But up to a million slum dwellers in the economic capital Mumbai are set for upheaval as the city is poised for a radical makeover Five years after the regional government announced its intention ...

Of the nearly 7,000 blood samples taken from people in Mumbai’s slums, 57% tested positive for coronavirus antibodies. Scientists believe it’s likely that recovering from coronavirus leaves a ...

Another, nine stories shorter and with fewer amenities, will house around 210 families now living in the slums. Their current living space, about 78 square feet each, will more than quadruple. It is ...

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.

Dharavi, in central Mumbai, is considered one of the largest slums in Asia, but deep within this neighborhood, below the shanty grey roofs, loosely comprised of scavenged, upcycled metal ...

India is reportedly attempting to cover up slum areas in the financial capital of Mumbai so the city’s glaring economic inequalities can be hidden amid a three-day international meeting taking ...

MUMBAI—The glass-and-steel high rises that ... A vertical building binge in the city’s sprawling slums—fueled by soaring land prices and a flood of migrants from the hinterland—is turning ...

In a narrow alley in Dharavi slum in Mumbai, sewing machines hum as workers in Abdul Kadir Ansari’s small tailoring workshop turn out garments for women. Ansari aspires to develop his four-year ...

There are a variety of factors that contribute to why Mumbai has so many slums. These include a large influx of migrants into the city, limited housing availability, high rental costs, and poverty ...

Around 70% of Mumbai’s landslide-prone areas are in informal settlements with higher land surface temperatures ... 200 overlapped with slums or informal settlements. In August 2021, two ...