In the shadows of Mumbai's gleaming skyscrapers lie vast swathes of slums ... instills a sense of ownership and responsibility among slum dwellers, fostering a culture of self-reliance and ...

The results of a study conducted in selected slums of Mumbai to gauge the nature of financial inclusion bust certain myths about banking practices among urban slum-dwellers.

Mumbai: Central Railway (CR) will demolish around 200 slum structures in Vidyavihar next week as part of its 5th and 6th line project between Kurla and Parel. The 5th and 6th lines are already in ...

Cempaka School students and teachers say they had a heartbreaking time when distributing food to slum ... the poor in Mumbai. “We got a first-hand look at the extent of poverty among slum ...

MUMBAI, March 24 (Reuters) - Multiple cooking gas cylinders in a truck caught fire and exploded on Monday in Mumbai's biggest slum of Dharavi, where hundreds of thousands live in crowded, squalid ...

While a few families were rehabilitated then, the other residents rebuilt their tenements when they were found ineligible for rehousing MUMBAI: For more than 300 slum ... a few among us had ...

The Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) has completed over 50,000 door-to-door surveys — marking the largest slum rehabilitation survey in Mumbai’s history. This milestone, achieved on ...

Mumbai: Hundreds of tribals from Aarey, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Gorai and from various Gaothans in Mumbai gathered at Azad Maidan on Friday protesting against the non-implementation of Forest ...

Mumbai's original inhabitants—as a slum but also cited a plan to undertake a survey there this week. It sparked protests over the past weekend among locals and politicians, who alleged that it ...