Several sites in the major metropolitan city of Mumbai were attacked by terrorists the night of Nov. 26, 2008. The most prominent target was the Taj Mahal Hotel. More than 80 have been reported dead and 200 wounded in the attacks.
Life was very different for Sadashiv Chandrakant Kolke 12 months ago. He worked at a small restaurant in Mumbai and had a regular income, most of which he sent home to support his family. But everything changed on November 26 when he took a friend to the city's main railway station, just as two men walked on to the concourse and began firing indiscriminately with AK-47 assault rifles and lobbing hand grenades. The 39-year-old was one of more than 100 people injured at the Chhatrapati Shivaji... Read Full Story
Washington: news update, Warning of “phenomenal consequences” if the advance of terrorists in Pakistan was not controlled, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the world community to pressurise Islamabad to do much more to bring to book those responsible for the “horrible” 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
“We don’t want Pakistan to fail and emergence of democracy in Pakistan is something we welcome,” he said at the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading US think tank Monday. “But at the... Read Full Story
Mumbai remains a target one year on from a deadly militant attack, experts say, calling for more to be done to improve security in the city and elsewhere in India to prevent another strike. "Can 26/11 happen again? Yes, any time," warned retired Major General V.K. Datta, India's most decorated army officer, referring to the November 26 attacks that killed 166 people and injured more than 300 last year. The acting head of Maharashtra state police, A.N. Roy, said greater vigilance and better... Read Full Story
Bapu Kamble raised his right arm and pinched his thumb and forefinger together, as instructed by the photographer in front of Mumbai's Gateway of India monument and Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel. Minutes later, he received the 30-rupee (64 US-cent) print showing him "holding" the luxury seafront hotel from the tip of its majestic red dome. "I just wanted a picture of myself outside the Taj," said the 41-year-old from Kolhapur, in the centre of western Maharashtra state, grinning through... Read Full Story
Taj Hotel delays opening of two restaurants Taj Mahal Palace Hotel at Colaba delays reopening of its two restaurants, that was suppose to open this week. The opening date of Wasabi by Morimoto and Harbour Bar restaurant the two restobars that were among the three restaurants that were shattered in last year's terror strike and were under renovation has been postponed from November 25 to December1 Read Full Story
Brescia is a quiet town east of Milan and few would think of it as a hot spot for international terrorism. Yet Italian authorities believe that last year's terror attack in Mumbai (Bombay), where 173 people lost their lives, was partially planned from there....
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The general manager of Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel, Karambir Singh Kang, still works at the place where his wife and two children were killed. Neeti Kang, 40, Uday, 12, and five-year-old Samar were among the 31 people who died at the luxury seafront hotel after Islamist militants stormed the building on November 26 last year and began shooting. Kang, 41, who has worked for the Indian Hotels Co. Ltd that owns the Taj for 19 years, confronts his past every day when he crosses the... Read Full Story
The general manager of Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel, Karambir Singh Kang, still works at the place where his wife and two children were killed. Neeti Kang, 40, Uday, 12, and five-year-old Samar were among the 31 people who died at the luxury seafront hotel after Islamist militants stormed the building on November 26 last year and began shooting. Kang, 41, who has worked for the Indian Hotels Co. Ltd that owns the Taj for 19 years, confronts his past every day when he crosses the... Read Full Story
An Indian woman walked past a wall pock-marked with bullet holes opposite the now deserted Nariman House-cultural and religious centre of the ultra orthodox Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Mumbai. --PHOTO: AFP
As we near the one year anniversary of the Mumbai Attacks on November 26, 2008, victims recall the horror. Link to article in Straits Times .
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Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, chief of an Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa, leaves after appearing before the judicial review board of High Court in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Saeed was detained under house arrest last year as part of Pakistan's investigation into the Mumbai attacks. Come Friday prayers in Lahore, it is not hard to find the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks. Hafiz Mohammed Saeed is neither in hiding nor in jail. The founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba is instead... Read Full Story
