Josnra Bibi's daughter, son-in-law and grandson, who claim to be natives of Birbhum district, were picked up from their Delhi home and forced into Bangladesh. The elderly woman remains in the slum in ...

DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For much of his early life on Bhola, an island in south-central Bangladesh, Mohammed Abul Kalam battled poverty and a hostile river that twice engulfed his ...

Every morning, Shakuntala Devi and Shakiba Bibi - neighbours at a slum in India's capital Delhi - leave their homes, walking from one shop to another in search of a cooking gas cylinder. For three ...

A sense of anxiety grips Rangpuri Pahari, a slum in India's capital Delhi. The neighbourhood houses thousands of migrant workers who have lived hand-to-mouth for decades, mostly employed in the ...

Residents at this slum, mostly poor migrants from Bengal who work as daily wage earners, domestic workers and ragpickers, are facing multiple problems after electricity was disconnected on July 8 ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the lowest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of slum populations, you can directly go to 5 ...