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A bench of Justices GS Kulkarni and Arif Doctor restrained the SRA and other authorities from entertaining complaints or ...
When transitioning from living in the slums to living with Joyce’s family, I began to experience my first serious signs of reverse culture shock. I felt guilty to have access to Joyce’s ...
Vomit up the walls, buckets of faeces on the lawn and damp and mouldy inside. These are just some things students are confronted with in their North Dunedin flats. The local students association calls ...
Slums are, therefore, uneconomical to the individuals who live there, but lots of people benefit from them. I lived in a ghetto in Mississippi, USA and had my share of slum life.
“People living in Kenyan slums face depraved living conditions and a rental housing market that is highly exploitative of its tenants.” Talukdar analyzed nearly 1,200 responses from households in the ...
Research suggests that urban slum residents are 35% more likely to be hypertensive than people living in rural areas. In Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city, around 60% of the population lives in ...
Actress Divya Khossla revealed that she lived in a slum in Lucknow to get a better understanding of her role in her upcoming drama “Ek Chatur ...
Oil pipeline blast turns Nairobi slum into an inferno. NAIROBI, Kenya Sept. 12, 2011 -- More than 100 people are feared burned to death in a massive fire that engulfed a crowded slum in the Kenyan ...