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.

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 ...

In 2016, the World Economic Forum reported that Dharavi in Mumbai, India, was one of the largest slums in the world, with an estimated population count of 1 million.

MUMBAI, Dec 20 (Reuters) - An Indian court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the award of a contract to Adani Group to revamp one of Asia's largest slums in Mumbai, clearing one of the ...

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 ...

Mumbai, India (CNN) — 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 ...

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.

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.