The city's slums--where 60 percent of Mumbai's 15 million residents live--are everywhere: along the roadsides and railroad tracks, even atop the two-meter-diameter pipes that carry Mumbai's ...

But up to a million slum dwellers in the economic capital Mumbai are set for upheaval as the city is poised for a radical makeover Five years after the regional government announced its intention ...

An estimated 40% of Bombay's residents are said to live in slums or shantytowns. The city's older slums - such as Dharavi, Byculla and Khar - have houses made of brick and mortar but lack drainage ...

Now, she is suspicious about the timing of Dharavi's planned make-over. Dharavi, she says, is not the worst of the many slums in Bombay, also known as Mumbai. In fact, makeshift townships account for ...