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 ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A television report on Mumbai's dance bars and the controversy over whether they should be banned or not first piqued Sonia Faleiro's interest in the vast network of bars in ...

The dance bars were shut down during the erstwhile Congress-Nationalist Congress Party rule by the then Home Minister, the late RR Patil. Mumbai: Bar dancers, who were abruptly rendered jobless after ...

Determined to reveal the India behind the glitz and glamour of its economic boom, Sonia Faleiro spent five years immersed in the brothels of Mumbai - befriending bar dancers, transsexuals and ...

MUMBAI, March 16 (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 ...

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of a law imposing restrictions on the licensing and functioning of dance bars in the state of Maharashtra and its capital ...

A night at Tryst is like attending a spectacular light show, where more than a million color-changing LEDs poke out of almost every corner and bright green absinthe potions swirl around in glasses. If ...

The officials on Tuesday said that the police have conducted a raid at an illegally operated dance bar in Maharashtra's Thane district and arrested six persons, including its owner and manager, ...