”Mumbai” News

"A Wednesday" depicts terror threat in Mumbai

MUMBAI (Reuters) - An anonymous call threatening to bomb Mumbai city sets off a hair-raising search for the attackers in a new Bollywood thriller opening on Friday, the latest in a slew of Indian films based on terrorism.
09 6 2008 11:21AM (...more)

Bollywood film depicts terror threat in Mumbai

MUMBAI (Reuters) - An anonymous call threatening to bomb Mumbai city sets off a hair-raising search for the attackers in a new Bollywood thriller opening on Friday, the latest in a slew of Indian films based on terrorism.
09 6 2008 9:33AM (...more)

Mumbai taximen call off strike

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Mumbai Taximen's Union called off a flash strike late on Thursday afternoon after a senior state minister assured legal action against activists of a local political party who ransacked the union's office.
02 7 2008 10:56PM (...more)

Crude bombs defused in Mumbai suburb

MUMBAI (Reuters) - About half a dozen home-made bombs were recovered in Mumbai, police said on Wednesday, about a year after the city's railway network was bombed, killing 187 people.
09 26 2007 10:55PM (...more)

Catholic Church rejects Mumbai 'miracle'

MUMBAI (AFP) - The Roman Catholic Church in India 's financial capital Mumbai has rejected claims of a miracle, after devotees said a framed image of Jesus Christ began "bleeding" on a holy day.
09 2 2008 7:41AM (...more)

Indian police find 6 bombs in Mumbai

MUMBAI, India - Indian police found six crude bombs near a train station in Mumbai , the city where 187 people were killed more than a year ago in a series of bombings on a commuter rail network, officials said Wednesday.
09 26 2007 10:49PM (...more)

Mumbai to build statue taller than Lady Liberty

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Mumbai plans to erect a statue of aHindu warrior king off the city's shore in the Arabian Sea thatwill be taller than the Statue of Liberty, government officialssaid on Tuesday.
06 4 2008 2:04AM (...more)

Bollywood's Bachchan hits back at disloyalty charge

MUMBAI (AFP) - India 's film superstar Amitabh Bachchan has hit back at critics who have accused him of being disloyal to the country's entertainment capital Mumbai .
04 10 2008 8:56PM (...more)

Top Bollywood stars swept up in nativist politics

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A surge of nativism in Mumbai, India's most cosmopolitan city, is leading to an uneasy relationship with one of its best-known institutions -- Bollywood.
09 13 2008 8:11AM (...more)

Office building in central Mumbai catches fire

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A fire broke out in the basement of a building in central Mumbai on Friday due to a suspected electrical short circuit, fire service officials said.
07 18 2008 7:38PM (...more)