Dilip Waghmare stands opposite the Sundance Café outside Churchgate Station, holding on to the grille around the Oval Maidan as he watches a cricket match in progress.
“The State is simply wasting money and electricity to keep these bodies intact.” This was the view of. a forensic doctor in J J Hospital who, along with other doctors, had just finished inspecting the cold room and condition of bodies of the eight slain militants, which lie stacked inside.
India TV has sent in its defence to the I&B Ministry in response to the show-cause notice sent to it on airing a telephonic conversation with two terrorists holed up in Nariman House and The Oberoi Hotel.
The orphaned two-year-old baby Moshe and his nanny Sandra Samuel, along with his maternal grandparents, left for Israel tonight in a special Israeli military aircraft from Mumbai.
With evidence of Pakistani links to the audacious Mumbai terror attacks coming to light, the CPI(M) wants the UPA Government to internationalise India’s diplomatic offensive against Islamabad by taking the proof to the UN Security Council.
Navy Chief Sureesh Mehta was asked by Defence Minister AK Antony to explain the failure of the Navy and the Coast Guard to act on specific information provided by intelligence agencies that could have prevented terrorists who carried out the Mumbai attack from reaching the Indian coast.
With the BJP engaged in a full-blown war of words with the Congress on terror in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, the RSS sounded a word of caution, saying that “discourse on terror must transcend narrow political considerations.”
While the opposition BJP accuses the Congress-led UPA Government of adopting a “soft-on-terror” stance, the UPA allies are in no mood to share the blame.
BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has come under a severe attack from women parliamentarians, cutting across party lines, for suggesting that “women wearing lipstick and powder” have taken to streets in Mumbai, “leading marches against the political class”.
The Indian manufacturing sector suffered its first contraction during November since April 2005 with levels of production and incoming new orders both down sharply, according to the latest data from ABN Amro.
Terror-hit Trident hotel, belonging to the Oberoi, is likely to reopen within a fortnight. However, The Oberoi — the second hotel in its complex —will take a couple of months, according to officials in EIH, the company that owns the two hotels.
