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India's deadly terror attacks: What happens when the spotlight fades?

Families who've lost key members to the string of terror attacks that have hit India in recent years struggle to make ends meet, despite government assistance.
In India, even Indians can be 'foreigners'

Mumbai and other Indian cities enact labor restrictions to stem an influx of poor migrant workers.
Difference Maker After seeing Mumbai's slums bulldozed, he now works to save and restore them

Crews once bulldozed thousands of slum homes in Mumbai, a metropolitan region of about 16 million people in India. Santosh Thorat sees a better way: Help residents fix them up.
Megacities of the world: a glimpse of how we'll live tomorrow

By 2050, 7 out of 10 people will live in megacities, offering the benefits of concentrated living but also some of the biggest public-works challenges in human history.
India, China lead in lifting people out of urban slums, UN says

A UN-Habitat report on the state of the world's cities found that 227 million people have moved out of urban slum conditions over the past decade. Half the world's population now lives in cities.