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  Massive fire erupts in Mumbai's Dharavi area after gas cylinders blast near bus depot | Video

  Maharashtra | March 24, 2025 23:20 IST

  Mumbai 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 | March 07, 2025 16:35 IST

  The 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 | November 07, 2024 10:27 IST

  Dharavi 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 | September 21, 2024 19:19 IST

  Maharashtra 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 | September 21, 2024 15:13 IST

  Dharavi 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 | September 21, 2024 13:31 IST

  The 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 | November 08, 2023 20:52 IST

  Dharavi, 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

  February 01, 2023 17:11 IST

  Mumbai 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

  January 18, 2023 12:37 IST

  Maharashtra 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 | November 30, 2022 9:45 IST

  The 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 | August 29, 2021 16:37 IST

  At 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 | August 14, 2021 18:01 IST

  Mumbai'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 | August 12, 2021 21:18 IST

  Dharavi, 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 | June 05, 2021 14:20 IST

  Despite 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 | February 26, 2021 22:55 IST

  The 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 | December 25, 2020 20:54 IST

  For 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 | November 29, 2020 10:43 IST

  A 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 | November 29, 2020 10:20 IST

  Mohammad 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.

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  Dharavi COVID-19 tally reaches 2,392; only 86 active cases now

  India | July 14, 2020 21:45 IST

  The COVID-19 case count in Dharavi, the biggest slum in Mumbai, rose by 11 to 2,392 on Tuesday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

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  Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, lauded by WHO for breaking chains of COVID-19 transmission

  India | July 10, 2020 23:00 IST

  Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, was lauded by the World Health Organisation for breaking chains of coronavirus transmission. Citing exemplars from across the globe, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday mentioned Dharavi along with Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and South Korea.