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.

As the Adani-led Dharavi redevelopment advances, residents, workers, and small businesses fear displacement, livelihood loss, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Residents gather around a mobile museum displayed on an improvised handcart in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai, India, February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/Files By Rina Chandran ...

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 ...

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 ambitious Dharavi Redevelopment Project, a unique slum rehabilitation project that aims to provide housing for all, received approval from Maharashtra Chief Minister (CM) Devendra Fadnavis on ...

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 ...

Mumbai: Residents of nearly 7 slum settlements in Sector 6, Dharavi, have been issued a notice to vacate before the monsoon or before the next academic year begins. Sector 6 is on Matunga railway land ...

Survey work for 25,000 tenements has been completed and 60,000 dwellings have been numbered since the exercise began in March this year on the Dharavi redevelopment project, according to the statement ...