Raymond Bickson, chief executive officer and managing director of Taj Hotel, said on Saturday that there has been no indication from the investigating agency that any employee or contractual staff, of the hotel, have been involved in the terror attack as is being reported by a section of the media.
Police are yet to contact banks whose credit cards are said to have been found from terrorists who carried out brazen attacks on Mumbai.
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
While a certain number of the terrorists had already entered Mumbai and taken shelter in the two hotels, 12 more persons came into Mumbai through the sea-route. While initially it was suggested that the attackers came in from Karachi, investigators are also probing claims made by fishermen in Kerala that a ship unknown to their parts was sighted. The IB is now probing whether this was the mother ship that brought in the attackers
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"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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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.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday visited the Taj Mahal, but contrary to intense speculation he was not accompanied by his girlfriend Carla Bruni.
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'I am sure there were more than three terrorists in the Taj --we ourselves saw quite a few.' Also, Erika Mann feels there may have been more victims than the government allows: 'We saw so many bodies taken out.'
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'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.'
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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...
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.
The Taj Mahal Tower hotel, when it reopened on Sunday evening, unveiled a poignant memorial to the victims of the terror attack in its lobby atrium among lit Christmas trees, candles for the victims, reindeers and fairy lights.
The Taj Mahal hotel, ravaged during the 26/11 terror strikes, reopened on Sunday evening with its owner Ratan Tata dedicating the restored hotel to those who had lost their lives in the carnage."We cannot be knocked down--this is a memorable day and a tribute to those who saved many lives," an emotional Tata said, adding "it gives me a great sense of pride--this is the start of a new era."
Taj General Manager Karambir Kang, whose wife and two minor sons were killed in the deadly terror attack on the hotel, returned to work on Sunday.Kang's wife Nitti and two sons, Samar and Uday, who were put up at the sixth floor of the Heritage wing of the Taj Mahal Hotel, were killed in the terror attack on November 26 that lasted for nearly 60 hours.Despite losing his family, Kang continued to supervise rescue operations and helped guests at the hotel.
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Smeared with the other people's blood, Joey Jeetun laid completely still, fooling the terrorists who mistook him for dead.
It is hard for the lay observer to understand why it should take 60 hours for crack commandos of the National Security Guard to clear a hotel of four attackers.
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One of the commandos, who was part of the action in Taj Palace hotel, described to rediff.com how the drama unfolded and the ordeal they underwent to flush out the terrorists who had held the entire city ransom.
Hours after the last three terrorists were eliminated in Taj Mahal Hotel, Maharashtra Director General of Police A N Roy said his force would do whatever it could to catch the perpetrators of the terror strikes in Mumbai. "We have knocked down many and we will catch the rest," Roy said, when asked about the strategies being taken to arrest the people behind the terror acts in the metropolis
Mumbai-born Ghulam Noon, better known as Britain's 'Curry King' for his vast Indian food empire, was one of the guests at the Taj Mahal Hotel during the terror crisis but managed to escape.
Giving an account of the commando raid at the besieged Taj, the leader of Indian Navy's elite Marine Commandos (MARCOS) on Friday said his team saw about 50 dead bodies scattered through the hotel during the flush out operation.
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.
This made it difficult for the commandos to fire, to prevent an explosion.
"The flushing-out operations at these hotels, being undertaken jointly with National Security Guards, may be over sooner than expected were it not for our endeavour to ensure that there is no collateral damage," the sources said
P K Krishna Das, the Kerala Member of Parliament who was trapped at Mumbai's Taj Mahal Hotel, was rescued by the police and NSG commandoes at 9.45 am on Thursday. "It has been nightmarish 12 hours for me and two other MPs. The whole thing started around 0945 last night. We were about to have dinner at the Shamina restaurant. Suddenly, two gun-wielding men appeared out of nowhere and started shooting indiscriminately. I ducked under a table along with some others."
In a statement, Indian Hotels, a subsidiary of the Tatas, said, 'We will rebuild every inch that has been damaged in this attack and bring back the Taj to its full glory. The Taj is very much a symbol of India. We are monitoring the development of the unfortunate situation unfolding in South Mumbai in and around our hotel and are fully cooperating with the police and the government authorities to ensure the safety and security of all our guests and staff.'
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