Can India’s richest man remake Mumbai’s biggest slum? About 250,000, or one in four, residents in the slum are employed by these businesses, which generate an estimated US$1 billion (S$1.35 ...

Fifty years later, that swampy area — once a fishing village and rubbish dump — is now Dharavi, one of Asia’s biggest slums and a bustling hub of industry in India’s financial capital.

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.

Govandi-Mankhurd, which largely makes up M/East ward, has been shaped by a history of neglect and dispossession, a place where people have long been discarded. Life here is a daily struggle in a ...

While the Navbharat Mega Developers Private Limited and the Maharashtra government promise an eco-friendly revamp of Dharavi, ...

Chandigarh: Hundreds were left homeless after the largest slum in the city, Janta Colony, Sector 25, was demolished here on Tuesday. Since the day the estate office pasted the notice of eviction ...

India's Supreme Court on Friday asked billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate to respond to allegations of unfairly winning a bid to redevelop one of Asia's largest slums in Mumbai, with the ...

In the heart of Mumbai's sprawling slum, Dharavi, in its narrow but resilient alleys, one man is stitching dreams into ...

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.