Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy has delivered another shocker, commenting that Bengal's greatness is gone and Bengalis are "sweeping the floors" or "are bar dancers in Mumbai". He was offering ...

Mumbai bar dancers welcome Supreme Court's verdict Baywatch was a bar in Dadar. In 2005, a TV journalist who posed as a customer at this bar near Chitra Cinema said it felt like a film scene.

Mumbai: In a late-night crackdown, police raided two illegal dance bars in Andheri and Sakinaka, where bar girls were found ...

Namrata is a 40-year-old mother of two and a former Mumbai bar dancer. Now that the Supreme Court has lifted the Maharashtra government’s 2005 ban on that industry, she is considering a comeback.

Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy has delivered another shocker, commenting that Bengal's greatness is gone and Bengalis are "sweeping the floors" or "are bar dancers in Mumbai". He was offering ...

Mumbai: After a ban of two decades on Mumbai's dance bars, the Supreme Court today allowed them to run, staying the operation of Maharashtra Police Act that prohibited dance performances at eating ...

Mumbai: Bar dancers, who were abruptly rendered jobless after the Maharashtra government shut down dance bars on August 15, 2005, hailed the Supreme Court verdict permitting conditional re-opening ...

On Saturday night, two dancers of a south Mumbai bar were found hidden in the cavity of a toilet, during a raid. The raid occurred after the police got a tip-off about the Kalpana bar in Grant ...

Even before the dance bars reopen, Mumbai's former bar girls are twirling in delight and anticipation. It has been a hard 13 years for thousands of women who once performed at Mumbai's infamous bars.

36 bar dancers were arrested by the Mumbai police from western Mumbai area in raids on two bars for violating the prevailing law. Bar dancing was banned in Maharashtra in August 2005, after the ...

Mumbai bar dancers go to court to defend their right to work, as for many the only alternative is prostitution; Other items include, an interview with Portuguese Fado singer Dona Rosa; Education ...

Mumbai: Out-of-job bar dancers in India's financial hub of Mumbai said yesterday they would contest elections to the city council in a bid to overturn a ban on their popular nightspots that robbed ...