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

Ahir said dance bars had ruined many families, especially the youth, but the present government supported them. He sought to know the ratio...

The minister said that even without amendments or a new law, the state could put restrictions on dance bars and one of the options could be...

Bollywood celebrities Madhur Bhandarkar, Pooja Bhatt, Konkona Sensharma have hailed the SC’s decision to stay a state law banning dance bar...

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

Long before the beef ban, the recently deceased RR Patil, when home minister of the state, did something similar to the dance bars.

Earlier, when the bar girls and bar owners approached the Bombay HC challenging the government ban, the HC had agreed with the petitioners'.

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.

He indicated that the government is mulling withdrawal of dance performance license to star hotels to remove any disparity.

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 Maharashtra Government does not really want the dance bars to shut down, MNS president Raj Thackeray today said, reacting to the SC's r...

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

The state government has not yet decided whether to file a review petition in the Supreme Court in the dance bar case.

Getting licences, though, may take time, as the bar owners do not know how swiftly the state government would act to revive the controversi...

Dance bars spread across Mumbai in the early part of the last decade after starting in the early 1990s, evolving from Mujra parlours of yes...

Nightouts in Maharashtra, and especially Mumbai, have become a costlier affair. The almost-broke Maharashtra government last month announce...