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Delhi BJP's Protest Outside AAP Leaders' Homes Over Alleged Liquor Scam
The BJP's Delhi unit led a protest of slum-dwellers, auto drivers, and senior citizens near the residences of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers, demanding Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's dismissal over the alleged liquor scam.
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Vaccination Camp In Agra Graveyard Gets 90 Slum-Dwellers Inoculated
A special COVID-19 vaccination camp was organised on Tuesday by Agra's health department for squatters living in a graveyard in the city.
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Biggest Challenge To Dharavi Is Dharavi Itself: COVID-19 In Mumbai Slum
The 125,000 slum-dwellers living under a lockdown so strict that drones monitor their moves and alert police if they attempt to leave home are some of the measures to contain the coronavirus.
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Congress Leader Milind Deora Pings Sonia Gandhi On Rahul Gandhi's Mumbai Poll Promise
Congress leader Milind Deora has written to party chief Sonia Gandhi expressing concern over Rahul Gandhi's 2019 poll promise of allotting 500 sq ft homes to Mumbai slum-dwellers not moving "effectively" towards implementation under the new dispensation in Maharashtra.
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Mumbai Slum-Dwellers By The Sea Live At The Mercy Of Climate Change
Already at risk from rains, flooding and open sewers, slum-dwellers who live by the ocean in the Indian financial capital Mumbai are vulnerable to rising seas caused by global warming and say the government should help them move to safer locations.
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Focus On Malnutrition Among Urban Poor, Migrants: Centre To States
The Centre has asked states to focus on tackling malnutrition among slum-dwellers and migrant population in urban areas during a month-long campaign under the government''s flagship nutrition scheme Poshan Abhiyaan.
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Rahul Gandhi Promises 500 Sq Ft Houses For Mumbai Slums If Voted To Power
Congress president Rahul Gandhi announced on Friday that his party would give 500 sq ft houses to slum-dwellers in Mumbai within 10 days if voted to power in the Lok Sabha elections.
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Amit Shah Listens To PM Narendra Modi's 'Mann Ki Baat' With Slum-Dwellers
BJP president Amit Shah and other party leaders today joined the slum-dwellers of Ravidas Ashram as they together listened to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Mann ki Baat' radio programme.
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Magsaysay Awardee's NGO On Mumbai Municipal Corporation's Blacklist
The Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has blacklisted an NGO connected with well-known global slum-dwellers' activist and Magsaysay laureate Jockin Arputham, a Right To Information (RTI) query has revealed.
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Sachin Tendulkar Bats For Basic Amenities of Slum-Dwellers
Sachin Tendulkar met Bombay Municipal Corporation to find long-term solutions to the problems related to health and lack of basic amenities being faced by slum-dwellers
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Sachin Tendulkar Bats For Deonar Ground Residents, Writes To Civic Body
Batting for the Deonar residents, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to find long-term solutions to the problems, related to health and lack of basic amenities, faced by slum-dwellers residing near the waste dumping ground.
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Slum-Dwellers Around Mumbai Airport To Be Resettled In Same Area: Devendra Fadnavis
Slum-dwellers occupying land around Mumbai's international airport will be rehabilitated in the same region, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told the Legislative Assembly in Nagpur today.
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Relief to Slum Dwellers Would Embolden Encroachers, Delhi Government Tells High Court
The Delhi High Court was told today that granting relief to slum-dwellers of Rangpuri Pahadi here, who are facing eviction, would embolden the encroachers and will adversely affect efforts of the forest department to protect the Ridge land.
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For Mumbai's slum-dwellers, votes are the only 'weapons' they have
Various parties have been promising them better amenities and offering cash hand-outs for attendance at rallies.
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Case against Karnataka Law Minister Suresh Kumar for allegedly denotifying land meant for slum-dwellers
Spelling fresh trouble for Karnataka's ruling BJP, police today booked a case against Law Minister S Suresh Kumar and two others for allegedly denotifying over four acres meant for construction of houses for slum dwellers.
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Delhi BJP's Protest Outside AAP Leaders' Homes Over Alleged Liquor Scam
The BJP's Delhi unit led a protest of slum-dwellers, auto drivers, and senior citizens near the residences of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers, demanding Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's dismissal over the alleged liquor scam.
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Vaccination Camp In Agra Graveyard Gets 90 Slum-Dwellers Inoculated
A special COVID-19 vaccination camp was organised on Tuesday by Agra's health department for squatters living in a graveyard in the city.
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Biggest Challenge To Dharavi Is Dharavi Itself: COVID-19 In Mumbai Slum
The 125,000 slum-dwellers living under a lockdown so strict that drones monitor their moves and alert police if they attempt to leave home are some of the measures to contain the coronavirus.
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Congress Leader Milind Deora Pings Sonia Gandhi On Rahul Gandhi's Mumbai Poll Promise
Congress leader Milind Deora has written to party chief Sonia Gandhi expressing concern over Rahul Gandhi's 2019 poll promise of allotting 500 sq ft homes to Mumbai slum-dwellers not moving "effectively" towards implementation under the new dispensation in Maharashtra.
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Mumbai Slum-Dwellers By The Sea Live At The Mercy Of Climate Change
Already at risk from rains, flooding and open sewers, slum-dwellers who live by the ocean in the Indian financial capital Mumbai are vulnerable to rising seas caused by global warming and say the government should help them move to safer locations.
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Focus On Malnutrition Among Urban Poor, Migrants: Centre To States
The Centre has asked states to focus on tackling malnutrition among slum-dwellers and migrant population in urban areas during a month-long campaign under the government''s flagship nutrition scheme Poshan Abhiyaan.
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Rahul Gandhi Promises 500 Sq Ft Houses For Mumbai Slums If Voted To Power
Congress president Rahul Gandhi announced on Friday that his party would give 500 sq ft houses to slum-dwellers in Mumbai within 10 days if voted to power in the Lok Sabha elections.
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Amit Shah Listens To PM Narendra Modi's 'Mann Ki Baat' With Slum-Dwellers
BJP president Amit Shah and other party leaders today joined the slum-dwellers of Ravidas Ashram as they together listened to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Mann ki Baat' radio programme.
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Magsaysay Awardee's NGO On Mumbai Municipal Corporation's Blacklist
The Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has blacklisted an NGO connected with well-known global slum-dwellers' activist and Magsaysay laureate Jockin Arputham, a Right To Information (RTI) query has revealed.
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Sachin Tendulkar Bats For Basic Amenities of Slum-Dwellers
Sachin Tendulkar met Bombay Municipal Corporation to find long-term solutions to the problems related to health and lack of basic amenities being faced by slum-dwellers
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Sachin Tendulkar Bats For Deonar Ground Residents, Writes To Civic Body
Batting for the Deonar residents, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to find long-term solutions to the problems, related to health and lack of basic amenities, faced by slum-dwellers residing near the waste dumping ground.
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Slum-Dwellers Around Mumbai Airport To Be Resettled In Same Area: Devendra Fadnavis
Slum-dwellers occupying land around Mumbai's international airport will be rehabilitated in the same region, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told the Legislative Assembly in Nagpur today.
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Relief to Slum Dwellers Would Embolden Encroachers, Delhi Government Tells High Court
The Delhi High Court was told today that granting relief to slum-dwellers of Rangpuri Pahadi here, who are facing eviction, would embolden the encroachers and will adversely affect efforts of the forest department to protect the Ridge land.
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For Mumbai's slum-dwellers, votes are the only 'weapons' they have
Various parties have been promising them better amenities and offering cash hand-outs for attendance at rallies.
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Case against Karnataka Law Minister Suresh Kumar for allegedly denotifying land meant for slum-dwellers
Spelling fresh trouble for Karnataka's ruling BJP, police today booked a case against Law Minister S Suresh Kumar and two others for allegedly denotifying over four acres meant for construction of houses for slum dwellers.
