A customer showers money on a dancer at a dance bar in Mumbai, May 5, 2005. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe AD/LD/Files By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After a 10-year hiatus, dance bars ...

Six nights a week, Aanam Khan (name changed) dresses in a ghaghra-choli for work. She is a bar girl based in Mumbai's Mira Road suburb, and also works in a bar in Mumbai Central on certain days.

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 ...

Navi Mumbai: A police constable attached to the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Navi Mumbai crime branch was suspended by DCP (crime) Sachin Gunjal on Friday after a video clip of him partying and ...

It is an extremely good news one for those who thought that Mumbai’s night life is dead as a dodo. MUMBAI: Here s some bad news for deputy CM RR Patil, but then it is an extremely good one for those ...

The Supreme Court has delivered its verdict on pleas of hotel and restaurant owners challenging the Maharashtra government’s new rules on the functioning of dance bars in the state. The Supreme Court ...

Mumbai: Yes, folks, if things go as planned, dance bars are making a dramatic comeback to Mumbai’s nightlife scene. Once relegated to the shadowy corners of the city’s twilight zone, these beloved ...