Mumbai: A 60-year-old man from Dharavi was arrested on Tuesday for raping a 15-year-old girl and threatening her on knife point with an acid attack if she told anyone Mumbai: A 60-year-old man ...

“My ancestors moved here from Gujarat when there was no basti (slum). It was an empty piece of land with grasses that grew to my height during the rains,” she remembers, of the 1950s ...

Mumbai: The construction of housing for non-eligible Dharavi residents on salt pan lands will commence concurrently with the building of rehabilitation units for eligible residents in Dharavi.

The NGOs have written to Dharavi Redevelopment Project/Slum Rehabilitation Authority (DRP/SRA), a government of Maharashtra body overseeing the USD 3-billion redevelopment project being executed by ...

The ambitious project to redevelop Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, is encountering significant obstacles. According to a government official, the joint venture led by billionaire Gautam ...

The CSDW, which has branded itself as Dharavi Banao Andolan, met with Srinivas to push for expedited progress.The survey, ...

Keeping with the spirit of the Ganpati festival, the Dharavi Redevelopment Project Pvt Ltd (DRPPL) made financial contributions to 250 mandals in Dharavi, which carry out social welfare activities.

Mumbai: There will be no bhoomipujan (groundbreaking ceremony) of Dharavi redevelopment project (DRP). In the face of fierce opposition from the all-party Dharavi Rescue Movement (DRM), Dharavi ...

Dharavi's redevelopment began with a puja, led by DRPPL. Eligible residents will receive larger homes, while ineligible ones will be housed in new townships. MUMBAI: A low-key ceremony on Thursday ...

Mumbai: The first-ever Dharavi job fair has received a good response with 1,800 aspirants walking in for direct interviews at the event. While 150 of them were able to bag job offers, 350 have ...

The Dharavi slum, about three-quarters of the size of New York's Central Park, featured in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning 2008 movie "Slumdog Millionaire". Its open sewers and shared toilets ...