Multiple gas cylinders caught fire in a truck in Mumbai's biggest slum of Dharavi, where hundreds of thousands live in crowded slums, local authorities said late on Monday.

The Telegraph Online had earlier reported on the people living for seven decades on the sixth floor roof of Karnani Estate on ...

MUMBAI (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 conditions, ...

Kamakshi and Vishala Khurana’s initiative ‘The Sound Space on Wheels’ drives through Mumbai's slums to teach Indian classical ...

Since then, for over seven decades now, the slum on the terrace of Karnani Estate has been home to families whose ancestors ...

This is not the first time they have found themselves in this predicament. In 2012, the slum was razed, ironically for another road-widening project. While a few families were rehabilitated then, the ...

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The initiative, covering 400 households, is part of a global scientific trial exploring the impact of indoor heat on health ...

So we grabbed whatever we could – utensils, clothes, water cans – and keep them close to us,” said Hasina Sheikh, a resident. Sheikh said she had been living in the slum since she was a ...

Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India's western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white coating over the last two months to try to keep their occupants cooler as the ...

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The Jaga Mission has progressed far in establishing a model of decentralised participatory governance in underdeveloped urban ...