At an academic conference in Mumbai last week, some of us were in two minds when the organizers proposed a tour of Dharavi, the largest slum in Mumbai, made famous by the film Slum Dog Millionaire.

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.

Eligibility for upper-floor residents under the project is partly linked to the status of ground-floor occupants ...

The lanes of Dharavi are long and winding. Spread over roughly 500 acres in the heart of Mumbai, they connect the shanties of this informal settlement, home to about one million people. But Dharavi is ...

Maleesha Kharwa, an 18-year-old from Mumbai's Dharavi slum, has become an international modelling sensation. Spotting her ...

This is the Dharavi slum in the city of Mumbai, India. It identified its first case of the coronavirus on April 2. It is perhaps best known as the setting for the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog ...

Dharavi, a slum in the heart of Mumbai, is home to approximately one million people, making it one of the largest slums in the world. Next month, Dharavi will house the first slum museum, Design ...

Taking to his official handle on X, Athawale, who was accompanied by several associates, shared pictures of his journey and ...

Thousands of residents of Mumbai's Dharavi, widely regarded as Asia’s largest slum, took out a massive protest march on 4 May against the alleged “dubious role” of the Adani Group and the Maharashtra ...

Normally, Khwaja Qureshi’s recycling facility in Dharavi, the slum in Mumbai, would be no place for three newborn tabby kittens. Before efforts to contain the novel coronavirus idled much of the ...

Dharavi corporators have come forward to support DRP in organising documentation camps for single-window verification of ...

MUMBAI, India—Mumbai is simultaneously one of the greenest and least green cities in the world. Monsoon season means lushness—dangerously swaying palm trees dot the cracked sidewalks and overgrown ...