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AMagazine MUMBAI: Two luxury hotels in Mumbai that were stormed by militants re-opened amid tight security on Sunday, less than a month after devastating attacks that rocked India's financial and entertainment hub.The Trident and Taj Mahal hotels received their first guests since the carnage, with staff praised for their dedication and resilience as others called for defiance in the face of extremism.Ratan Tata, the head of the Tata Group conglomerate that owns the Taj, dedicating the relaunch to all those who lost their lives, said the swift reopening of the hotel's modern Tower wing was the start of a "new era.""I believe that the opening of this hotel will send a message that we can come alive again in a record period of time and play a role and continue to be part of this great city," he told reporters.The 105-year-old Palace wing of the Taj remains closed but Tata said its reopening "would send an even stronger message, not just for the Taj but for...

AMagazine NEW DELHI: Britain, Canada and Australia have advised their citizens visiting India not to travel to Mumbai. The US have not yet updated any travel advisory. This follows reports that terrorists were specifically looking for British and US passport holders at the two five-star hotels which they attacked late Wednesday night in Mumbai. The British Foreign Office advised against “all non-essential travel to Mumbai until further notice”. “If you are currently in Mumbai we advise you to stay indoors and monitor the media,” it added, noting that they should contact their travel agent for information as some flights have been cancelled. The Foreign Office also gave Mumbai and Britain phones numbers for British citizens or their relatives to contact for information. “We advise all British nationals in the city to stay indoors until local authorities advise that it is safe to go outside,” the notice added. The Australian foreign ministry's travel advice also had a similar tenor, ...

AMagazine MUMBAI: The hostage drama in Mumbai’s landmark Hotel Taj has ended as 40 bodies have been recovered during the rescue operation. According to Maharashtra Director General of Police (DGP) A N Roy, all the hostages inside Taj have been rescued. However, hostage-like situation at Trident hotel continues. Meanwhile, two explosions were heard from the hotel. Even at the Nariman House, many people are feared to be taken as hostages. Nine foreigners are among the 100 killed in the attack that also left over 300 people injured.

AMagazine MUMBAI: More than 100 people have been killed, including nine foreigners and at least 287 injured in a series of well-coordinated terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Terrorists, who apparently came in by boats, struck at 10 places in south Mumbai including five-star hotels, hospitals and train stations. There is hostage situation in at least two locations -- the Taj and the Trident hotels. In the Taj Colaba, at least 100 people are believed to be trapped probably held hostage by terrorists. Some of these are Israeli and Canadian nationals. NSG and Military Commandos entered the Taj and Trident hotels. Five terrorists have been killed. Several staff members at the hotels have also been killed, including two at Trident. Gunshots continue to be heard. NSG Commandos have launched operations in the Nariman House building in Colaba. This was the second place that was attacked in Mumbai. Two men came on a scooter and hurled a grenade at nearby petrol pump. Though the grenade missed the pet...

AMagazine NEW DEHLI: India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has vowed to take "whatever measures are necessary" to track down those responsible for the Mumbai attacks. In his address to nation, Singh called on all Indians to remain united following the co-ordinated attacks that have left 101 dead and 300 injured. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also said that the attacks in Mumbai which killed more than 100 people were well-planned and probably had "external linkages". "The well-planned and well-orchestrated attacks, probably with external linkages, were intended to create a sense of terror by choosing high-profile targets," Singh said in an address to the nation. At least seven sites in the city were targeted by gunmen late on Wednesday. Some hostages have been freed but blasts continue to be heard at three sites, including two luxury hotels. Police chief AN Roy said hostages had been rescued from the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, but gunmen were still ...

AMagazine ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday telephoned Congress leader Sonia Gandhi to condemn the terrorist attacks in Bombay that killed scores and injured hundreds. The President termed the killing of the innocent a detestable act and condemned the attacks in strongest possible terms. The President said militancy and extremism in all its forms and manifestations had to be eliminated and all countries need to cooperate with each other in this regard. The President asked Sonia Gandhi to convey his grief and sorrow to the people of India and to the families of those who lost their loved ones.

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AMagazine MUMBAI: The security forces in Indian city Mumbai declared to have taken in siege the terrorists and said it is the government which would make the final decision regarding the conclusive action. However, the media said that the officials started the negotiations with the terrorists. According to Indian media, the security forces sources claimed to have completed 50 percent operation against terrorists at Taj Hotel and that there is no aggravated situation regarding hostages. They said that the security forces laid siege around the terrorists at Oberoi hotel and now it is up to the government to opt for negotiations or operation. Police chief said that there is no hostage held at Taj hotel and now the police personnel have started to clear the hotel. Meantime, Home Minister SR Patel told an Indian television that the government has taken all the necessary information and all these details would be released after due verification. Patel said at least five terrorists have been ...

AMagazine NEW DELHI: India's most audacious terror attack began when a group of men carrying a huge quantity of arms and ammunition got off at the Gateway of India jetty, Mumbai's most identifiable landmark, and literally crossed the road to begin the night of mayhem. Intelligence sources said the terrorists landed at the Gateway of India, across the road from the 565-room Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel, one of the seven places in the city they laid siege to, Wednesday night. After having alighted at the jetty, the assailants went about their task commandeering vehicles to attack the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station, the Leopold cafe and enter the Taj and the Oberoi Trident hotels where they continue to hold tourists as hostages. At any given point, the jetty at the Gateway of India has 2,000 boats. Though the popular tourist spot is also manned, they still managed to get through. "We know they arrived at the jetty and then began targeting popular sites in south Mumba...

AMagazine MUMBAI: A militant holed up inside Mumbai's Oberoi Hotel told a news channel on Thursday that seven attackers were holding hostages inside the luxury establishment. "There are seven of us inside hotel Oberoi," the man identified as Sahadullah told the channel. "We want all Mujahideens held in India released and only after that we will release the people." "Release all the Mujahideens, and Muslims living in India should not be troubled," he said. Fresh firing erupted early on Thursday in Taj hotel as commandoes moved in to flush out terrorists holding some foreigners hostage after a night of terror targeting ten places in Mumbai. Smoke was seen billowing from the new building of the Taj Hotel -- which stands next to the old building where terrorists are holed up. While NSG operation was on in the old building, fire brigade personnel were trying to douse fire in the new wing. Army commandoes moved into the luxury Oberoi and the Taj Mahal hotels...

AMagazine NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s election rally in the capital Thursday was cancelled following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, a local news agency said. He has also called an emergency Cabinet meeting. Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil is back in Delhi from Mumbai for the meeting. More than 101 people have been killed and 250 injured in a series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai at 10 places including hotels, hospitals and train stations since Wednesday evening. Manmohan Singh was to address an election rally in south Delhi Thursday afternoon. The ruling Congress party had decided to end its campaign for Saturday’s assembly election in Delhi with the prime minister’s rally. A hostage crisis continued Thursday with tourists and other guests being held by terrorists in two five-star hotels.

AMagazine MUMBAI: Teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, a crowded train station and a Jewish group's headquarters in India's financial capital, killing at least 101 people, taking Westerners hostage and leaving parts of the city under siege Thursday, police said. A group of suspected Muslim militants claimed responsibility. Police and gunmen were exchanging occasional gunfire at two luxury hotels and dozens of people were believed held hostage or trapped in besieged buildings. Pradeep Indulkar, a senior official at the Maharashtra state Home Ministry said 101 people were killed and 287 injured. Officials said at least eight militants had also been killed since the overnight attacks that targeted at least 10 separate sites began around 9:30 p.m. Gunmen also seized the Mumbai headquarters of the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch, the New York-based group said. Indian commandos surrounded the building in the morning, and media reports sai...

AMagazine WASHINGTON/LONDON: President-elect Barack Obama and UN chief Ban ki-moon led the global community condemnation of the terror attacks in Mumbai and called on the nations of the world to work together to "root out and destroy terrorist networks". At least 100 people, including Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, were killed when terrorists struck with impunity in Mumbai in coordinated multiple blasts and gunfire in a dozen areas across the city. "These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave and urgent threat of terrorism," Obama's Chief National security Spokesperson Brooke Anderson said in a statement. "The United States must continue to strengthen our partnerships with India and nations around the world to root out and destroy terrorist networks," he said. "We stand with the people of India, whose democracy will prove far more resilient than the hateful ideology that led to these attacks," Anderson ad...

AMagazine MUMBAI: Media reports say gunmen seized the Mumbai headquarters of the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch overnight, and that shots have now been heard coming from the building. Representatives of the New York-based group referred questions to their Web site, which said the Israeli consulate had earlier been in touch with the rabbi who lived in the house, "but the line was cut in middle of the conversation. No further contact has since been established." Teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital, killing at least 101 people, taking Westerners hostage and leaving parts of the city under siege Thursday. A group of suspected Muslim militants claimed responsibility. The attackers specifically targeted Britons and Americans at the hotels and restaurant, witnesses said. Officials said at least 120 people were wounded. Alex Chamberlain, a ...

AMagazine MUMBAI: It is one of the plushest hotels in India, if not the world, but for one night it became a terrifying battleground, complete with gun battles, explosions and a raging fire. "That was, without doubt, the worst experience of my entire life," said one woman guest after she was rescued by firemen from Mumbai's famed Taj Hotel, which was caught in the middle of a multi-pronged militant attack across India's financial capital. "It was a very, very painful six hours," said the woman, who had lain on the floor of a hotel room with 25 other petrified guests, while hostage-taking gunmen roamed the hotel and fought off special units of naval commandos. "We really didn't know what was going on," she told reporters. "But we could hear the army coming through the hotel. We heard the firing and the blasts." Military units stormed the hotel in the early hours of Thursday morning to confront a handful of gunmen armed with assault rif...

AMagazine MUMBAI: Australian actress Brooke Satchwell, who starred in the successful Neighbours television drama, said she narrowly escaped the gunmen behind the Mumbai attacks by hiding in a hotel bathroom cupboard. Satchwell, 28, was staying with friends at the Taj Mahal Hotel, where the attackers are still holding hostages. She said she was heading back inside the building after smoking a cigarette when she heard gunshots. "There was people getting shot in the corridor. There was someone dead outside the bathroom," the shaken actress told Australian television on Thursday. Satchwell said she, along with other guests, hid in a hotel bathroom. Satchwell locked herself inside a small cupboard, while other guests hid in cubicles until being escorted out by staff. "Next thing I knew I was running down the stairs and there were a couple of dead bodies across the stairs. It was chaos," she said while talking to Australian media. Satchwell is best known for playing Anne ...

CNews MUMBAI: At least 100 people were killed in attacks apparently aimed at tourists in India's financial capital Mumbai, and television channels said Westerners were being held hostage on Thursday at two five-star hotels. Troops began moving into one of the hotels, the Oberoi, local television said. Explosions were heard there and at the Taj Mahal hotel, where tourists were also said to have been taken hostage, Indian television reported. Police said at least 250 people were wounded in the series of Mumbai attacks which, apart from the hotels, targeted hospitals and railway stations as well as the Cafe Leopold, perhaps the most famous restaurant and hang-out for tourists in the city. An organisation calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed it was behind attacks, television channels said. The previously little known group sent an email to news organisations claiming responsibility. "I guess they were after foreigners, because they were asking for British or American passp...

Amagazine MUMBAI: A series of terrorist strikes in Mumbai on Wednesday night which left more than 100 dead and 900 injured made ICL management to postpone ICL Champion League matches,whereas according to British television Middlesex also postpones its visit to India. Recent attack shake the fate of the Champions Twenty20 League, scheduled to begin in the city next week, and also cast a serious doubt over the second Test between India and England next month. The strikes, including blasts and shooting incidents, were spread out across the city but the majority of them were in south Mumbai, the main tourist hub. The Taj Mahal hotel, a city landmark and the scene of one such attack, is to host the two Test teams and was where the England side stayed during their warm-up period in Mumbai. It is also where Middlesex are believed to be set to stay. The Brabourne Stadium, venue of the second Test and scheduled to host three Champions League games, is in the middle of the area where most attack...

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