CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, where he had ...

CHENNAI: An IT employee died by suicide at a Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) tenement on Ambattur-Athipattu Main Road ...

Chennai: Social activist Geetha R stands at the entrance of a crumbling old building at Pursaiwalkam in Chennai. Before the 74-year-old begins her day’s work, fighting for the cause of unorganised ...

NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old boy from Delhi’s Rohini, unwilling to take his final exams, left home and travelled over 2,000 kilometres in Tamil Nadu to work as a labourer at a construction site and was ...

The Chennai Corporation has taken up development works worth Rs 127 crore in various slums across the city under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewable Mission of the Central Government.