The popularity of Danny Boyle’s recent film, Slumdog Millionaire has led to a surge of media interest in the Mumbai slum of Dharavi which is partially depicted in the film. An important part of many ...

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.

A walk through Latur Galli in Mumbai's Dharavi is not for the faint-hearted. The passage to Basavraj Swami's 70 square feet home involves ducking iron beams, sidestepping covered drains disguised as ...

Survey work for 25,000 tenements has been completed and 60,000 dwellings have been numbered since the exercise began in March this year on the Dharavi redevelopment project, according to the statement ...

A bench of Justices M S Karnik and S M Modak held that the challenge was belated and could not be entertained, particularly since the planning proposal for Dharavi had already been sanctioned in 2016 ...

Normally, Khwaja Qureshi’s recycling facility in Dharavi, the slum in Mumbai, would be no place for three newborn tabby kittens. Before efforts to contain the novel coronavirus idled much of the ...

AROUND 6am, the squealing of copulating rats—signalling a night-long verminous orgy on the rooftops of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai—gives way to the more cheerful sound of chirruping sparrows. Through a ...

MUMBAI: When he stepped into Sudheer Rajbhar’s studio on Thursday, Rahul Gandhi wanted to know everything about the design brand, its moment in the sun when pop star Rihanna draped herself across one ...

Mumbai ANC detained a Dharavi resident under the PIT-NDPS Act for repeated drug trafficking offences. The accused, with ...

A major fire erupted at Mumbai's Dharavi Ashok Mill Compound. No casualties reported. Stay updated on the latest firefighting ...