Fifty years later, that swampy area — once a fishing village and rubbish dump — is now Dharavi, one of Asia’s biggest slums and a bustling hub of industry in India’s financial capital.

The government doesn’t call a slum a slum if land ownership is in doubt. Without the designation, a slum gets little by way ...

MLA and Chairman of the Karnataka Slum Development Board Prasad Abbayya has directed the local bodies and tahsildars of the ...

A video of a Zomato delivery boy has gone viral on the internet in which he shows his residence in the city of Mumbai. Mumbai ...

A five-year-old boy and a 30-year-old woman were bitten by a stray dog who injured around 11 persons in the slum area near ...

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called on India to end the arbitrary detention and ...

Read about the recent demolition of an illegal slum on government land near Sohana village by Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (Gmada).

The graph shows that DMK enjoyed an overwhelming support from the poorest areas. In the pockets where voters resided in slums, huts and slum clearance board quarters, the DMK’s vote share ...

Thackeray said his party will ensure Dharavi residents and businesses are not uprooted, adding that people staying there must ...