Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) plan to demolish an alleged illegal mosque section in Dharavi has been halted ...

The plan is for developers to demolish the slum and build apartments on the site, which will be given free of charge to 57,000 families currently living in Dharavi. The incentive? For every 100 sq ...

A large group of residents gathered on the road to protest the BMC's actions, prompting a significant police presence to ...

Protests broke out in Mumbai’s Dharavi on Saturday over the demolition of the 25-year-old Subhania Mosque on 90 Feet Road.

unwashed hair Top Down Aerial View of the Dharavi Slums Next to a Busy Street in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Top down aerial view of the Dharavi slums next to a busy street in Mumbai, Maharashtra, ...

In Dharavi — one of Asia's largest slums — multiple families cram into tiny apartments. The cost of renting a one bedroom apartment in Mumbai averages around $190 per month, which is much ...

Satellite images throw up a sea of flat grey roofs ... “The larger plan is to remove the slum dwellers from Dharavi to different locations and turn Dharavi’s land into an extended BKC (Bandra ...

The slum was the inspiration for the Oscar-winning ... makeshift quarantine will be easily overrun by cases. Getty Images Mumbai (Dharavi in foreground in the picture) is one the most densely ...

Work has begun on 20-25 storey buildings in Matunga for eligible Dharavi residents, with 40,000 tenements surveyed for free ...

Still others defy categorisation. But all coexist in the dynamic ecosystem that is Dharavi. The slum, one of Asia’s largest, occupies over two sq km of prime real estate in India’s financial ...

Images of Dharavi, Mumbai's large slum, and of Rio de Janeiro's favelas flashed by; to Glaeser, they were examples of urban vitality, not blight. Poor people flock to cities because that's where ...

Tensions escalated in Mumbai's Dharavi slum on Saturday when locals protested against the BMC's plan to demolish part of a ...