The Latest Breaking News from Mumbai

Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Mumbai may be typical backpacker territory, but they can be overwhelming as a first timer. Ellie Davies heads on a Gadventures tour to see if group travel is the answer to perfecting the route

The moment a landing wheel came off a plane as it took off from the runway was captured by a passenger on board.

A commuter train is stalled on a flooded railway track in Mumbai

Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?– Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, 1965. I was offered my first job in Mumbai on a very rainy day in September 2005, a few weeks after we had celebrated the…

The killing by security forces in Kashmir of three men – identified by Home Minister Amit Shah in Parliament as the terrorists who carried out the ghastly attack in Baisaran – was a breakthrough that security forces and intelligence agencies say they had been working on for over two months

Imagine your father being paraded naked in front of you and your acquaintances. Your 12-year-old son being slapped in the middle of the night. Your wife or sister being humiliated. Imagine yourself being stripped naked and subjected to months of brutal violence. Cut off from your loved ones for years,…

It was a decision based on oral information that may have set off a chain of convictions in a MCOCA court in the 2006 Mumbai blasts case. An order that was overturned nearly a decade later by the Bombay High Court, and now stayed by the Supreme Court. 

The acquittal by the Bombay High Court of 12 men accused of being responsible for the 2006 serial bomb blasts on Mumbai’s suburban trains has triggered a much-needed discussion on our criminal justice system, on the police and the investigative agencies, and the absence of closure in so many such…

Branded terrorists, tortured into confessions, and imprisoned for years – 12 men convicted in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case were acquitted on Monday by the Bombay High Court, which set aside a trial court’s judgment that had sentenced five of them to death and the others to life.