriving in the late 1800s, to leather tanners from Tamil Nadu and embroidery workers ...