A woman at Karnani Estate looks at belongings of the displaced family piled up on terrace All pictures by Soumyajit Dey ...

KOLKATA: The slums of Kolkata, which have long been considered one of its special features, are to receive a much-awaited facelift. kolkata: the slums of kolkata, which have long been considered ...

Police on Wednesday afternoon demolished a shanty at the rooftop slum in central Kolkata’s Karnani Estate that started as the servant quarters for the cooks, khansamas and drivers employed by American ...

Kolkata: State- and district-level committees had been formed to carry out fire safety audits, ensure regulatory compliance and draft safety guideline.

Slums proliferated. “What you see in India is that there is an inbuilt inequality at all levels,” said Ashish Avikunthak, a University of Rhode Island professor who grew up in Kolkata.

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 ...

Some of the poorest slums of the city are found here at the cross-section of Kolkata’s central and southern districts in a mix of posh enclaves, malls and restaurants. In a conservative and ...

Editor’s Note: Moni Basu, a reporter for CNN.com, was born in Kolkata, India and returns there every year. On a recent trip home to India, I heard a German man on my flight remark to another ...

Kolkata civic body to demolish newly constructed building in Tangra The KMC brass decided to demolish the newly constructed building first as advised by the KMC-empanelled structural engineer ...

The elevation of the Nobel Prize winner to Catholicism’s celestial pantheon comes on the eve of the 19th anniversary of her death in the Kolkata slums with which she is synonymous. Teresa worked ...