Over 250 Mumbai families from Janta Nagar begin people-led SRA redevelopment, reclaiming homes and shaping their future through cooperative housing ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Three years ago an inquisitive American tourist wandered into a waterfront slum in Mumbai and met a tiny, smiley girl. Maleesha Kharwa is now 15, still tiny, and with the same ...

Around 17,000 slum dwellers will get free homes as redevelopment of Mata Ramabai Nagar in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area kicked off ...

MUMBAI, Jan 26 (Reuters) - A firm led by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani will start in February to collect the data and biometrics of up to 1 million poor residents as part of the redevelopment of a ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A joint-venture led by billionaire Gautam Adani is struggling to secure land to rehabilitate poor residents of one of Asia's largest slums in Mumbai, a government official said, ...

Soon, bulldozers are expected to rumble into Asia's largest slum, in the heart of the Indian megalopolis ... since swelled the district until it was absorbed into Mumbai, now home to 22 million people ...

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 ...

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This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 8, 2012. On Wednesday, Katherine Boo won the National Book Award for nonfiction for Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ...

MUMBAI (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 ...

You can play golf on pristine green courses. You can even play on a course made of ice. But thanks to some innovative thinking, residents of some of the poorest areas of Mumbai have been using the ...