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 ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A joint-venture led by billionaire Gautam Adani is struggling to secure land to rehabilitate poor residents of one of Asia's largest slums in Mumbai, a government official said, ...

The Congress party achieved a significant victory in the BMC elections by winning the Dharavi ward, marking its first ...

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents like Bipinkumar Padaya. "I was born here, my father was born here, my ...

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

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: For the slum residents of Dharavi, this election was personal. With a large number of them facing relocation to the edges of Mumbai as part of the mega-redevelopment plan being rolled out, ...

Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one-storey home crammed into a tangle of alleys - Copyright ENGINEER JEROME MARTINEZ/AFP Handout Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one ...