Ten years back, 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists sailed into Mumbai from Karachi and carried out coordinated attacks that lasted three days. The terrorists carried out bomb explosions and holding innocents hostage as a fight back by security forces continued for the next 60 hours. Taj Mahal Palace hotel, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, Leopold Cafe were targetted in the attack that made headlines across the world.
He was in Mumbai to flag off the Deccan Odyssey, via video conferencing from the Darbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan.
Addressing a gathering after unveiling the statue of Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji near the international airport, Prime MInister Vajpayee said Dharavi has graduated from being a slum area to an economic hub housing small scale units.
This is part of beefed-up security measures following two blasts in the city.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated and laid foundation stones of development projects worth more than Rs 38,000 crore in different sectors in Mumbai, giving a big push to infrastructure, urban travel and healthcare ahead of civic polls in the city in which the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction will seek to showcase these ventures to take on their political rivals.
The plane made an emergency landing at the airport at around 3 pm, he said.
Wadia is also reported to have said he was not detained.
The police had sought Namdeo's custody to interrogate him for the illegal confinement of his colleagues.
He had killed his senior and held six colleagues hostage for seven hours at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai.
Among those who remembered the slain bravehearts, who fell to bullets of Pakistani terrorists while repulsing the deadly attack on this day 11 years ago, were their kin, politicians, government officials, sports persons and common citizens.
Punjab were 278 for 5 on the first day of the Ranji Trophy match against Maharashtra.
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The ordeal of an innocent man who was jailed for 50 days.
'We have not even been involved in a civil case. So you could well imagine what my family must have gone through when this happened... There are relatives who still do not talk to us. My family is still in a state of shock,' says Lakshmana K Kailash, the software engineer who spent 50 days in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Free power and waiver of farmers' loans and reservation in jobs and education for women are among the various promises made in the Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena manifesto released on Tuesday in Mumbai.
Registering a steady increase for the 36th day in a row, the active cases have increased to 14,71,877 comprising 10.46 per cent of the total infections.
A mob, protesting against a book on Chhatrapati Shivaji by a foreign author, on Monday stormed the Bhandarkar Research Institute in Pune and damaged several rare books, manuscripts and furniture.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday visited the state secretariat 'Mantralaya' for the first time after recovering from a spine surgery which he underwent in November last year, and asked the state administration to focus on paperless governance with increased use of technology.
While returning to the bay, the nosewheel of the aircraft ran into soft ground.
All long distance trains from Mumbai remain cancelled: CR
A Central Railway official said they have introduced 10 AC local services on the CR's main line for the first time, replacing the ordinary suburban services, on an 'experimental basis' and they hope to get a good response for it.
A Paris-bound Air-India flight with 428 passengers on board on Friday made an emergency landing an hour after it took off from the city's international airport, officials said.
Ramnarayan Namdeo, who killed his senior and held six colleagues hostage last week, claims he would have been better off if he had shot himself after the crime, according to police.
Punjab bagged two points by virtue of their 98-run first innings lead as their match against Maharashtra ended in a draw.
He said his party had sent a letter to the state election commission about the new flag and that it was one of the many flags registered three to four years ago.
Referring to the demand of giving a Kunbi certificate to all 54 lakh people whose proof of being Kunabi has been found till now, Patil said that they will be given the certificates soon.
Neither side has called off the oldest political alliance in the country, but if a Shiv Sena poster, published by Economic Times on Tuesday, is any indication, then the Bharatiya Janata Party has been condemned to eternal damnation.
Rs 19 crore -- that is the compensation paid so far by the central and state government to victims of the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai.
'One after the other, they have committed four murders (Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi, Gauri Lankesh)...' 'They feel they will not have to face the consequences of their actions as it is a favourable time for them.'
Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde was on Thursday sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister, while the BJP's Devendra Fadnavis took oath as deputy chief minister.
'Uddhavji will face the no confidence motion on the floor of the House whenever it happens.'
The airport operator currently levies a development fee of Rs 600 from an international passenger and Rs 100 from a domestic traveller.
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