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.
The ungainly barricades surrounding the Taj Mahal and Trident hotels, the indifferently manned metal detectors at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the strong smell of fresh paint at Nariman House and a bullet lodged on the cracked surface of a table at Leopold Cafe.
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The American-Pakistani terrorist's deposition will resume on Thursday.
Nehru decided to build The Ashok in New Delhi to host a UNESCO conference. For a prime minister focussed on India building with projects like the Bhakra-Nangal Dam, IITs and factories, "the hotel spoke of the gumption of the country at that time." Manavi Kapur traces the eventful journey of the hotel, which has now completed 60 years.
The three Saudi diplomats rescued on Thursday have been shifted to the Saudi consulate in Mumbai while eight others, one of them a young boy, will be flown back to the country today, a Saudi Gazette report said
The agency also recovered an electronic circuit used in making explosives from the rented flat of the terror suspects in Pune's Kondhwa area along with 500 GB data from the devices, he said.
Milind Deora was the Member of Parliament who represented Mumbai South, which was the theatre of the deadliest terror attack on Indian soil.
The room rate for the presidential suite, spread over 12,000 sq ft and with an exclusive entrance and a private elevator, is exactly double that of most other expensive suites in India.
But if you carefully touch the glass of the window you realise it isn't there. It probably cracked, or was blown away, during a grenade attack or gunfire on November 26, or in the hours after that, when 31 people, including 12 Taj staffers, including seven chefs, were killed. It is a small scar, still visible in the newly re-opened hotel.
Professor of marketing at London Business School, Nirmalya Kumar knows marketing like the back of his hand and, therefore, made a scintillating presentation 'Winning at Retail' at Mumbai's the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel on Wednesday.
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Shreekant Sambrani remembers P R S 'Biki' Oberoi, personal friend and hospitality icon, who passed into the ages this week.
'Since I felt there could be more, I had told the local authorities to screen every hostage carefully, since we felt that some could have been staying as guests.'
The list of guests included celebrities from across the globe, politicians, the who's who of Hindi and south Indian cinema world and almost all the top cricketers of the country.
Kiara and Sid may join the long list of celeb couples, who have chosen the beautiful destination of Rajasthan for their wedding.
Leading hotels are taking all precautions but the unusual service the staff has been pressed into puts them at the forefront of COVID fight.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Prince William and Kate Middleton arrived in Mumbai on Sunday as part of their seven-day tour of India and Bhutan, aimed at building up strong bonds with the two countries.
Indian Hotels rolls back its multi-brand strategy to focus solely on luxury, looks to paint all its properties with the Tajness brush.
Indian Army personnel on Wednesday conducted yoga sessions at more than 100 locations along the country's land and maritime borders, forming a 'Bharatmala' on the occasion of the International Day of Yoga.
He also said that when it comes to proscribing some terrorists, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has 'regrettably' been unable to act in some cases because of 'political considerations'.
India on Friday summoned a senior diplomat of the Pakistani high commission on the 13th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, and pressed for an expeditious trial in the case, saying the families of 166 victims from 15 countries are still awaiting closure.
An eight-member Pakistani judicial commission team crossed into India from the Wagah border check post in Punjab on Saturday to conduct the much-delayed cross-examination of witnesses in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which claimed 166 lives.
In a strongly-worded reaction on the issue, Spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said India has repeatedly called on Pakistan to give up its 'obfuscation and dilatory tactics' in discharging its international obligations in the trial of Mumbai terror attacks.
The visit of an eight-member Pakistani judicial commission to India to cross-examine witnesses of the Mumbai terror attacks has been delayed by four days due to "non availability of flight".
Mumbai is observing the sixth anniversary of the dastardly attacks that shook the city
The vegetarian delicacies served included coriander shorba, aloo tikki with palak papdi, zarkhez zameen (seasonal vegetable cooked in its juice) and dal raisina.
Key 26/11 plotter Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal's lawyer on Monday informed a Mumbai court that he wanted to cross-examine Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley for four days.
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Even though the NIA claims that more than 90 per cent of cases charge-sheeted have ended in conviction, the figure is likely misleading. To date, very few cases investigated by the NIA have resulted in a completed trial, points out former CBI joint director Navneet Rajan Wasan.
Observing that the horse-drawn carriages, famously known as Victoria, plying in Mumbai were "illegal and it violated the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act", the Bombay high court on Monday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to completely ban them after a year.
'Don't be surprised if the Census forms come with a caste box.' 'I will be surprised if it doesn't. It will be a point conceded to Rahul Gandhi and his allies,' asserts Shekhar Gupta. The BJP machine could take all 3 in its stride, but this election has changed that, notes Shekhar Gupta.
About 22,300 NRIs across UAE participated in the survey which was conducted to understand the reason of buying property in India, preferred cities for investments, type of property, time frame, budget and finances planned. Indian cities are also in the top 25 real estate destinations in the Asia Pacific region for real estate investment destinations.
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