Of the seven electoral wards in the sprawling slum settlement, four have been won by Shiv Sena (UBT) candidates, two by the ...

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.

Mumbai, Dec 30: As Mumbai struggles with severe land scarcity and overcrowded housing, 256 acres of underutilised salt pan land in the eastern suburbs have emerged as a critical component of the ...

With the survey for the Dharavi redevelopment project nearing completion, construction for the rehabilitation phase has already commenced. According to official data, the authorities have completed ...

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 ...

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.

Residents of Nehru Nagar in Kurla East have been livid since Thursday morning when they learned that the Maharashtra government has sanctioned rehabilitating Dharavi slum dwellers on the green, ...

MUMBAI, Oct 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Malik Abdullah's plastic recycling business in Dharavi, the sprawling slum in Mumbai that is among the largest in Asia, has survived fire, building ...

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 ...