(2002 est. pop. 12.1 million). Bombay, renamed Mumbai in June 1981, is on the western coast of India. Endowed with a natural harbor and a wide bay facing Africa and East Asia, the city is partly on Bombay Island and other smaller islands in the harbor...

Coordinates: 18°58′N 72°49′E / 18.96,...

At least 26 people were killed and 15 others injured when a seven-story building collapsed in Mumbai, officials said Thursday as rescue workers pulled survivors and bodies out of the rubble.Several others were feared trapped in the rubble of the residential building in Mumbai's Borivali...

Elephants _ long revered in India as symbols of wisdom and good fortune _ are no longer allowed in Mumbai.The state government has banned domesticated elephants from India's largest city, saying that forcing the animals to walk the city's chaotic, crowded and polluted streets was...

Thousands of Mumbai residents lit candles, offered flowers and bowed their heads in remembrance of the 188 people killed a year ago Wednesday when bombs ripped apart seven commuter trains in this city.Commuters placed red and white flowers and burned incense sticks at suburban railway...

Three Muslim men on Wednesday received the first death sentences for a series of bombs that ripped through India's financial capital in 1993, killing 257 people in the country's deadliest terrorist attack.Parvez Shaikh, Mushtaq Tarani and Abdul Ghani Turk appeared calm as they were sentenced...