Homeless In Mumbai

The Mumbai police have arrested a man in connection with the death of a 40-year-old homeless woman, whose body was found on the roadside in Sewree last month, an official said on Saturday.

Homelessness is a global issue but people living on streets are also human beings with the same footing as everyone else, the Bombay High Court said on Friday refusing to pass any order directing removal of such persons in south Mumbai.

An eighteen-year-old Mumbai footballer, who was honoured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi about three years ago, has been living on a pavement in the city with her family after her home was razed in a demolition drive last month. In a tweet, BJP MP and Olympian Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore today urged the central government to help her.

It was just one small act of kindness for a policeman in Solapur who fed a homeless old man. And yet, its ripples were felt all the way here in Mumbai, where another cop watched a viral video of the incident and recognised the destitute man as his 90-year-old neighbour, who had gone missing four months ago. Thanks to one cop's compassion, and the o...

A prominent bank in Mumbai is facing massive outrage over its unusual move to put up iron spikes on the pavement outside a branch, to prevent the homeless from sleeping there. Responding to the public anger, especially on social media, the HDFC bank on Tuesday assured that it would remove the spikes outside its new Fort Branch immediately.

At the Behrampada slums in Mumbai's Bandra, thousands of families are spending the night in the open, some by the railway tracks as locals whizzed past them. A huge fire that broke out this afternoon in the slum burnt down their houses, leaving them homeless.

By Rina Chandran Mumbai: Buses and portable cabins are doubling up as shelters for the homeless amidst a cold snap that has killed at least a dozen people, highlighting a critical lack of affordable housing, campaigners said on Tuesday. There are nearly 1 million urban homeless in India, according to official data, although non-profits estimate the...

Actor Salman Khan was today sentenced to five years for killing a homeless man and injuring four others in a hit-and-run in 2002. He has been granted an interim bail till Friday by the Bombay High Court. The news came as a shock to many celebrities who showed their support to the Khan family. Many of them also took to twitter to express their views...

Actor Salman Khan, sentenced to five years for killing a homeless man in a hit-and-run in 2002, will not go to jail for now. He is back home till Friday, when the Bombay High Court will hear his appeal for bail.

As actor Salman Khan was pronounced guilty of running over homeless men sleeping on a pavement in Mumbai in 2002, the man who owned responsibility for the accident, his driver Ashok Singh, was present in court.

Champa, 70, has been living on the road with her four grandchildren outside a train station in Mulund in Eastern Mumbai. They sleep on the pavement; meals are rare.

The National Food Security Bill and its benefits are being debated in the country but they have little meaning for Sonabai Patni's family of five, who lives under a plastic sheet in South Central Mumbai's Elphinstone area.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi is visiting trouble-torn districts of lower Assam today. 77 people have died and 400,000 people were rendered homeless; many of them are still living in crowded, filthy relief camps. Mrs Gandhi's party is in power in Assam and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has come in for much criticism for his handling of the rioting a...

Catastrophe struck for 32-odd families residing at Ganpati Sadan in Tardeo on Thursday -- they were rendered homeless within a matter of seconds, as flames engulfed their homes. The fire caused a cylinder to burst, which eventually claimed the life of 65-year-old Arvind Phansekar. Eleven others were injured in the mishap and rushed to Nair Hospital...

Mumbai's footpaths, swarming with the homeless, have been forced to make place for more guests. As hundreds of young candidates, driven by dreams of donning a khaki uniform, pour into the city to bag a spot in the Mumbai police, the abysmal lack of essential amenities has forced them to stare the grating reality of the city -- scarcity, unaffordabl...

The Mumbai police have arrested a man in connection with the death of a 40-year-old homeless woman, whose body was found on the roadside in Sewree last month, an official said on Saturday.

Homelessness is a global issue but people living on streets are also human beings with the same footing as everyone else, the Bombay High Court said on Friday refusing to pass any order directing removal of such persons in south Mumbai.

An eighteen-year-old Mumbai footballer, who was honoured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi about three years ago, has been living on a pavement in the city with her family after her home was razed in a demolition drive last month. In a tweet, BJP MP and Olympian Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore today urged the central government to help her.

It was just one small act of kindness for a policeman in Solapur who fed a homeless old man. And yet, its ripples were felt all the way here in Mumbai, where another cop watched a viral video of the incident and recognised the destitute man as his 90-year-old neighbour, who had gone missing four months ago. Thanks to one cop's compassion, and the o...

A prominent bank in Mumbai is facing massive outrage over its unusual move to put up iron spikes on the pavement outside a branch, to prevent the homeless from sleeping there. Responding to the public anger, especially on social media, the HDFC bank on Tuesday assured that it would remove the spikes outside its new Fort Branch immediately.

At the Behrampada slums in Mumbai's Bandra, thousands of families are spending the night in the open, some by the railway tracks as locals whizzed past them. A huge fire that broke out this afternoon in the slum burnt down their houses, leaving them homeless.

By Rina Chandran Mumbai: Buses and portable cabins are doubling up as shelters for the homeless amidst a cold snap that has killed at least a dozen people, highlighting a critical lack of affordable housing, campaigners said on Tuesday. There are nearly 1 million urban homeless in India, according to official data, although non-profits estimate the...

Actor Salman Khan was today sentenced to five years for killing a homeless man and injuring four others in a hit-and-run in 2002. He has been granted an interim bail till Friday by the Bombay High Court. The news came as a shock to many celebrities who showed their support to the Khan family. Many of them also took to twitter to express their views...

Actor Salman Khan, sentenced to five years for killing a homeless man in a hit-and-run in 2002, will not go to jail for now. He is back home till Friday, when the Bombay High Court will hear his appeal for bail.

As actor Salman Khan was pronounced guilty of running over homeless men sleeping on a pavement in Mumbai in 2002, the man who owned responsibility for the accident, his driver Ashok Singh, was present in court.

Champa, 70, has been living on the road with her four grandchildren outside a train station in Mulund in Eastern Mumbai. They sleep on the pavement; meals are rare.

The National Food Security Bill and its benefits are being debated in the country but they have little meaning for Sonabai Patni's family of five, who lives under a plastic sheet in South Central Mumbai's Elphinstone area.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi is visiting trouble-torn districts of lower Assam today. 77 people have died and 400,000 people were rendered homeless; many of them are still living in crowded, filthy relief camps. Mrs Gandhi's party is in power in Assam and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has come in for much criticism for his handling of the rioting a...

Catastrophe struck for 32-odd families residing at Ganpati Sadan in Tardeo on Thursday -- they were rendered homeless within a matter of seconds, as flames engulfed their homes. The fire caused a cylinder to burst, which eventually claimed the life of 65-year-old Arvind Phansekar. Eleven others were injured in the mishap and rushed to Nair Hospital...

Mumbai's footpaths, swarming with the homeless, have been forced to make place for more guests. As hundreds of young candidates, driven by dreams of donning a khaki uniform, pour into the city to bag a spot in the Mumbai police, the abysmal lack of essential amenities has forced them to stare the grating reality of the city -- scarcity, unaffordabl...