MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After a 10-year hiatus, dance bars are set to reopen in Mumbai and Maharashtra state with activists warning women and girls could be trafficked and abused in ...

Navi Mumbai: In the early hours of Sunday morning, shocking footage from a spy camera revealed blatant violations of bar regulations at Red Rose Bar & Resto in Nerul. The incident, recorded around ...

Mumbai: In a late-night crackdown, police raided two illegal dance bars in Andheri and Sakinaka, where bar girls were found performing obscene dances while customers showered them with currency notes.

The small lanes and alleyways through Mumbai's red-light district are hideous and creepy. It is evening rush hour in Kamathipura and hundreds of sex workers are dressed for the night. With plastic ...

The tone of Rashmi’s voice on the other side of the phone was one of happiness. She sounded really excited and engaged me in an animated conversation for a few minutes. “I have gotten a new life and ...

Activists of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) launched an attack at a dance bar in Navi Mumbai and vandalised the premises, police said on Sunday (August 3, 2025). The incident occurred in Panvel ...

Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 45, No. 44/45 (OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 12, 2010), pp. 48-55 (8 pages) With the case against the ban on dance bars in Mumbai still pending in the Supreme Court, this ...

Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Gaikwad, after assaulting a canteen worker for allegedly serving stale food, sparked controversy by targeting South Indians, particularly the Shetty community. He accused them of ...