Six South African commandos were having dinner at a restaurant when terrorists struck Taj Mahal Hotel on Wednesday night. They handled the situation with aplomb, saving scores of persons from possible threat.The lives of 150 fellow guests were saved by the commandos through their presence of mind and skills to handle pressure situations.
Investigators working on the Mumbai terror attack have unearthed vital information about how the terrorists managed to enter Mumbai.The interrogations of the two arrested terrorists, Abu Ismail and Ajmal Kamal, have revealed that 20 men were involved in the terror attack. While eight terrorists set up base in Hotel Trident and Taj Mahal Hotel, 12 others came to Mumbai in a boat.
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Following the horrific terror attacks in Mumbai that have left more than 100 people dead and 300 injured, Ratan Tata, chairman Tata Sons and of Indian Hotels Co Ltd -- which owns the Taj group of hotels -- has condemned the killing of innocent people.
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'We are trying to harden the targets. We have so many soft targets. Hardening of even one of them in itself becomes a challenge... If you go by all the alerts that have come, including the targets tracked down by David Headley, there are more than 115 targets in Mumbai city. Even if you try to harden all those targets, every day new targets are coming up. Now you have to add all these new hotels and restaurants,' Rajvardhan, the daring police officer who fought the terrorists at the Taj Mahal hotel on 26/11, tells Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel in the second part of a three-part exclusive interview.
Reader Jitendra Dhulekar sent us this picture from Sri Lanka.
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Shot in Kerala during the pandemic, the Kingfisher Calendar 2021 introduces five new faces: Gehna Mahiarya, Krithika Babu, Adline Castelino, Sumita Bhandari and Anukreethy Vas.
The country's largest hotel firm, Indian Hotels Company, reported a net profit of Rs 234 crore, a fall of 38 per cent from the previous financial year.
Back in India, Nirmalya Kumar says he has achieved the academic goals he had set and it is now time to learn new things.
'Kashmir came out as a theme that appealed to her and instantly it also hit a home run with all of us.'
"The National Security Guards is here. They are carrying out a very deliberate operation. They are trained for it and are the best in the country. I have faith in them," Major General R K Hooda, General Officer Commanding, Maharashtra area, told reporters outside the hotel
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Famous and long believed to be trusted Indian brands have wilted against foreign brands, says Mohan Guruswamy.
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The price is expected to remain around Rs 700,000 to Rs 900,000.
"I tell all my guys in the office to see this as running a marathon. The front runners are a million times our size. In a marathon, you don't run in front of the pack; you stay in the back and wait for your turn, otherwise you'll run out of steam."
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The couple, along with a Chinese, a South African and an Australian national, was rescued from the hotel by the elite National Security Guards late Thursday night.
The Congress won 77 seats or 42% of seats in the 2017 polls. How then can Gujarat be called a BJP bastion, asks Sanjeev Nayyar.
The staccato burst of gunfire at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai at 9.21 pm on Wednesday night hardly gave an inkling of the shape of things to come up in the next two to three hours.
The Hospitality sector isn't showing any sign of recovery. The sector is nowhere near the growth it saw between 2004 and 2008.
Indrani was spiritedly telegraphing details of the jewellery from the back of the court...
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Rediff readers shared these pictures of the Shore temple in Tamil Nadu.
This 75-year-old hallowed store in Mumbai supplies shoes to Amitabh Bachchan, Tatas, Birlas among others.
The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, Mumbai, invites application for Front Office Executives.
The Filmfare OTT awards 2021 were held at Mumbai's Taj Lands End hotel, and the big winners of the night were quite expectedly, Scam 1992 and The Family Man 2.
US-headquartered Harvard Business School (HBS) has finally found an address for its executive education classroom in India. The B-school, beginning this March, will offer executive programmes at the Taj Lands End, at Bandra, in suburban Mumbai.
United Progressive Alliance Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee spent the whole of Tuesday in Lucknow, meeting not only Congress legislators but also those belonging to the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.
India defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets in the finals of the tournament.
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Hollywood heartthrob Tom Cruise, who is on a promotional spree for his upcoming action film Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, landed in New Delhi on way to Agra. The actor is accompanied by Anil Kapoor, his co-star in the film to visit the Taj Mahal. It is Cruise's first visit to India. Cruise, 49, looking dapper in a white t-shirt and khaki pants, arrived at 6 am and checked into a hotel.
In the book 10 Flashpoints: 20 years that is set to be released on December 2, the former union minister has looked back at the security situations that have impacted India in the last two decades.
an President Dimitry Medvedev, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazil President Dilma Rousseff and South African President Jacob Zuma will participate in the summit hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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