Mr Ali, who owns Eastern Spices and Bollywood Bites in the Canonmills area of the city and Bombay Feast in Drylaw, carries out regular charity work.

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Some reached Iraq with the help of Nepalese agents operating illegally while others first went to the Indian city of Bombay (Mumbai ), from where they headed to Iraq.

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Donning a Batman costume - complete with flapping cape - the portly Bombay businessman drove around the city "busting" prostitutes, homosexuals and drunks.

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Launched in January in Pune, a trendy city 180 km from Bombay, the Emerging Presidents' Group includes Rathi and two dozen other top executives aged 21 to 35.

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Mr Dhoble is making a speciality of dusting off old edicts alcohol was banned in the state of Maharashtra, which the city of Mumbai (then Bombay) dominates, until 1963.

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Powerful explosives were packed into cars and scooters parked near India's main Bombay Stock Exchange and other sites in the city.

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An example is the expanding ghetto behind the Bombay Hotel in Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city.

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Gupta and Lal are just two of thousands of victims of a new and vicious crime wave that has cast a pall of fear over Bombay, India's commercial and cultural center and a city that has always thrived on boisterous ostentation.

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