15 articles
Marco Rubio meets S. Jaishankar in Mumbai on Tuesday, four days after a White House order paused a 100 percent tariff threat over Russian oil and gave his office a say in when that pause ends.
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In February 2015, the BMC demolished a 75-metre ramp Shah Rukh Khan had built on a public road outside Mannat — and considered billing him for it.
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In 2014, ecommerce platform Zepo put four Bandra street chaiwalas online at ChotuChaiWala.com — weekly subscriptions of Mumbai's cutting chai, delivered to
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When Hollaback’s NYC street-harassment video went viral in 2014, India’s IndieTube tested Mumbai: Pooja Singh walked for 10 hours in a skirt — and wasn’t
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The Shakti Mills gang rape of a 23-year-old photojournalist in August 2013 shocked Mumbai. A retrospective on the crime, the convictions, and what followed.
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Prema Jayakumar, 24, scored 607 out of 800 to top the all-India CA exam, studying in a 300 sq ft Malad chawl while her father drove an autorickshaw.
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Varsha Bhosle, 56, singer and columnist and daughter of Asha Bhosle, was found dead at her Pedder Road home on October 8, 2012, police said.
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Ten years after Salman Khan's Land Cruiser ran over pavement dwellers in Bandra, killing one and injuring others, the victims were still waiting for
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After years of speculation, Nita Ambani gave Vanity Fair its first look inside Antilia in 2012 — and settled the rumors about whether the family had ever
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Mumbai Police released photos of alleged LeT terrorists who had entered the city — but reporters found the men in Lahore, running shops, tied to no plot.
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A Bombay High Court judge's 'be like Sita' remark to a wife in 2012 sparked a debate about mythology, marital endurance, and what courts owe women seeking
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A new generation of Mumbai's underworld families is walking away from the family business — training as pilots, doctors, engineers and bankers instead.
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In 2011, stories of an underground fight circuit in Mumbai echoed the famous film. What the scene said about unmet demand for combat sports in India.
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Part travelogue, part confession: Gregory David Roberts' 2003 epic follows an escaped Australian convict into the slums and underworld of Bombay.
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A story did the rounds in 2010: a Mumbai chemist shop paying Rs 42 lakh a month in rent. On why the anecdote's plausibility was the real story.
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