Mumbai

WATCH: Building Collapse In India Kills At Least 35 People

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.04.2013 | UK

An illegally built housing block in India collapsed on Thursday killing at least 35 people including 11 children. The building in Thane, near the c...

International Women's Day 2013: The Inspirational Work of Lady Health Workers across Asia

Dr Caroline Harper | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Dr Caroline Harper

Women in developing countries face massive barriers in accessing health care due to cultural restrictions, geographical limitations, and discrimination because of their gender. One of the most inspirational groups of women I've met during my travels - women who are breaking through these barriers everyday - are the female health workers of Asia.

Indians 'Incredibly Welcome' In Britain, Says PM (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.02.2013 | UK Politics

David Cameron voiced his determination on Monday to make it easier for Indian businessmen and students to work, study and invest in the UK as he arriv...

Fink... The Long-Weekend in India

Tim Thornton | Posted 20.02.2013 | UK Entertainment
Tim Thornton

This has been said before, in many different ways, languages and levels of exasperation, but I'll reiterate: Mumbai is fucking crazy. Twelve and a half million people living on an island less than half the size of London.

Pictures Of The Day Live: 26th November 2012

Elliot Wagland | Posted 26.11.2012 | UK

The Huffington Post picture desk live bringing you the best pictures of the day from around the world chosen by our very own photo editors. Follow ...

Mumbai: Where Being Poor Is a Crime

Faiza Khan | Posted 29.12.2012 | UK Politics
Faiza Khan

The state government considers homes built after 1995 on public land illegal and thus feels no obligation to provide access to basic rights - housing, water or sanitation. Every few months bulldozers show up to remind them that they shouldn't be there. That's the story of a million people in Bombay. Where being poor is a crime.

Is Starbucks Needed in India?

Laxmi Hariharan | Posted 21.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Laxmi Hariharan

"It is perhaps the most elegant, beautiful, dynamic store we've opened in our history," chief executive Howard Schultz said in an interview on the occasion of the opening of Starbucks' first flagship Indian store, in the exclusive Horniman Circle neighbourhood of south Mumbai (also known as SoBO for those of us in the know.)

In Praise of the London-Monsoon

Laxmi Hariharan | Posted 15.09.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Laxmi Hariharan

"I am fed up of this rain." My friend's seventy-year old mother who had just flown in from Norway continued, "summers are normally good in Scandinavia, but this year Oslo is just like London!"

Union Jill-Indian

Laxmi Hariharan | Posted 30.07.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Laxmi Hariharan

I was five when I first saw the Gateway of India located in Colaba, Bombay opposite that other famous edifice, the Taj Mahal Hotel. Fighting through t...

Viral Video Chart: Parsimonious Porcupine, Indian Flashmobs And Crazy Koreans

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 30.11.2011 | UK

A thought-provoking video with a twist in its tail has been challenging people’s views on marriage this week. In the same vein as New Zealand's drin...

'Asian Brown Cloud' Activates Pre-Monsoon Cyclones which now Threaten Megacities of Mumbai and Karachi

Rolf Schuttenhelm | Posted 06.01.2012 | UK Tech
Rolf Schuttenhelm

White sulfur aerosols cool the climate; black carbon soot warms the climate. So when you mix the two kinds of aerosol pollution up in the Asian brown cloud, one would expect climate effects to even out. Unfortunately in our physical world things are never that simple.

Is My Indian Food the Same As Yours?

Maunika Gowardhan | Posted 12.10.2011 | UK Lifestyle
Maunika Gowardhan

Born and raised in Mumbai and having done a fair bit of travelling around India has given me not just the best experiences but also the opportunity of...

Security Chiefs Probe Fatal Blasts In Mumbai

Posted 12.09.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Indian officials have called an emergency security meeting to investigate three co-ordinated bombings that killed at least 21 peo...

Explosions Hit Mumbai, Minister Says Many Dead

Posted 12.09.2011 | UK

Three near-simultaneous explosions have shaken India's commercial capital Mumbai (Bombay), police say....

Michael Rundle

Amidst Horror Of Mumbai Twitter Creates 'World's Most Moving Spreadsheet'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Rundle | Posted 12.09.2011 | UK

Twitter users are used to seeing reports quickly spread of injuries and misery in the aftermath of a terrorist attack or disaster. True to form, as...