Chotu Chaiwala of Mumbai The ( Chai right from the street peddlers to your office desk. When you can't have a chai break, the chai walas of the street deliver chai to your desk. ChotuChaiWala is an initiative by ( an eco...

A few weeks ago, a hidden-camera video of a woman walking through various neighborhoods of New York City captured international attention. The footage documented more than 100 instances of street harassment — catcalls, u...

Another gang-rape in Mumbai A young journalist has been gang raped in Mumbai. This 23-year-old woman was with a male colleague shooting for an assignment. She works for an English publication in Mumbai. On the pretext of...

The rape and murder of three young sisters in Maharashtra has shocked the state. "The incident is extremely deplorable and painful. I appeal to the people to maintain calm and cooperate with the law-enforcers," Chief Min...

Surmounting all odds, Prema Jayakumar, daughter of a Mumbai-based autorickshaw driver, has topped the all India Chartered Accountancy (CA) examination. Residing in a crammed one-room chawl in suburban Malad with her pare...

As recently as 2006, when I first visited India and China, the economic race was on, with heavy bets being placed on which one would win the developing world sweepstakes. Many Westerners fervently hoped that a democratic...

David Coleman Headley was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison Thursday primarily for his role in planning the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed more than 160 people, including six Americans. Mr. Headley, a Pa...

90-year-old Bollywood superstar Dilip Kumar has been dragged to court following a legal complaint filed by his two brothers over their Pali Hill bungalow in Mumbai. The two brothers, 77-year-old Ehsan Khan and 75-year-ol...

Two Mumbai women were today ordered by a court to 14 days in jail for their post on Facebook on the shutdown of Mumbai on Sunday, the day of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's funeral. However, they were bailed within hou...

Veteran Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle's daughter Varsha, who was suffering from depression, today committed suicide by shooting herself, police said. A singer and columnist, Varsha, 56, shot herself in the temple with a p...

Aseem Trivedi, a political cartoonist whose satirical work on corruption and the political establishment had gained widespread visibility through social media during India's anti-corruption movement, was arrested in Mumb...

Eyebrow lift Rs 5,000 and upwards, a relatively complication-free procedure, but can lead to numbness, nerve damage Eye lift Rs 20,000-60,000, can lead to dry eyes, change in vision and difficulty in blinking Lip plumpin...

Indian leaders appealed for calm on Friday as natives of northeastern India now living in southern cities left in droves for a third day over fears that violence in the northeastern state of Assam would spread south. Sta...

Na janu apne mann ki main, Ab kya kaha kab kaun banu, kuch bhi bana, ya kuch na bana, bus... baithi rahu tere dar pe main (I don't know what my heart says; what, where, whom I will become; make me something, or don't mak...

Having just finished a gruelling outdoor shoot in Istanbul for Race 2, Saif Ali Khan is back in Mumbai, promoting his new film Cocktail and planning his wedding with Kareena Kapoor. Even though Cocktail releases this Fri...

A much-wanted terrorist who was among six instructors or handlers of the men who attacked Mumbai on 26/11 has been arrested by the Delhi police. 166 people died in that attack in 2008. Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Ha...

Billionaire Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani's wife Nita describes their 27-storey Mumbai house Antilla as a "modern home with an Indian heart" and the "only home we have in the world." The ultra-luxurious 400,000 sq f...

Mumbai Police on Wednesday released photographs of three alleged terrorists, out of five, that it claimed belonged to banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and had entered Mumbai. The three, however, are present in Lahore,...

A remark attributed to a Bombay High Court judge — that a wife should be like the goddess Sita, devoted, patient, and self-sacrificing — ignited a sharp debate about the place of religious and mythological ideals in judi...

A story circulating in early 2011 about an underground fighting circuit operating in Mumbai — organized bouts between willing participants, conducted outside the regulatory framework of licensed combat sports, in setting...