The court did away with two other clauses that mandated a partition between the dancer and the audience and insisted that those seeking lic...

The union alleged that the term 'obscene dance' in the Act has been deliberately kept vague to allow the police to harass the women perform...

The video, which is also being aired on some local channels, shows the MLA allegedly showering currency notes on dancers at a wedding funct...

Refusing to accept showering of currency notes on women dancers as tip, the bench said, "this provision shows respect for women. This digni...

In the wake of the Supreme Court order on resumption of dance bars in Maharashtra, the state government granted licences to owners of four ...

Supreme Court cleared the decks for the issuance of dance bar licences as it modified the conditions for the permit and excluded installati...

Bar and restaurant owners represented by their associations had sought their reopening, as had the dancers for whom this was a means of liv...

After starting her career with Farah-SRK's joint production 'Om Shanti Om' 7 yrs ago, actress Deepika Padukone feels her upcoming project '...

On July 16, 2013, the Supreme Court upheld Bombay High Court's decision to junk the ban on dance bars in the state of Maharashtra.

The Goa government today said it will not issue excise licence to dance bars in the state.

This subaltern market exists and thrives the same way many other unorganised city enterprises do, in the fault lines between the good, civi...

Only a few seasoned erstwhile patrons of these joints still living in Mumbai strike a discordant note.

This dance bar next to a famous restaurant in one of the most expensive suburbs in Mumbai has been functional for a few years now despite t...

The Shiv Sena has criticised the SC verdict lifting the seven-year ban on bar dancers in Maharashtra and asked whether courts are ruling th...

Maharashtra government may file a review petition in the Supreme Court, hike fees and introduce more curbs on licences.

Those in the know say Mumbai had roughly 75,000 bar dancers who were similarly affected, with some reportedly committing suicide.

The terpsichorean exchange between the supposed upholders of the law (and morality) and the custodians of the Constitution, however, is hea...