In fire-affected slums of Kolkata, residents fear exclusion from electoral rolls due to lost identity documents. The ongoing electoral verification drive has intensified anxiety, leaving many worried ...

For hundreds who have constructed makeshift homes with tarpaulin sheets, tin plates or whatever remained after the fire incidents, the loss of identity documents is proving far harder a hit than ...

Kolkata: From a scramble for documents to get the forms filled out, residents of Basanti Colony, off the Ultadanga railway ...

Media outlets are racking up millions of views by confronting slum residents and accusing them of being Bangladeshi ...

Amlan Ganguly is a visionary. This lawyer-turned-community activist is not only changing a neighborhood, but also changing the way its youngest residents envision their lives. In this character-driven ...

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

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 ...

A women’s organisation has been organising camps in Calcutta slums and in villages in neighbouring districts to help women ...

While the superhero film has opened well in India, members of the Indian film industry and others have expressed dismay about its slum scenes depicting Kolkata. By Nyay Bhushan NEW DELHI – The opening ...

KOLKATA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's not easy giving directions when you live in a slum. All his life, Dipak Roy had identified his home as the one on the corner, down the third by-lane, ...

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The opening scenes of "The Avengers" -- showing Hulk's alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner in hiding in Kolkata's slums helping cure lepers -- has faced some criticism in India. “Kolkata has a rich culture and ...