The Maharashtra government on Thursday decided to allot land in Mumbai’s Deonar to 436 slum dwellers affected by a fire in Dharavi, offering them relief 27 years after the tragedy. The decision was ...

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.

In Mumbai's Dharavi, poverty is being curated, priced and sold to dollar-rich visitors. Slum tourism has been around in India for decades, but there is a thin line between giving context, and ...

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 ...

MUMBAI, Jan 26 (Reuters) - A firm led by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani will start in February to collect the data and biometrics of up to 1 million poor residents as part of the redevelopment of a ...

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 towers of Mumbai have seen kilometres of expanse of Dharavi's asbestos and tin roofs for decades. Most pity the slums as a place that is deprived of the basics, while others romanticise them. As ...

While child labour in hazardous industries triggers immediate legal action, garment units classified as “non-hazardous” fall into loopholes. Children aged 14 to 18 years are legally allowed to work ...

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 ...