Disinfection teams are blasting their machines in India's Mumbai slums. Health teams are working tirelessly, testing children for the coronavirus. But the sense of desperation is palpable in the slums ...

With over 40 per cent of the city’s population living in slums, data from key wards shows the BJP has emerged as the single ...

Another chronic issue plaguing the ward is that of the incomplete DP road, giving Chandivali an alternate road out, and a ...

Some of the largest slums in Mumbai, India, may be nearing herd coronavirus immunity, a new serological survey found, Bloomberg reports. Social distancing is a challenge in the crowded Mumbai ...

Even as reports of Mumbai's burgeoning slum population do the rounds daily, while burdening the city's infrastructure and Mumbai's tax payer, figures from the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai ...

As the BMC polls near, mid-day takes a look at the M East and West wards, characterised by slums and factories ...

Makarand Narwekar said that though his term ended in 2022, the work for the civic area in Colaba continued, describing the ...

A Mumbai slum district has become an unlikely tourist attraction following a paint job inspired by the picture-perfect towns along Italy’s Amalfi Coast. The grey shacks of Asalfa were a familiar sight ...

At an academic conference in Mumbai last week, some of us were in two minds when the organizers proposed a tour of Dharavi, the largest slum in Mumbai, made famous by the film Slum Dog Millionaire.

Last month, researchers in one of India’s largest cities made a surprising discovery. Of the nearly 7,000 blood samples taken from people in Mumbai’s slums, 57% tested positive for coronavirus ...

The narrow lanes inside the slum in east Mumbai where Swati Patil lives flood every year during the monsoon season of July and August. "Even if it rains for half an hour, we have waterlogging," says ...

More than half of residents living in Mumbai’s crowded slums may have contracted coronavirus and are likely being infected at a much higher rate than those not living in slum areas, a new study has ...