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India Gazette Tuesday 1st December, 2009 Mumbai, Dec 1 : The Maharashtra Assembly will today initiate a debate on the Pradhan Committee Report into the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

As India mourned victims of the 26/11 terror attack, the Maharashtra government Thursday unveiled Force One, an elite force to secure Mumbai against terrorists.

A North West Euro MP has recalled the life-changing moment he stared a gun-wielding terrorist in the face and saw 12 people shot dead.

Pakistani-Canadian denies involvement in Mumbai attacks This image taken from video shows a courtroom artists drawing of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, center, 48, charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper, as he appears at a bond hearing before federal Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan Wednesday, Oct.

The trial court in the Indian city of Mumbai has removed the main lawyer for the leading suspect in last November's deadly attacks in the city.

New Delhi, Nov 27: Over Rs.1.15 crore were raised in aid of the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks at a charity event in London attended by Bollywood stars and members of British royalty, a statement said Friday.

'There is no religion of terrorism,' said Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan here Sunday evening at a public event a year after the Mumbai terror attacks.

NEW DELHI: The hugely competitive common admission test for admission into business schools went online for the first time Saturday, but several students had a harrowing time as computers crashed in 11 centres across the country.

NEW DELHI: Dressed in their finest, millions of Muslims Saturday thronged mosques across the country and then visited their relatives and friends to celebrate the festival of Eid-ul-Zuha. In the national capital, one of the main centres for the Eid festivities was the historic Jama Masjid where thousands gathered to offer prayers.

New Delhi News.Net Sunday 29th November, 2009 Port of Spain, Nov.29 : India's National Security Adviser M K Narayanan has said that New Delhi has no plans to interrogate either David Coleman Headley, an alleged Lashkar operative based in the United States of Pakistani origin, or his associate, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, in connection with 26/11.

Britain's most prominent Muslim businessman, who was trapped inside a burning hotel in the Mumbai terror attacks , is calling on the government to toughen measures against extremist preachers.

"We have to carry out continuous appraisals of Chinese military capabilities and shape our responses accordingly.

Ajmal Kasab and nine other terrorists who attacked Mumbai last year were in constant touch with top LeT commanders in Pakistan during the strikes and received instructions to kill "political leaders, foreigners and prominent personalities of India." This was stated in the six-page chargesheet filed against the seven suspects in custody in Pakistan, ...

A computer crash in an unspecified number of centres in six cities marred the start of the Common Admission Test that determines admission to over 100 business and management schools, a leading coaching centre said.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. IANS PORT OF SPAIN / NEW DELHI: Pakistan cannot prosecute Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, as there is insufficient evidence against him, the country's foreign minister said Saturday, even as he urged New Delhi to resume the ...

The Shiv Sena Saturday literally switched to silent mode as party chief Bal Thackeray's daughter-in-law Smita Jaidev Thackeray said she planned to join the Congress.

Daily Times Monitor LAHORE: International opinion and pressure from India combined with a refusal to engage in a dialogue will force Pakistan to change its attitude towards terror groups operating from there, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Friday.

Kolkata, Nov 27: Officers of the country's largest lender, the State Bank of India, Friday threatened to go on strike if the government failed to raise their pension by 10 percent as was done for other banks.

On November 26, 2008, ten terrorists stormed the city of Mumbai, India, opening fire at a train station and two luxury hotels.

Mumbai, Nov 27 : The Dubai debt trap saw the Indian bourses tumble steeply with the 30-scrip sensitive index of Bombay Stock Exchange nosediving by over 600 points and Nifty by nearly 200 points in mid-trade today.

This photograph taken on November 29, 2008 shows an Indian soldier aiming his weapon towards The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai.

MUMBAI: Amid reports about Mumbai Police Crime Branch Chief Rakesh Maria's offer to resign if Home Ministry does not clarify allegations levelled against him by Vinita Kamte, the slain IPS officer Ashok Kamte's widow today said she stands by each and every word in the book written by her.

Residents of the Indian city of Mumbai have commemorated the first anniversary of a three-day killing rampage that left 166 people dead and terrorised the country's commercial capital.

Kutch , Nov.26 : Indian paramilitary forces have heightened vigil along the Sir Creek area, 100 kilometres estuary that lies between Gujarat and the Pakistani province of Sindh.

A memorial for 18 security personnel, including National Security Guards commander Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, is to be unveiled by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram [ Images ] in Mumbai.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has said that the country has come out stronger learning many tough lessons from 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes.

The government's reluctance to respond to Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani's demand for coordinated action by various agencies to provide relief to people affected by 26/11 led to a heated exchange between Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee and Bharatiya Janata Party MPs in Lok Sabha Thursday.

Pakistani security agencies have detained a former army officer for possible links with two men arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges, an army spokesman said on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: Last year's Mumbai attacks ruptured a hopeful peace dialogue between India and Pakistan and thrust their relations back into a bitter impasse that neither side seems able to break.

On the eve of the first anniversary of the deadly terror attacks that paralyzed Mumbai for 60 terrifying hours, groups around the city held vigils, calling for police reform and painting murals to remember the 166 killed.

MUMBAI: Force One, Maharashtra's own elite security force designed on the lines of the National Security Guard , was commissioned Tuesday, just two days before the 26/11 anniversary.

The threat of Pakistan-based terrorism has been at the top of the agenda during Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington this week, writes Praveen Swami.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama. Arun Kumar WASHINGTON: Countering terrorist attacks and intelligence sharing may emerge as a key focus of the new framework of India-US relationship that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama are set to forge at their summit Tuesday.

The prosecution is all set to wind up the 26/11 terror attack case in a special court here on November 26, coinciding with the first anniversary of the dastardly strikes that left 166 dead.

A major attack in India -- still angry over an assault on Mumbai one year ago -- could trigger Indian retaliation in Pak.

Bids will close on December 9, while the price band would be announced on December 3. The proceeds would be used for its plans to increase generation capacity to 11,390 mw by 2015 from the present level of 995 mw and also for mining and transmission projects.

Nearly a year after the 26/11 terror strikes, 'Force One', an elite force formed for the security of the states on the lines of National Security Guards , became operational on Tuesday.

Security improvements described as 'symbolic' A year has passed since the deadly Mumbai militant attack, but it remains a target, according to experts, who called for more to be done to improve security in the city and elsewhere in India to prevent another strike.

For Indian brides buying jewellery, the bigger the better is the general rule, but record gold prices during this year's wedding season are forcing many to compromise.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives at the White House Tuesday wondering if his country remains the US priority under President Obama that it became under President Bush.

By Nadeem Sarwar Islamabad, Nov 23 As the families of the hundreds of victims killed or injured in last year's terrorist attacks in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai wait for justice, the Pakistani Islamist groups believed to be behind the carnage are still alive and kicking.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Sunday it was not clear if Pakistan's president was in control of the army and said Pakistan's objectives in Afghanistan were not necessarily those of the United States.

Is Elizabeth Hurley tiring of all things Indian? Mandrake asks only because the actress-turned-businesswoman was conspicuous by her absence at the launch of To India With Love, a fundraising book for the victims of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, to which she had contributed.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat Sunday criticised the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena for fuelling a language row by insisting on speaking only in Marathi even in the legislature.

Members of a Hindu hard-line political party on Friday ransacked the offices of an Indian television news channel in the western Indian city of Mumbai, using iron rods and baseball bats to beat employees and smash furniture.

An inquiry has revealed that the Indian Consulate in Chicago was guilty of a major security lapse while issuing visas to Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani- Canadian arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting terror strikes in India, and his wife.

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, best known for winning the British version of television show Celebrity Big Brother, married in a lavish ceremony in western India.

GENEVA: The US Saturday disclosed to India new information linking the terror plot hatched by expatriates David Coleman Headley and Tahawuur Rana with some elements in the ISI and said it will reveal the name of a key Pakistani national linked to the Mumbai carnage in a week's time.

Come Friday prayers in Lahore, it is not hard to find the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks.

READY TO FIRE: Indian soldiers take positions during a gun battle at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai last November Picture: REUTERS In almost every way, David Headley was the perfect neighbour.

Mumbai A local court on Saturday remanded all the 17 Shiv Sena members, arrested for attacking the IBN-Lokmat Marathi news channel office, to police custody till November 23.

Taking a cue from their colleagues in the Supreme Court, all the 54 judges of the Madras High Court led by Chief Justice HL Gokhale on Friday made their assets public on the court's website.

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said at a function that "locals must be given importance.

Indian troops stand guard near the Line of Control, the de facto India-Pakistan border earlier this year.

Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and providing logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities said.

The head of the IBN Lokmat, Nikhil Wagle, at his office after the attack by the Shiv Sena on Friday.

Tamil Nadu players celebrate after winning their Ranji Trophy match against Punjab on Friday.

Personnel of the State Reserve Police Force platoon, who were deployed at the Gateway of India in Mumbai to guard the Taj Mahal Hotel- one of the prime targets of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, were sent back to their barracks on Friday.

Suspected Shiv Sena activists vandalised the offices of a Marathi news channel in Mumbai and Pune and assaulted staff members including journalists for carrying reports that allegedly showed Bal Thackeray in bad light.

Yasin Merchant notched the tournament's highest break of 134 en route to the knock-out round of the ONGC-IBSF World snooker championship here Thursday along with a clutch of Indians, including Pankaj Advani and Geet Sethi.

At first glance, Moshe Holtzberg looks like any happy boy on the brink of his third birthday.

Perhaps more than anywhere else in Canada, Saskatchewan has a lot at stake as Prime Minister Stephen Harper tours India.

Two Chicago men accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper may have been involved in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities in that country say.

Trading their Blackberries for scrubbing brushes and their mansions for huts, a group of wealthy youth are gluing Indians to their TV screens in a country struggling to bridge the gap between poverty and prosperity.

The fortunes of India's richest citizens got a fresh boost from a resurgent stock market that gained two-thirds in the past year on the back of an economy growing at 6 per cent, the `Forbes' India Rich List' showed.

Azmi invites migrants to - Mumbai, a mini-UP' Abu Azmi, who faced the ire of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena for taking oath in Hindi in the Legislative Assembly, on Tuesday said that he would continue his fight for the - honour of migrants'. Speaking in Lucknow Azmi called Maharashtra and Mumbai a mini-Uttar Pradesh and invited people to work ...

ISLAMABAD: India has handed Pakistan more information about the deadly Mumbai attacks ahead of the first anniversary of the carnage that killed 166 people, Islamabad said Wednesday.

Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do -- he got his first haircut.

By Selig S. Harrison NEWSWEEK Published Nov 13, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Nov 23, 2009 http://www.newsweek.com/id/222631?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+newsweek/WorldNews+ >1=43002 By all rights, the United States and India should be bound together by the shared tragedies of 9/11 and last year's terrorist ...

New Delhi: Visiting Canadian Prime Minister, Steven Harper on Tuesday assured India of full cooperation in tracking down the links of Canada born Lashkar operative Tahawwur Rana.

ISLAMABAD: The Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday handed a fresh dossier on Mumbai attacks to the Pakistani high commissioner in New Delhi.

An Indian woman was granted a divorce on the grounds that her husband was cruel to stop her watching soap operas.

Leading theatre chain PVR Ltd today announced a cash-and-stock deal to buy out realtor DLF group's national multiplex chain, DT Cinemas.

NEW DELHI, NOV 16 The Centre has asked Maharashtra and state governments having nuclear installations to tighten security around such facilities to foil any possible terror attack.

Press Trust of India Posted: Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009 at 2247 hrs IST Updated: Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009 at 2247 hrs IST Mumbai: Samajawadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi on Monday approached the Maharashtra government, seeking 'Z' category security after MLAs of Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena assaulted him in the state Assembly last week.

A section of Air India pilots owing allegiance to the Indian Commercial Pilots Association today staged a silent march at the domestic airport in Mumbai to protest delay in payment of salaries and allowances.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 -- One India Bulls Centre, one of India Bull's most prestigious commercial developments in the heart of Mumbai's Central Business District, is having its elevators fitted with over 500 monochrome LCD elevator displays from E-Motive. The displays are being installed by elevator manufacturer ...

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Closer on the heels of the 'Wake Up Sid' - MNS row over the 'Bombay-Mumbai' do, comes yet another controversy.

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party's Maharastra unit chief Abu Asim Azmi was Monday all praises for master blaster Sachin Tendulkar for declaring that he was an Indian first and then a Maharashtrian.

Nearly a year after terrorist bullets snuffed the life forces of her husband and daughter, Nelson County resident Kia Scherr hopes her new Web site will help other people find positive forces in their own lives.

Mumbai, Nov 16 A key index of the Indian stock market made a significant upward jump shortly after the opening bell Monday.

Bangalore, Nov.15 : It's been almost a year to the Mumbai terror attack in which about at least 173 persons, including security men, died and 308 others suffered injuries, but for the families, who lost their beloved ones on duty, it remains a fresh but painful memory.

Intensifying its probe into suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley's role in the Mumbai terror attacks, a team of National Investigation Agency sleuths Sunday conducted raids at several places in Mumbai and is likely to question Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt's son Rahul over his alleged friendship with the Pakistan-born ...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has arrived in Mumbai at the start of a three-day visit to India.

New Delhi Nitin Gadkari appears set to become the next BJP President replacing Rajnath Singh in what is being projected as a generational change for the main opposition party.

B.RAMAN " The Mumbai Police and the Maharashtra Government continue to assert on the basis of the interrogation of the arrested perpetrator that only 10 terrorists were involved.

MUMBAI: Nearly a year after 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Maharashtra government has begun the process of strengthening its intelligence cadre with the deployment of the first batch of Force One, an elite commando force formed on the lines of National Security Guards .

NEW DELHI: As Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd landed in Mumbai, India Wednesday conveyed its concerns over recent attacks on Indian students in that country and stressed the need for Canberra to take "effective steps" to prevent recurrence of such incidents.

Mumbai: Bollywood filmmaker and social activist Mahesh Bhatt has claimed that his son Rahul remained silent on his association with US terror suspect David Coleman Headley only in the nationa s interest.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said on Saturday that he will "find out the truth" in the claims that ATS chief Hemant Karkare was killed in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks because of a faulty bulletproof jacket he was wearing.

Quoting a recent US report, Mumbai-based NGO a oeBombay Firsta has revealed that India is the second-worst terrorism afflicted country, following only Iraq, which saw eight terror attacks in 2008 alone and lost more than 3,500 lives in the last few years.

Cyclone Phyan broke a 43 year record when it made landfall north of the city of Mumbai, India during the evening hours on November 11.

Within a week of uncovering a Chinese sex workers' network here, Nepal police have now busted a budding sex empire run by an Indian with tentacles in major Indian metros and with audacious plans to expand internationally.

South East Asia News.Net Friday 13th November, 2009 A nuclear deal with India is a must to save Canada's nuclear industry, a respected Canadian daily said ahead of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's visit to India next week.

MUMBAI: American terror suspect David Headley had stayed at the Taj hotel here twice before the Mumbai carnage while his associate and Canadian Pakistani Hussain Rana was in this metropolis till five days before the attack fuelling suspicion of their link to the strike.

Kevin Rudd has invited a new wave of criticism in India by declining to apologise to Indian students subjected to criminal attacks in Australia.

India Gazette Friday 13th November, 2009 Mumbai, Nov 13 : Two coaches of a Satara bound train entering the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus , derailed outside platform number six here this morning.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Monday, November 09, 2009 -- D Y Patil University, Mumbai has chosen Campus Dimensions - fully integrated campus management solution from Dimensions Innovation Labs - to automate its Mumbai campus.

New Delhi, Nov 11 The union home ministry put its disaster management teams on alert in Maharashtra and Gujarat to meet any eventuality as Cyclone Phyan crossed India's west coast and weakened into a tropical storm Wednesday evening, bringing with it heavy rainfall.

In a rebuff to China, India on Thursday made it clear that any paper visa "stapled" to the passport in separate sheets rather than pasted will be treated as invalid for travel out of the country.

Mumbai does not need to be 'de-congested', it needs to redeploy its eastern seaboard.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made a surprise visit to Australian troops in Afghanistan.

NEW DELHI: India's National Investigative Agency has registered a case against David Coleman Headley, the Pakistan born American national who is in custody in the US for allegedly plotting terror attacks against India, home minister P Chidambaram said on Thursday.

Another 150 call centre jobs are to be created in Derry, it has been revealed. Business support company Firstsource plans to employ workers including customer support advisers and operations management.

NEW DELHI: Investigations into suspected terrorist David Coleman Headley's stay in India have led the sleuths to trace his footsteps in five cities.

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena and Raj Thackeray-led MNS on Tuesday came together to take on Samajwadi party MLA Abu Asim Azmi warning him against speaking against Sena supremo Bal Thackeray.

Schools and offices shut at noon, Mumbai got a little respite in the evening as cyclone Phyan bypassed the city.

Australian News.Net Wednesday 11th November, 2009 New Delhi, Nov.11 : Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will arrive in Mumbai this evening on a short six hour visit before emplaning for national capital New Delhi for talks with the Indian leadership, which are scheduled for Thursday.

The report also called for using water as a weapon to punish and pressurise Pakistan.

Baroda 319 for 8 trail Delhi 591 by 251 runs Scorecard Delhi ended the third day in Vadodara only two wickets away from winning first-innings points against Baroda.

A state legislator was attacked Monday when he attempted to take his oath of office in India's national language rather than a native one.

Paradip : Indian Navy has said that it has made all possible plans to ensure that a repetition of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack- like incident does not take place.

Kevin Rudd this week will attempt to boost Australia's economic and strategic ties with India, on his first visit to the subcontinent as prime minister.

Indian intelligence agencies along with Mumbai Police are probing if David Coleman Headley, who is currently in FBI custody, was in touch with the masterminds of the Laskhar-e Taiba and if he attended any of the training camps the ten Pakistan-based terrorists went through for the 26/11 terror strikes.

The Income Tax department has sought help from US-based Google and its gmail e-mail service to get details of messages relating to foreign investments as the investigation into charges of money laundering by former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda progresses, an official said on Monday.

MUMBAI/NASHIK/PUNE: The assault on Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi by MNS legislators inside Maharashtra assembly and the subsequent suspension today triggered violent protests in several parts of the state.

Four MNS legislators have been suspended for four years after they were charged with assaulting Abu Asim Azmi for his oath in Hindi Hardnews Bureau Those in the corridors of power never shy away from fomenting trouble.

Senior NCP leader R R Patil, who resigned in the aftermath of Mumbai terror attacks, has got back his old portfolio.

Strengthening security to avert a 26/11-type terror attack will be the top priority of the Maharashtra government, Home Minister R R Patil said in Mumbai on Monday.

Riding high on a 6-7 per cent expected economic growth and signs of global economy gradually bouncing back, India Inc is likely to hire 20-30 per cent more talent in 2010, a top industry official said.

MUMBAI: Allocation of portfolios of the 38 members in the Congress-NCP ministry in Maharashtra has been delayed, apparently due to claims by senior ministers over key departments.

Mumbai had a progeria case in 2003; two-year-old boy looked like an old man In a case in Mumbai in 2003, when the mother of a progeria-affected child heard the prognosis that her two-year-old's head was not going to shrink, that he would never grow hair and his tight, pinched skin wouldn't get softer, she wept.

Going to a bar in Mumbai no longer has to be about getting bitten by mosquitoes or perspiring.

Israeli security elements inspected the security level in India's Goa coast following recent alerts warning of threats to Israelis, the Times of India newspaper reported local security officials as saying.

NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal [ Images ], who will be deputy chief minister, was also sworn in.

The government has yet to grant permission to foreign journalists to cover the Dalai Lama's week-long visit to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh that begins Sunday, saying the applications are still 'under consideration'. The applications by 36 foreign journalists for restricted area permits , mandatory for foreigners wishing to travel to Arunachal ...

Roads were closed, shops shuttered and police on guard in Hasan Abdal, near Pakistan's capital, as about 2,000 Indian Sikh pilgrims defied advice in order to honour the founder of the faith.

When Ritu Sen, 23, went on a holiday to the Andaman islands, she was the only Indian woman in a swimsuit while others on the beach either wore salwar kameez or saris .

India Gazette Wednesday 4th November, 2009 Energy firm Cairn India, which operates the Mangala crude oil field in Barmer, Rajasthan, Wednesday said it had concluded an initial agreement to sell crude oil to Reliance Industries.

New Delhi, Nov 6 : US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer, who is on a visit to India, Friday said she would discuss a "bilateral agenda" on issues concerning women during her stay here.

Organisers of the 11th Mumbai Film Festival have given megastar Amitabh Bachchan a Lifetime Achievement award for completing 40 years in the entertainment industry.

India Gazette Friday 6th November, 2009 Mumbai, Nov 6 : Indian Coast Guard ships conducted an exercise off Mumbai coast on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: Pakistani militants intended to strike two elite boarding schools and a New Delhi military academy, Indian newspapers reported yesterday, citing officials and suspects arrested in the United States recently.

When Dhundiraj Govind Phalke decided to make a movie in 1911, he faced ridicule and a severe shortage of funds.

Sanjay Somany, a prominent industrialist, was arrested at the domestic airport in New Delhi after closed-circuit TV cameras indicated that he had stolen a blackberry phone of a passenger, police said on Tuesday.

Agencies New Delhi, Nov 2: Intelligence sources reveal that India is now on high alert against another Mumbai-type attack from sea, originating in Pakistan.

GVK Power and Infrastructure has approved a 12 percent stake acquisition in Bangalore International Airport Ltd from Zurich Airport for Rs.484 crore, the company said here Thursday.

The crowded city of Mumbai survives on the presence of sports clubs, which provide sporting facilities to their members across the city and are mandated and supported by the government.

Colaba may have always been Mumbai's hippest tourist district, but guides operating in the area, drenched in history, art and architecture, now have a few additions to their South Mumbai itinerary: Alongside the customary visits to Gothic buildings and Dhobi Ghat, the new 'places of interest' they offer foreign and Indian tourists comprise what ...

NEW DELHI: India accused the European Union on Wednesday of violating WTO norms by confiscating generic drugs made by Indian pharmaceutical companies, a report said.

India had repeatedly allowed the perpetrators of terror attacks to get away, Indian Army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor said on Wednesday while stressing that the country could not "afford a repeat of 26/11". "The US has not allowed a second 9/11, Indonesia has not allowed a second Bali," Kapoor said, adding that India had allowed those behind the "2001 ...

Nariman Point is Mumbai's financial center and home to some of the most exclusive night spots in the country.

Abu Dhabi, Nov 3: Etihad Airways of the United Arab Emirates will operate four flights between Abu Dhabi and Hyderabad every week, WAM news agency reported Tuesday.

At least 12 passengers sustained minor injuries when 11 coaches of the Gandhidham-Bengaluru Express derailed near Dombivili on Wednesday, a railway official said.

MUMBAI: In an effort to break the logjam over the formation of the government in the state, Maharashtra Governor S.C. Jamir has summoned Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal to Raj Bhavan Tuesday, an official here said.

Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi on Tuesday 'regretted' not bringing the Commonwealth Games to Mumbai.

Mumbai, Nov 3 : Engineering and construction company Larsen and Toubro today said it has bagged an order worth Rupees 6,897 crore from Maharashtra State Power Generation Company for manufacturing turbine generator units.

Telecom service provider Reliance Communications is close to awarding a contract for implementation of mobile number portability integration across its network to eight global telecom companies.

Army Chief Deepak Kapoor on Tuesday warned that 26/11-type Mumbai terror attacks were a possibility and that India has to take all steps to counter such strikes.

By Rana Ajit, New Delhi, Nov 2 : The Supreme Court is to hear Tuesday a lawsuit challenging its administrative order regulating the entry of a person to the court's high security zone for the purpose of pleading his case personally.

New Delhi News.Net Monday 2nd November, 2009 Mumbai, Nov 2 : The crucial Congress-NCP talks over portfolio sharing in Maharashtra did not take place on Sunday, delaying further the government formation in the state.

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Will, a film-maker from London, and his girlfriend, Kelly Doyle, stopped for a night in the Taj Mahal hotel on their way home to the UK.

Yoko Sizzlers was the first sizzler-only restaurant in Mumbai, India. Today, after nearly 15 years in service its still the first name that pops up when one thinks of sizzlers.

Hollywood screenplay writer-director Paul Schrader says 'Xtrme City', his first Indian collaboration dealing with the Mumbai mafia and slums, is also about romance, families and obligations.

Rice is uprooted and arranged for replanting in a field on the outskirts of Mumbai, India in July 2008.

MUMBAI: The crucial Congress-NCP talks over portfolio sharing in Maharashtra did not take place today, delaying further the government formation in the state.

Mumbai, Nov 1 : The Mumbai Film Festival this year has a Danish flavour with five films being screened to give Indians a taste of Denmark.

'Any further attack on India will be strongly retaliated' Addressing a public function in Madurai [ Images ], Union Home Minister P Chidamabaram on Sunday issued a strict warning to Pakistan that any further attack on the Indian soil will be strongly retaliated.

Last November, more than 150 people were killed by terrorists in Mumbai. One target was a centre run by this young Jewish couple, who were murdered and perhaps tortured; miraculously, their toddler son escaped.

Bangalore/Udhampur: The spate of terror strikes and the resultant turmoil in Pakistan may spill over to India, top central government and army officials said yesterday.