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 ...

Even as reports of Mumbai's burgeoning slum population do the rounds daily, while burdening the city's infrastructure and Mumbai's tax payer, figures from the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai ...

Some of the largest slums in Mumbai, India, may be nearing herd coronavirus immunity, a new serological survey found, Bloomberg reports. Social distancing is a challenge in the crowded Mumbai ...

Mumbai: The Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) launched an investigation by the deputy collector (Encroachments) following ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Just off the highway in Malad East is a neighborhood indistinct ...

A Mumbai slum district has become an unlikely tourist attraction following a paint job inspired by the picture-perfect towns along Italy’s Amalfi Coast. The grey shacks of Asalfa were a familiar sight ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A slum portrayed in the award-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" is at the center of a land controversy in Mumbai that has highlighted the challenges facing a booming India as it ...

India’s financial capital Mumbai is fine-tuning a plan to administer an unproven but much touted anti-malarial drug in neighborhoods including Asia’s most crowded slum, the first-of-its-kind mass ...

Last month, researchers in one of India’s largest cities made a surprising discovery. Of the nearly 7,000 blood samples taken from people in Mumbai’s slums, 57% tested positive for coronavirus ...

Mumbai, Jan 31 (PTI) At least eight shanties were gutted after a fire erupted in a slum in Govandi area of eastern Mumbai on Saturday morning, a civic official said. There were no reports of ...