MUMBAI, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- India airports across the
country were on high alert after a terror e-mail and the coast of west state
Gujarat was also on tight security Thursday morning, reported local news channel
Times Now.
India Bureau of Civil Aviation Thursday morning
issued a hijack warning for Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai airports.
Previously the Bureau of Civil Aviation have received
an e-mail, which said that on Dec. 6, terror groups might strike at these
airports to hijack a plane.
All hand baggage, due to this warning, will be
physically checked by security forces even after they have been put through the
X-ray.
All cars approaching the airports will also be
checked and the passengers need to report three hours in advance.
The police are trying to find out who is behind the
e-mail, which was first sent to a news organization in Gujarat last week.
The coastal districts of Gujarat are also on high
alert now, after the state home ministry received specific information of
threats to certain places on the Gujarat coast, sources said.
Sources in the Jujarat state home ministry said that
about a dozen sleeper cells are likely to be activated.
Many cities along Gujarat coast have been put on high
alert.
A shopkeeper cleans the shop near
Nariman house where terrorist attack took place in Mumbai, India, Nov. 30,
2008. After the final siege at the Taj Mahal hotel, lives of people live
in Mumbai began to return to normal. But the main areas, which were
attacked by the terrorists, are still blocked by the police.(Xinhua/Liu
Sui Wai) Photo
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NEW DELHI, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The terrorist attacks in
India's financial capital Mumbai starting Wednesday night have shocked the world
with their brazenness and brutality. The attacks have added to a mounting sense
of insecurity in the city and people are still struggling to come to terms with
the fallout from the three-day rampage. Full story
MUMBAI, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- With the United States and
Australia stepping up travel alerts for the second time in three days,
terrorists appear to have succeeded in hitting India's tourism sector, The Times
of India reported on Monday.
According to the travel industry, travel alerts have
an immediate and negative impact on tourism and business travel in the
country. Full story
MUMBAI, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- India Home Minister Shivraj Patil
delivered a resignation letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi
Sunday morning, Congress spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan said.
Patil, facing widespread criticism for the terror attacks
in Mumbai, took "moral responsibility" for the attacks and submitted his
resignation to Prime Minister Singh, said the Congress spokesperson. Full story
MUMBAI, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Mumbai police probing the
terror attacks confirmed on Sunday that only 10 terrorists entered the city just
an hour before the attacks starting on Nov. 26, according to local NDTV.
Local media initially reported that there were 40
terrorists including 18 foreign nationals. Full story
MUMBAI, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- India's longest terror
nightmare that lasted for almost 59 hours ended Saturday as commandos from the
National Security Guard (NSG), the Indian Army and the Indian Navy eliminated
three militants who had taken over the iconic Taj Mahal hotel.
"Finally, we have been able to win the battle and do the
job (assigned to us)," NSG head J.K. Dutt told reporters.Full story
NEW DELHI, Nov. 29
(Xinhua) -- At least 13 foreigners were killed and 22 injured in the Mumbai
terror attacks since it happened Wednesday night, officials said Saturday.
The earlier data released by India's Home Ministry on
Friday said that eight foreign nationals were dead. The deceased included three
German nationals, two Americans and one each from Japan, Canada and Australia.
Full story
Indian soldiers and policemen enter the
Nariman House to rescue the hostages in Mumbai's Jewish centre, Mumbai,
Inida on Nov. 28, 2008. (Xinhua Photo) Photo
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MUMBAI, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The terror war on Mumbai is on the verge of ending
Friday night with security forces securing the 5-star Oberoi hotel and a Jewish
Centre -- Nariman House, but gunmen continued to hold out inside the Taj hotel
at the end of pitched combat that left 30 hostages dead.
At the Nariman House, a residential complex housing a
prayer hall, commandos were air dropped from helicopters in a first such
operation ever. Two militants were killed but not before five of the hostages
were eliminated by them.
Mumbai, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- A hostage crisis continued in
Mumbai, India, with over 10 hostages still in Taj Hotel and another 100 people
being believed to be trapped in Oberoi Hotel, police said Friday.
It's over 36 hours since Mumbai was taken over by
terrorist attack. And there's still no end to the nightmare.
