Not all men are equal under the patriarchy.

When we think of urban poor, we typically think of people living in slums.It’s not quite as simple.

Police rescued a two-and-half-year-old baby boy from a slum in Narayanganj yesterday, a day after he was abducted from a hospital in Dhaka for ransom.

The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order that issued an injunction on eviction of the Kalyanpur Pora Slum.

Hundreds of low-income families are now living under the sky, after a devastating fire destroyed their homes and all other belongings.

A fire breaks out at Anu-Majhirghat slum in Sadarghat area of Chittagong city.

Around 50 houses of a slum have been gutted and five people injured as a devastating fire broke out at a slum in Fatullah in Narayanganj.

SLUMS are growing seamlessly with one-third of the urban people already living in them.

Most of us live close to each other yet remain dangerously disconnected from our neighbours.

APPROXIMATELY 30 to 45 percent of slum dwellers are ill and 60 percent of their children chronically malnourished.