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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.

The project, one of the largest slum redevelopment initiatives in the world, released its first eligibility list last year, showing that over 75 per cent of tenement holders qualify for new homes ...

In a surprising turn of events, Dharavi's election results bucked the larger city patterns, with Congress and Uddhav ...

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

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.

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Mumbai, 21 May: The Dharavi Redevelopment Plan is full of big ideas and infrastructure-related surprises, but one that could prove to be a gamechanger is the introduction of a multi-modal transport ...

MUMBAI, INDIA — Reincarnation is Kallu Khan’s stock in trade. His workshop floor is a swamp of cardboard strips hacked from salvaged boxes. Laborers scoop them up, work them over and give them new ...

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 ...