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MNS workers vandalise dance bar in Navi Mumbai: ‘Will not allow…' | Video

a group of workers from the MNS entered the building, smashed furniture, and broke bottles of liquor, the police said.
Updated on Aug 04, 2025 12:00 pm IST

Shiv Sena minister Yogesh Kadam’s family surrenders licence of ‘dance bar’

The development comes against the backdrop of growing calls from the Opposition demanding junior home minister Yogesh Kadam’s resignation. (Satish Bate/HT PHOTO)
Published on Aug 02, 2025 07:36 am IST

MIDC senior police inspector suspended after failing to take action against ‘dance bar’

MIDC senior police inspector Rajiv Chavan
Published on Jun 16, 2025 06:28 am IST

Steve Jyrwa wins India’s Best Dancer 4: I can’t believe there was a time when...

Steve Jyrwa hails from Shillong.
Published on Nov 11, 2024 06:18 am IST

HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on May 22

Catch It Live on May 22
Published on May 22, 2024 06:30 am IST

Customers can’t be booked for obscene dance performed by bar girls: Bombay HC

Bar girls at an Andheri West nightclub. HT Photo by Vijayanand Gupta
Updated on Apr 11, 2024 09:28 am IST

Six stab 29-year-old man 30 times outside Ulhasnagar bar; cops say no clarity on motive yet

(LOW RES PIC)India –January 21.2020.Murder of Deepak Bhoir in Ulhasnagar late night near Duru Bar in Kalyan, India, on Tuesday. January 21.2020. (Photo by Rishikesh Choudhary/Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jan 22, 2020 09:44 am IST

29 year-old man fatally shot at during brawl in dance bar

A 29-year-old man was allegedly shot in Ulhasnagar on Monday.
Updated on Jan 21, 2020 10:50 am IST

Mumbaiwale: Secretive and seductive, Mumbai’s mujra scene today

Rekha, in her iconic role as the 1800s courtesan Umrao Jaan, with Naseeruddin Shah.
Updated on Sept 07, 2019 02:40 pm IST

4 Mumbai cops suspended for inaction over dance bar norms

Four police personnel from Kasturba Marg police station in Borivli (East) were suspended on Monday for allegedly failing to act against at least five dance bars, which flouted the guidelines.
Published on Jul 16, 2019 06:36 am IST

Four Indian women tricked into working at Dubai dance bar rescued

Four Indian women tricked into working at Dubai dance bar rescued
Updated on Jun 29, 2019 03:01 pm IST

Lookout notice against Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s son charged with rape

Binoy Kodiyeri was booked for rape and breach of trust and has been absconding for more than ten days since the case was filed against him in Mumbai’s Oshiwara police station.
Updated on Jun 26, 2019 07:58 pm IST

Police rescue 135 women from brothel in Grant Road

Representative image
Published on May 26, 2019 01:38 am IST

BMC official among 15 held in raid at Mumbai dance bar

At least 15 persons, including a senior official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), were arrested following a raid on a dance bar in Colaba at South Mumbai early on Wednesday,
Updated on May 16, 2019 09:00 am IST

2 cops suspended for not acting against dance bar running illegally in Andheri

Sub-inspector Kalyan Narayan Ghadge and police naik Dattatray Narayanrao Ambore, of beat chowky-3, were suspended by senior officers after a departmental inquiry found them guilty.
Published on Apr 22, 2019 07:37 am IST

8 from Mumbai apply for dance bar licences after rule change

Bar girls entertain customers in a dance bar at Andheri West.
Updated on Mar 06, 2019 08:20 am IST

Our politicians must evolve with the changing times

Pertie was exercised by the response of Maharashtra politicians to the recent Supreme Court ruling relaxing the stringent conditions imposed by the state government on dance bars in Mumbai
Updated on Jan 27, 2019 08:21 am IST

Maharashtra may issue fresh ordinance to keep dance bars shut

The Supreme Court order has struck down rules that virtually prohibited the running of dance bars. The court ruled that there could be ‘regulations’ but not ‘total prohibition’.
Updated on Jan 24, 2019 03:29 pm IST

Women should not allow men to hide behind their bangles

The Supreme Court overturned the Maharashtra government’s closure of dance bars in Mumbai
Updated on Jan 22, 2019 11:31 pm IST

A day after SC order, Maharashtra government mulling fresh legislation, officials doubt whether the move would serve the purpose

state finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said his government was considering a review petition or even a fresh ordinance to regulate dance bars.
Published on Jan 19, 2019 12:19 pm IST

Maharashtra considers fresh ordinance on dance bars after Supreme Court order

Another official from the department said that bringing an ordinance for certain measures such as making CCTV (closed circuit television) cameras inside the bars mandatory, will amount to contempt of court.
Updated on Jan 18, 2019 10:36 pm IST

Will bring ordinance on dance bars, if needed: Maharashtra

The Maharashtra government on Friday said that, if needed, an ordinance will be brought to enforce rules to regulate dance bars in the state.
Updated on Jan 18, 2019 01:07 pm IST

SC relaxes norms: Is the jig against Maharashtra’s dance bars finally up?

State home department officials said timing restrictions, fire-safety norms, agreements with women working in the bars and obscenity, which have not been struck down, would continue to make it difficult for bar owners to run their establishments.
Published on Jan 18, 2019 12:25 pm IST

Supreme Court rewrites rules for Maharashtra dance bars shut for 13 years

The order, which came on pleas of hotel and restaurant owners, also overturned the rule that prohibited serving alcohol in bars.
Updated on Jan 17, 2019 11:28 pm IST

‘Mumbai accepts you when you begin to accept yourself’

Shreya Reddy attended an education fair in Vile Parle on Sunday, to apply to foreign universities. She wants to do research and subsequently work in fields related to family sensitisation from a reputed foreign university.
Updated on Aug 24, 2018 09:10 am IST

Licences of 28 orchestra bars cancelled; more to face music

At present, there are 294 orchestra bars that have performance licences across the city.
Updated on Aug 16, 2018 02:57 pm IST