With emphasis on women-centric projects, the city’s slum areas are slated for an infrastructural development in the next fiscal.

The residents of the Karnani Estate terrace are living in a slum which they realise but do not want to accept... Calcutta's iconic multistorey building — the Karnani Estate — is opposite the prominent ...

Slums have been replaced with highrises constructed by the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority ... that is slums with the Bengali word Uttaran (uplift). While the Kolkata Municipal ...

KOLKATA: One person died in a blaze that gutted at least 30 shanties in Narkeldanga area of the metropolis ... Meanwhile, after Hakim left, a section of the slum dwellers shouted slogans against ...

I inquired about her shortly before the publication of this story and learned that her slum has been bulldozed to make way for a high-rise residential building. Flats in that part of Kolkata can ...

Kolkata: A day after tensions flared up at Narkeldanga ... Back at the site, more than two days after the fire at the slum on Canal (West) Road, the beleaguered families struggled to begin life ...

Seventeen fire tenders fought the blaze for over five hours to contain the flames which were first spotted at around 10 pm on Saturday and fully extinguished at around 3 am on Sunday.