For countless migrants from all over the country, be they business school graduates, aspiring actors or destitute laborers, Mumbai is the place where dreams can come true. Those who like to think of ...

The shanty home of another "Slumdog Millionaire" child star was torn down by Mumbai authorities Wednesday as they demolished part of a city slum where she lived. Munni Qureshi — the stepmother of ...

In the narrow lanes behind the Mumbai train tracks, the slum's first Oscar party turned into a raucous celebration of two hometown heroes, complete with Bollywood dance moves and squeals of joy from ...

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani is eyeing a high-profile slum in Mumbai for his next redevelopment project. Adani is looking at turning the Dharavi slum — made famous by the Oscar-winning film ...

A new website that records the lives and evictions of slum dwellers in the Indian city of Delhi will help address the chronic ...

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo (Random House) This book should come with a warning: Reading it may be hazardous to your rosy view that ...

Mumbai: To develop alternative revenue streams, the BMC has started imposing property tax on commercial structures operating within slum areas, with an expected revenue generation of Rs 200 crores.

Soon, bulldozers are expected to rumble into Asia's largest slum, in the heart of the Indian megalopolis of Mumbai, flattening its labyrinth of filthy alleyways for a brand-new neighbourhood. The ...

MUMBAI, June 25 (Reuters) - Hindustan Construction Company Ltd will begin its Vikhroli slum redevelopment project by October, a top company official said on Friday. The firm will develop 16 acres out ...