Dharavi
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Dharavi Redevelopment Project survey nears completion with strong resident participation
Maharashtra | Jul 26, 2025, 08:07 AM ISTDharavi Redevelopment Project: The DRP helpline has emerged as a crucial tool for communication, allowing residents to ask questions, resolve doubts, and express concerns. Of the 300+ calls received specifically about eligibility in the last month, many involved requests for required documents.
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Dharavi makeover begins: Over 75 pc of households eligible in first redevelopment list | Details
Maharashtra | Jul 02, 2025, 10:31 PM ISTThe Dharavi Redevelopment Project has called for suggestions and objections from affected tenement holders regarding the Draft Annexure-II. Residents can submit their feedback to the DRP office by July 5, as part of efforts to promote transparency and public participation in the ongoing process.
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Massive fire erupts in Mumbai's Dharavi area after gas cylinders blast near bus depot | Video
Maharashtra | Mar 24, 2025, 11:20 PM ISTMumbai Dharavi fire: The incident occurred at around 10 pm and the fire tenders have reached the spot. As of now, no causalities have been reported.
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Supreme Court refuses to stay Adani Group's Dharavi Redevelopment Project
India | Mar 07, 2025, 04:35 PM ISTThe court had cleared the decks for redevelopment of the slums in Dharavi and upheld the tender awarded to the Adani Group for the project, ruling there was no "arbitrariness, unreasonableness or perversity" in the decision.
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Dharavi Assembly Election 2024: Constituency profile, past winners, margin and party-wise candidates
Maharashtra | Nov 07, 2024, 10:27 AM ISTDharavi Assembly Election 2024: In the 2019 elections, Gaikwad Varsha Eknath, representing the Congress, won the Dharavi seat by defeating Ashish Vasant More from the Shiv Sena. Eknath secured 53,954 votes, while More received 42,130 votes.
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Dharavi mosque case: Provocative videos shared to call outsiders for protest
Maharashtra | Sep 21, 2024, 07:19 PM ISTMaharashtra Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha asserted that the demolition of illegal construction will take place at any cost. He said that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will demolish the illegal construction after seven days.
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Dharavi mosque case: Trustees ask for time to remove illegal construction, write to BMC
Maharashtra | Sep 21, 2024, 03:13 PM ISTDharavi mosque row: Protests were seen against the BMC team that went to demolish the illegal construction at Dharavi's Shubhaniya Mosque. However, later the trustees of the mosque wrote a letter to the BMC and asked for time to demolish the illegal construction themselves.
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BMC halts demolition drive against 'illegal portion' of religious structure in Dharavi amid protests
Maharashtra | Sep 21, 2024, 01:31 PM ISTThe BMC, earlier today, arrived at the site of a religious structure in the Dharavi area of Mumbai to demolish an alleged illegal portion of it, triggering protests by the locals.
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Adani Group to begin Dharavi redevelopment project, say reports
Maharashtra | Nov 08, 2023, 08:52 PM ISTDharavi, located in the central part of the country's financial capital and among the biggest slum clusters in the world, is a hub for several small-scale, unorganised industries that manufacture medicines, leather, footwear, clothes etc.
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Woman dies in fire at garment units in Mumbai's Dharavi slum colony
Feb 01, 2023, 05:11 PM ISTMumbai fire: At least four to five units located on the ground floors of two adjacent two-storey buildings in Ashok Mill compound were affected by the blaze which erupted at around noon, official said.
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Maharashtra: Man brutally stabbed to death in front of wife in Dharavi; accused still at large
Jan 18, 2023, 12:37 PM ISTMaharashtra crime: The police confirmed that the deceased, identified as Zahid, was a watchman by profession. The deceased's wife was also injured while trying to save her husband.
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Adani Group bags Dharavi redevelopment project with Rs 5,069 crore bid
India | Nov 30, 2022, 09:45 AM ISTThe group has put in a Rs 5,069 crore bid for the redevelopment of one of the largest slum sprawls in the world, outbidding DLF, which had quoted Rs 2,025 crore, chief executive officer of the project SVR Srinivas said.
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15 people injured as LPG cylinder explodes in Dharavi; 5 critical after severe burns
India | Aug 29, 2021, 04:37 PM ISTAt least 15 people suffered injuries after an LPG cylinder exploded and caused a minor fire at a shanty in Maharashtra's Dharavi.
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No new case of Covid in Mumbai's Dharavi in last 24 hours
India | Aug 14, 2021, 06:01 PM ISTMumbai's Dharavi reports zero case of Covid in the last 24 hours. At present, the active cases in the area stand at 11, says Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
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Dharavi, the biggest slum in Mumbai, now Covid-free
News | Aug 12, 2021, 09:18 PM ISTDharavi, the biggest slum in Mumbai, is now Covid-free. Earlier in April, it became a hotspot of coronavirus infections when the second wave of the pandemic was at its peak in Maharashtra.
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Mumbai: Misinformation fuels vaccine hesitancy in Asia's Largest Slum Dharavi, watch report
News | Jun 05, 2021, 02:20 PM ISTDespite the availability of vaccination services Vaccine hesitancy is causing delay in vaccination drive in india which can cause risk to the people who aren’t getting vaccinated as well as the wider community. watch report from Asia's Largest Slum Dharavi.
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Mumbai's Dharavi sees highest spike in 4 months, reports 16 new Covid cases
India | Feb 26, 2021, 10:55 PM ISTThe slum-dominated Dharavi area in Mumbai recorded 16 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest daily rise since October, a senior official of theBrihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
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First time since April, Dharavi reports no new COVID-19 case
India | Dec 25, 2020, 08:54 PM ISTFor the first time since April 1 when the first coronavirus patient was detected in the area, no new case has been detected.
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5-yr-old boy crushed to death after getting stuck in lift door in Dharavi
India | Nov 29, 2020, 10:43 AM ISTA five-year-old boy was crushed to death in his building’s lift in Dharavi on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Huzaifa Sarfaraz Shaikh. According to the police, the incident took place in the Cozy housing society at Cross Road in Dharavi at 12:43 pm.
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Kid dies of head injuries in lift accident in Mumbai's Dharavi
News | Nov 29, 2020, 10:20 AM ISTMohammad Huzaifa Shaikh, who was inside the lift with his siblings, failed to get out when it reached the fourth floor and got stuck between the wooden safety door and grill, and sustained severe head injuries when the lift moved.