'And be confident that we will do a successful operation... Don't ask for a deadline. It is very difficult to say in such cases,' says Major General R K Hooda.
All hostages at Taj Hotel in Mumbai have been rescued, but there could be some still trapped at Trident hotel and Nariman House where operations were on to flush out terrorists, Maharashtra police chief A N Roy said on Thursday, ruling out any negotiations with the terrorists.
The director of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, and his wife Rivika are suspected to be among those being held hostage at its office in Nariman House, Colaba in South Mumbai, by terrorists since Wednesday night
The five-judge Constitution bench said that it is the devotion which makes a woman to visit a temple.
"The right to enter a temple is not dependent on a legislation. It is the constitutional right," the bench said.
The verdict is likely to be pronounced before October 2 this year as Justice Misra would be retiring as CJI on that day.
In the 1990s, Lufthansa's market share was plunging as were its revenues. Its turnaround strategy holds good lessons.
Nariman Farvardin, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Maryland, who made the announcement at the conclusion of a national search, said, "Anandalingam, who will succeed Howard Frank, takes over the Smith School at a time when strong leadership and vision are needed to implement the university's bold new strategic plan, which charts a course for Maryland to be one of the world's best universities within 10 years."
Was Kerkar duped by his employees, as he claims, or did a cocktail of greed, poor cost control and bad management bring the travel firm down, wonder Pavan Lall and Aneesh Phadnis.
Slumdog Millionaire is contrived, pretentious, absurd, hollow, inauthentic, a pseudo-statement about social justice. And yet today the film stands on the precipice of Hollywood's highest honour, the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Kamala Das was one of the finest and truest poets of her generation.
The Supreme Court on Friday permitted Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, accused in 1993 Mumbai bomb blast case, who is on bail, to proceed to Africa after his return from abroad on September 18.
The Oberoi Group, which is reopening 100 rooms of the Trident portion on Sunday, said on Saturday that the Oberoi portion, badly damaged in the November 26 terror attack, would take six to seven months to start business.
The Centre has appointed a six-member committee to consider issue of alternative route to save Ram Sethu.
'American-Israelis know the dangers involved. They know they can be targeted, so they always take precautions. Security is important to them,' says Rabbi Sharon Benjamin Galsulkar.
The taxi driver that took us back to office remarked, "Two days there was no traffic on the streets, today the crowds are back.
Sources in the disaster management cell of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said 195 people were killed, including 10 foreigners and 15 police personnel. Besides, 295 others were wounded
The two sniffer dogs of the National Security Guards (NSG) went about their task with diligence for about 15 hours during the encounter in the Nariman House along with their masters -- the commandos-- and are no strangers to life threatening situations.
"There were some pretty scary moments while we were fighting fires at the Taj Hotel. On Thursday night, while we were in a cage trying to rescue guests trapped in the heritage section of the hotel, we saw one of the terrorists carrying a gun," Chief Fire Officer A V Sawant told PTI.
Sources in the disaster management cell of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said 195 people were killed, including 10 foreigners and 15 police personnel. Besides, 295 others were wounded
The brutal killings of the New York-raised Gavriel and his wife Rivkah by terrorists, who had taken over the Nariman building in Mumbai, has plunged the Jewish community here into grief.
The gruesome siege drama in Mumbai has claimed the lives of at least 13 foreign nationals and left 22 of them injured.According to Union Home Ministry data released on Thursday evening, eight foreign nationals were dead and 22 injured in the Mumbai terror attacks. These figures do not include the death of five Israelis in Nariman House, whose killing was confirmed later by National Security Guards chief J K Dutt.
Mumbai has been under terrorist attack for over 54 hours, and the whole city is waiting with bated breath for the horror to end. But for some, 'terrifying' doesn't even begin to describe it. Hundreds of people have been trapped inside the Taj Hotel, Hotel Trident and the Nariman Bhavan since Wednesday night. A lot of these hostages are foreigners, who are scared stiff at this horrific experience in a foreign land.They had been trapped and not allowed to leave.
As the terror drama unfolded in Mumbai, social networkers and bloggers rapidly posted pictures of the ongoing events and sent sms-es over phone to whet the growing hunger for information and reports of live unedited action.
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The plant had been kept shut in violation of the order of the NGT and a subsequent interim order of the top court.
A curative petition is the last and final judicial remedy available to a person convicted by courts of law.
In a new twist, Chief Justice of India H L Dattu has refused to participate in a three-member panel for selecting two eminent persons in the six-member National Judicial Appointments Commission on whose validity a constitution bench began hearings on Monday.
Hotel expects 25-30 per cent occupancy on December 21 when it throws open its doors. Trident regulars are preparing to return to the hotel sooner than later.
India's Muslims need to be seen as a potential asset, rather than a liability, in the struggle against terrorism. Scores of Indian ulema or Islamic clerics are now openly castigating all forms of terror, organising mass rallies and even issuing fatwas to get the message across. The Indian State and civil society urgently need to realise that hounding the Indian Muslims can only play into the hands of outfits of groups like the Lashkar
Haim Weingarten, the head of a seven-man team of Israel Police's victim identification unit (ZAKA), which is in Mumbai, told the Jerusalem Post: 'Based on what I saw, although I cannot identify the type of bullets in the bodies of the victims, I don't think the terrorists killed all the hostages, to put it gently.'
East India Hotels chairman P R S Oberoi on Saturday said that the group hoped to reopen its Trident hotel at Mumbai's Nariman Point earlier than the adjacent Oberoi hotel, though an assessment of the damage caused by the terrorist attacks was yet to be completed.
An ATS official and an NSG commando who came outside the Taj Mahal hotel for a breather told rediff.com that it is a do or die situation inside the hotel. "We have been firing, searching and retreating for a while as the terrorists go back into hiding," they said. "We have no option but to either kill them or capture them. The manner in which the terrorists are holding fort and retaliating, makes it clear that they are here only for destruction and nothing else."
The National Security Guard, which is engaged in a gun battle with the terrorists at Taj Hotel in Mumbai, said all but one terrorists were killed in the encounter and hoped to wrap up the flush-out operation at the Trident-Oberoi hotel and Nariman House very soon."There is one terrorist in the Taj Hotel. He has been injured and I think we will be able to mop up the operation there very quickly," Director General of NSG J K Dutt said.
The deadly terror attacks, which crippled Mumbai on Thursday also, will not be able to dent the confidence of India's banking and financial system, which, bankers feel, will bounce back to normal soon.
As of now, BCCI CEO Rahul Johri, along with GM MV Sridhar, is likely to look after the day-to-day functioning of the board.
The British Council in Mumbai is offering Studying in the UK briefings for students departing for UK studies.
The British Council in India provides a UK pre-departure orientation for students heading to the UK.
The Supreme Court today dismissed a PIL seeking that the Leader of Opposition status in Lok Sabha be granted to Congress party, saying it cannot decide political issues filed under the garb of Public Interest Litigation.
The whole month of November, British Council will provide workshops and seminars around India in order to raise awareness about education opportunities in the UK.
