Fast economic growth often carries a high price for some of the poorest residents as slums are cleared, sometimes by force. But the Four Regions... Southeast Asian Slums Network For Housing Rights ...

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, March 24 (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 ...

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 ...

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents like Bipinkumar Padaya. "I was born here, my father was born here, my ...