The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a storied landmark in the heart of the Bengal capital is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to ...

Kolkata, India (CNN) — Not far from the place I once called home stands one of India's glitziest shopping malls. By day, the massive building ... of life inside a Mumbai slum.

“We are not going to appreciate these vertical slums. Buildings constructed are so congested ... lose sight of social and ground realities in India and Mumbai and a mechanism has to be developed ...

The dead and the injured were mostly residents of an adjoining slum; at least two of them were labourers working on construction of the building. Building promoter Md Wasim alias Wasi was held and ...