Kolkata: Close to 1,000 dwellers of 220 families of Jhoro Bustee, a slum off Golf Club Road, have moved to the KMDA-built ...

NICE, FranceNICE, France — French writer Dominique Lapierre, who was celebrated for his historical work on the World War II struggle to liberate Paris and a novel depicting a life of hardship in a ...

Residents of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) have criticised a sequence in The Avengers that features the city's slums. In the film, The Hulk's alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner, played by Mark Ruffalo, is seen ...

Eight people were injured as a fire broke out at a slum in south Kolkata's Beltala area on Monday afternoon, officials said. A fire engine managed to put off the flames in an hour, they said. The ...