Largest slums in India explained with key facts, population, and living conditions. From Dharavi in Mumbai to Basanti in ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - In homes that are cramped, stuffy and increasingly low on food, residents of Mumbai's huge Dharavi slum are struggling under India's nationwide lockdown. In Dharavi, where an ...

The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old ...

The forces at work in the India of The Revolutionary Optimists, an engaging documentary portrait of several children seeking to improve life in India’s slums, appear overwhelming from almost every ...

A heat wave has left water in short supply across India’s capital region. The poorest are left to crowd around tankers to get whatever they can. By Sameer Yasir Photographs and Video by Saumya ...

Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one-storey home crammed into a tangle of alleys - Copyright ENGINEER JEROME MARTINEZ/AFP Handout Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one ...

The Indian government has relocated slum dwellers to high-rises in urban areas to solve a growing housing problem. But some apartment dwellers have reason to miss their old living arrangements, Jackie ...

The people living in Delhi's jhuggi jhopris form a significant share of the unorganised economy of the city, comprising street vendors, hawkers, daily-wage labourers and other menial-jobs workers.

The image of India that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to project at the G20 is one of a modern superpower, a leader of the Global South, and a voice for impoverished nations. But the government ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - In homes that are cramped, stuffy and increasingly low on food, residents of Mumbai's huge Dharavi slum are struggling under India's nationwide lockdown. In Dharavi, where an ...