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Bollywood faced a challenging year in 2024, with box-office collections dropping significantly, leading to concerns about a return to lawlessness in Mumbai.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2025
Bollywood’s dark past is threatening to return
When everything starts bombing for Bollywood, things take a sinister turn in Mumbai.
A Nvidia chip during the Taipei Computex expo in Taipei on May 29, 2023
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 28, 2024
How a Mumbai drugmaker is helping Putin get Nvidia AI chips
An inconspicuous pharmaceutical company exported 1,111 units of Dell Technologies' most-advanced servers to Russia in April-August of this year.
Shiseido products on display at a Nykaa Luxe store in Mumbai, India, in November
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 15, 2023
Shiseido bets on India growth with first launch in a decade
Japan’s largest cosmetic firm has partnered with Indian retailer Shoppers Stop’s Global SS Beauty Brands and will open 14 stores in New Delhi and Mumbai.
A protest against the redevelopment of Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai. Banners read: "Remove Adani, Save Dharavi" and "First we fought the whites now we fight the thieves".
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 28, 2023
Billionaire's bid to remake Mumbai slum spurs residents' doubts
Amid massive financial setbacks and allegations that political allies gave him favorable treatment, some question Adani's intentions.
Residents stand in the corridors outside their homes at the Worli dairy quarters building in Mumbai. This crumbling structure houses more than 600 people.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 8, 2023
In Mumbai, civil servants risk safety for affordable housing
Some 600 people live in one government-owned, dilapidated block, in the same neighborhood that's home to the daughter of India's richest man.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 16, 2022
Mumbai heat wave leaves fewer fish in the sea for female sellers
Located on the Arabian Sea, a particularly fast-warming part of the Indian Ocean, Mumbai has experienced unseasonal rains, cyclones and extreme heat in the past five years.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 17, 2021
Wealthy residents and workers jump vaccine queue in India's financial hub
India began vaccinating front-line workers and over 60s against COVID-19 in January but hit a hurdle in May when all adults became eligible for a jab, amid major supply shortages.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 19, 2021
How Mumbai officials made city better prepared for COVID-19 than Delhi
The city's success has partly been attributed to a decentralized system set up during the first wave, which included neighborhood war rooms to manage cases by locality.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 12, 2021
As COVID-19 ravages India, one Mumbai slum succeeds in turning the tide
The pandemic crisis has forced both authorities and local people to rethink sanitation and public health issues.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 14, 2020
How Asia's largest slum chased away COVID-19
India’s Dharavi, Asia’s most crowded slum, has gone from coronavirus hot spot to potential success story, offering a model for developing nations struggling to contain the pandemic.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
May 26, 2020
More patients than beds in Mumbai as India faces surge in coronavirus cases
India's booming private hospitals have taken some of the strain off the underfunded public health network, but even private facilities are at risk of being overrun.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 1, 2020
India fetes New Year's Eve with protests over anti-Muslim citizenship law
Thousands of Indians ushered in the New Year by demonstrating against a citizenship law despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attempts to dampen protests that have run for nearly three weeks.
WORLD
Dec 20, 2018
Sex crime survivors start caravan to India's capital, demanding justice
Hundreds of people set out from Mumbai to India's capital, New Delhi, on Thursday in a caravan aimed at pressuring authorities to speed up trials of perpetrators of sex crimes, and to encourage victims to speak out.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 13, 2018
Women farmers join 'long march' to Mumbai to demand land and forest rights
Thousands of women farmers marched into Mumbai alongside their male peers on Monday demanding the government recognizes their rights over forests and stops the takeover of land for industrial projects.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 16, 2018
Mumbai's far-reaching revival plan targets historic dockland area
It was a trip few Mumbai residents had made before — to a smelly dock on murky waters in the city's southern tip, to see colorful art installations inspired by the fishing community, the city's original residents.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 21, 2016
LGBT Indians to drive taxis in Mumbai in sign of social acceptance
Mumbai's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens will soon be able to drive private taxis in the city, in a sign of the increasing acceptance of the marginalized community in India's commercial capital.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 7, 2015
In wake of Paris attack, India risks missing lessons from Mumbai massacre
Last month, during an exercise to test India's readiness for a militant attack, teams of coast guards approached Mumbai and surrounding areas by sea, just as assailants did before deadly strikes in 2008. Several teams slipped through undetected.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 30, 2015
Top court dashes appeal hours before 1993 Mumbai 'driving spirit' bomber due to hang
Yakub Memon's last hope of avoiding the hangman's noose for his role in the 1993 Mumbai bombings was dashed on Wednesday, after India's Supreme Court threw out his final plea for mercy hours before he was due to be executed.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Apr 29, 2013
Indian activists push for clean cities
As more Indians travel the world and their country's growing economy and population gain more global attention, they are increasingly embarrassed about one of India's dirtiest features: its cities.

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A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped