Maharashtra could become the gateway for the rest of the country.
People carrying candles and placards in memory of the victims reached the Gateway, some of them in processions via Dadabhai Naoroji Road and paid tributes to those who had fallen to the terrorists' bullets and grenades, including brave heart policemen and NSG commandos.
Six years after the twin blasts at Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, a special Prevention of Terrorism Act Court in Mumbai has given death sentence to all the three accused in the heinous crime.
Khushroo Antia who will appear for CAT 2009 tells us why he'd rather choose a foreign university over a tier two B-school in India.
The book The Silver Screen & Beyond, Up Close and Personal with the Bombay Film Industry is an interesting collection of pictures of the goings-on of the Hindi film industry.
In a new series, we get CAT aspirants to share their experiences. Akhila Natrajan spells out her mantras.
When the very mention of the word 'Kamasutra' may raise many eyebrows, a school in Florida, US, has made it a part of its vocabulary in history textbooks to the chagrin of many parents.
The Sri Lankan government has taken steps to ensure that the top Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam leadership, including its supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, from fleeing the country amidst fears that the Tamil Tigers could use their recently acquired aircraft to make their gateway.
Terrorists of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks had planted two powerful bombs with timers in metal boxes at different places near the Taj hotel with notes scribbled in Urdu saying "Yeh jung ki aur ishara hai" (this is pointer to war), a witness told the trial court in Mumbai on Wednesday.
"I am glad." That is how former external affairs Yashwant Sinha reacted to Prachanda's resignation as Nepal Prime Minister. Sinha was addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Monday.
The airline has closed reservation for flights to Silchar, Imphal, Aizawl, Jorhat in northeastern states from mid-February. Reservation has also been closed for flights to Madurai, Visakhapatnam, Raipur, Muscat and Sharjah.
Deepti Dadlani, who rallied along with thousands at the Gateway of India in a show of solidarity and protest, shares her thoughts and tries to make sense of the violence of November 26.
Three persons, including a woman, were on Thursday sentenced to death by a special court for their involvement in the 2003 blasts at the iconic Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai, which claimed 54 lives and injured 244 others.
Standing shattered behind the Gateway of India with soot marred walls, bullet riddled doors, broken window panes and splinter marks, the terrorist-hit structures are now the most sought after tourist destinations in the city.Welcome to the world of 'disaster tourism' as many call it, where Taj Mahal and Oberoi Hotel along with Nariman House and of course the Leopold Cafe have become the favourite spots to be thronged by the average Mumbaikar.
Unlike his The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra's Photograph fails to engross us, feels Ritwik Sharma.
A special Prevention of Terrorism Act court on Monday found the three accused in the six-year-old Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar twin blasts case guilty.The accused Haneef Sayyed, 46, an auto driver, his wife Fahmeeda, 43 and Ashrat Ansari, 32, were held guilty by the POTA Court.On August 25, 2003, two bombs left in taxis exploded in south Mumbai --- at the Gateway of India and at Zaveri Bazaar in the busy Kalbadevi area -- killing 52 people and wounding over a hundred.
Ride-hailing services are also lobbying the government for the recognition of a new category for motorcycle-shared services, where the owner should not have to take a commercial licence. Pooled services is another area where taxi aggregators are hoping to make the government listen to them.
The government on Thursday decided to act tough on the casinos, credit cards and money changers by bringing them under the ambit of money laundering law.
After the Amendment Bill is passed by Parliament and comes into effect, businesses like casinos would also come under a legal obligation to report their activities in the country. For fighting the menace of terrorism, the Bill introduces new category of offences which have cross-border implications. The draft legislation also empowers the Enforcement Directorate 'to search premises immediately after the offence is committed.'
However, passenger traffic between the two sectors would be served via Jet Airways' London Gateway in co-operation with partner airlines, Jet Airways said. Jet Airways has already announced a code share partnership with United Airlines with convenient connections between Mumbai and several US points via London in both directions, the company said.
Shivaji made sure that his soldiers respected the sanctity of mosques and the Quran Sharif to ensure that his fight against the Mughals did not become fight against Islam, explains Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Apart from mobile apps, 611 websites with the .in domain in the country were also found to be vulnerable, the Trend Micro survey reveals.
At 6 pm on December 3, Mumbai's youth intend to stage a 'non-cooperation' movement of sorts at the Gateway of India. Suparn Verma, filmmaker and ex-rediff employee, has spearheaded the protest, inviting everyone to join him.
Even as the world expresses shock over the barbarity and the level of preparedness of the fidayeen attacks on Mumbai, the Intelligence Bureau has said that the assault was being planned for the last six to seven months.
Cold wave conditions continued unabated in Kashmir Valley owing to the dry weather even as the weatherman predicted some respite next week with the possibility of isolated rains or snowfall.
Anand's family asserts that racial bias has influenced the investigation, and they also claim numerous instances of prosecutorial misconduct.
For most of us, the abject terror of a month ago in Mumbai is difficult to understand. But, as we seek answers and action, I believe we cannot stop looking at the good amongst us. The good in Mumbai, which I learnt as a 20-year-old, was that Mumbai is for all and does not delineate by any thread that separates us. And thus, my respite comes by not visiting just my temple but by everyone else's.
Hidden, crouching in the darkness, Santosh pulled out his cell phone and called his family. They were angry that he was not home yet. "Leave the bus," said his mother sternly. "Just come back home. There is no need to put your life at risk." They believed that, when your time was up, no one could prevent death; but they thought he was being unnecessarily stupid...
'The multitudes come and mourn in their own ways, hang around and greet new arrivals, share news and information, rumour and suspicion, and above all, anger.
Today was the beginning; a humble beginning if you want to call it that, but one that will rock the foundations of many hard-held beliefs, one that will show the rest of the country what committed citizens can do if they only step out of their comfort zone.
More becomes only the ninth person in the world to complete the marathon swim
This made it difficult for the commandos to fire, to prevent an explosion.
The order was passed with dissent by two members, and four members feeling that there had been abuse of the search engine's dominant position.
The unpredictability is seen in the number of questions, the number of sections, the marking scheme, negative marking, duration of the test and most importantly in the composition of the test.
International Centre for Education Inc, a forum dedicated to fostering international student recruitments, globally, is organising Fall Asia Middle East Expo (FAME 2006), an International Student Recruitment Fair in Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Pune
Commander Abhilash Tomy of the Indian Navy sailed the oceans and conquered likely death after a storm badly injured his spine and destroyed his boat. Archana Masih/Rediff.com met the decorated sailor who fought all odds to return home alive.
The competition to get a seat at the coveted Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is getting tougher with each passing year. Compared to an estimated 230,000 Common Admission Test (CAT) applications received in 2007, the country's seven IIMs have till date received around 290,000 applications a 26 per cent rise. Last year, the rise was 21 per cent.
The winner of Gateway to Hollywood Bejoy Nambiar speaks to rediff.com about winning and about himself.
