MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian billionaire Gautam Adani aims to convert Mumbai's Dharavi slum into a modern city hub, while acknowledging that resettling its 1 million residents will be a challenging task.

Home to nearly a million people, Dharavi is a contradiction: economically vital yet lacking in infrastructure and decent living standards. Leather units, garment factories and pottery clusters drive ...

In a surprising turn of events, Dharavi's election results bucked the larger city patterns, with Congress and Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena UBT clinching the majority of seats. Meanwhile, the ...

STORY: The Dharavi slum in India's Mumbai is home to one million people - making it one of the world's biggest. It has a complicated history dating back to the 1800s. Now a plan to overhaul the area ...

Of the seven electoral wards in the sprawling slum settlement, four have been won by Shiv Sena (UBT) candidates, two by the Congress, and one by the Shiv Sena, an ally in the BJP-led Mahayuti governme ...

When Jagdish Makkunny Thaivalapill boarded a train from Thrissur to Bombay (now Mumbai) more than four decades ago, the 17-year-old was following a path familiar to many Malayali youths of his ...

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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Residents of Mumbai's sprawling Dharavi slum face down a powerful politician eyeing their community for a real estate development in the blockbuster "Kaala", ...

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents like Bipinkumar Padaya. "I was born here, my father was born here, my ...

MUMBAI, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farhana Shaikh used to recoil in disgust when she went to the communal toilet in Dharavi. But since the pandemic struck, efforts to fight COVID-19 have ...