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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 (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, ...

These images, taken on a rain-lashed day inside the Indiranagar 3 locality of Dharavi, capture the stubborn heartbeat of Asia's largest slum amid dystopic surroundings. It is where dreams navigate sun ...

MUMBAI: While most of the city tilted decisively in one direction, the Dharavi slum sprawl was among the few areas which voted differently. Of its seven wards, two went to Congress and four were won ...

Dharavi Redevelopment Project CEO, SVR Srinivas, said that the survey has entered its final phase and that the data indicate support from Dharavi residents ...

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 ...