Born in a battered postwar Leningrad, Putin grew up in communal poverty—wood stoves, shared bathrooms, and a courtyard of garbage where survival meant fighting back. This chapter traces how a volatile ...

A massive fire tore through one of Dhaka’s largest slums on Tuesday evening (November 25, 2025), leaving thousands of people homeless and turning rows of tin-roofed shanties into charred rubble, ...

Hundreds of families in Dhaka’s Korail slum were left homeless and spent a night under the open sky after a devastating fire destroyed hundreds of homes, local residents said. Jahanara Begum, sitting ...

A massive fire tore through one of Dhaka's largest slums on Tuesday evening, leaving thousands of people homeless and turning rows of tin-roofed shanties into charred rubble, officials said. The blaze ...

A fire that broke out in the Korail slum in Dhaka was fully extinguished after 16 hours, according to the Fire Service and Civil Defence Department. The agency confirmed on Wednesday at 9:30am that ...

The Maharashtra Housing Department released a Government Resolution (GR) on November 13, introducing a new approach to slum cluster development in the state. The policy, approved by the Maharashtra ...

To fast-track the redevelopment of Mumbai’s slums and move toward a slum-free city, the Maharashtra government has issued a new order stating that individual slum-dwellers’ consent will no longer be ...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has announced a major step towards creating a slum-free city in Mumbai. In a new decision, the government has issued an order that the consent of individual slum ...

Mumbai: In another attempt to expedite the redevelopment of slums in Mumbai, the state housing department on Thursday issued a govt resolution (GR) detailing the slum cluster redevelopment policy.