Indian slums get 'cool roofs' to combat extreme heat
By Amit Dave, Gloria Dickie and Shilpa Jamkhandikar AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of ...
White Roofs, Cool Homes: Ahmedabad’s Slums Ready To Fight The Heat Using THIS Method
A global scientific trial in Ahmedabad is testing "cool roofs" by painting 400 slum homes with reflective white paint to ...
Union Minister Piyush Goyal hands over keys of new homes for 91 slum swellers displaced by road project in Mumbai
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday handed over keys of new homes to 91 slum dwellers displaced by a road project in ...
London Evening Standard11d
'It's like living in a Victorian slum': Tenant's nightmare in 'rat-infested' home -as council issues apology
It’s like I’m living in the Victorian slums era. I have to double pay ... surveyors were sent to the property to examine the condition of the home – however no work was ever carried ...
The Daily Star13d
Livelihoods, dreams reduced to ashes
With her rickshaw-puller husband gone, survival became Renu Begum’s only goal. Poverty forced her to leave Kishoreganj and ...
Construction Week Online India2d
Union Minister Piyush Goyal bolsters rehabilitation efforts for Mumbai’s slum dwellers
A new chapter has begun in the lives of 91 slum dwellers from Mahatma Phule Nagar as they have received their rightful ...
The Telegraph26d
A Kolkata story: A slum with hundreds of people on the terrace of a multistorey building
The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to many families for decades The City of ...
The Print4d
Goyal hands over keys of new homes to 91 slum swellers displaced by road project in Mumbai
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday handed over the keys of new homes to 91 slum dwellers displaced by a road project in Borivali West in North Mumbai. Speaking at the event, the Commerce and ...
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Goyal hands over keys of new homes for 91 slum swellers displaced by road project in Mumbai
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday handed over keys of new homes to 91 slum dwellers displaced by a road project in Borivali West in North Mumbai. Speaking at the event, the Commerce and Industry ...