MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian billionaire Gautam Adani aims to convert Mumbai's Dharavi slum into a modern city hub, while acknowledging that resettling its 1 million residents will be a challenging task.

Home to nearly a million people, Dharavi is a contradiction: economically vital yet lacking in infrastructure and decent living standards. Leather units, garment factories and pottery clusters drive ...

In a surprising turn of events, Dharavi's election results bucked the larger city patterns, with Congress and Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena UBT clinching the majority of seats. Meanwhile, the ...

STORY: The Dharavi slum in India's Mumbai is home to one million people - making it one of the world's biggest. It has a complicated history dating back to the 1800s. Now a plan to overhaul the area ...

When Jagdish Makkunny Thaivalapill boarded a train from Thrissur to Bombay (now Mumbai) more than four decades ago, the ...

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Of the seven electoral wards in the sprawling slum settlement, four have been won by Shiv Sena (UBT) candidates, two by the Congress, and one by the Shiv Sena, an ally in the BJP-led Mahayuti governme ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Residents of Mumbai's sprawling Dharavi slum face down a powerful politician eyeing their community for a real estate development in the blockbuster "Kaala", ...

MUMBAI – Veteran filmmaker Shekhar Kapur is set to launch an AI-focused film school in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum district. According to Variety, the initiative builds on Kapur’s long-running work with The ...

MUMBAI, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farhana Shaikh used to recoil in disgust when she went to the communal toilet in Dharavi. But since the pandemic struck, efforts to fight COVID-19 have ...