New Delhi, Dec 2 : Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta today said the Coast Guards had intelligence inputs about the use of the sea route by terror outfits to attack India’s financial capital, Mumbai.
The fishing trawler in which terrorists came to Mumbai was intercepted by the Coast Guard, but was let off by them as all papers were in place, Admiral Mehta told reporters at his annual press conference ahead of Navy Day.
The England cricket team is likely to return to India on December 3 for the next rounds of Test series against India. Earlier, the UK team returned, following security threats in the wake of the terror attack in Mumbai. The team was playing fifth ODI in Cuttack on Wednesday when Mumbai came under terror attack, leading to the suspension of the forthcoming matches.
The security issue has become very important for the next matches in Indian fields. England captain Kevin Pietersen hoped that security adviser Reg Dickason would allow them to play ODI matches.
Mumbai, Dec. 2 : President Pratibha Devisingh Patil today met Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh here and discussed the recent terrorist attacks in the city.
Officials accompanying the President said that she has asked the chief minister to send reports at regular intervals to her on the progress being made in the investigations.
Washington, Dec. 2: Pakistan’s envoy to the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, has said that there is no point in either India or Pakistan, or for that matter the international community engaging in a blame game on what happened in Mumbai last week.
In a letter written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Haroon describes as ''regrettable'' the attempt being made internationally to "involve Pakistan through its government and people to bear the brunt of the outrage against the Mumbai incident".
Calling the ''American intervention in Iraq'' among ''the costliest mistakes made by mankind'', he writes that the international community is better served by the ''reality of peace''.
Mumbai, Dec. 2 : Israeli hostages killed by Islamic terrorists during the attacks on Mumbaiwere tortured by their captors before they were bound together and killed, according to officials in both countries.
Doctors have expressed horror at the condition of the bodies recovered from Nariman House, which housed the Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch retreat.
"I have seen so many dead bodies in my life, and was traumatised," The Telegraph quoted a mortician at Mumbai’s J. J. Hospital, as saying.
"It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood," he added.
Peshawar, Dec. 2 : The Pak-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, NWFP chapter will visit India to decrease tension between the people of India and Pakistan in the aftermath of Mumbai terrorist attacks.
Talking to Daily Times on Monday, the forum’s chairman Khwaja Waseem said that the Mumbai chapter of Pak-India forum has invited the NWFP chapter to India on December 7 for playing its role and decreasing tension between the two nuclear neighbours caused by Mumbai terrorist attacks which killed about 200 people and injured hundreds.
New Delhi, Dec 2 : Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta today said the Coast Guards had intelligence inputs about the use of the sea route by terror outfits to attack India’s financial capital, Mumbai.
The England cricket team is likely to return to India on December 3 for the next rounds of Test series against India. Earlier, the UK team returned, following security threats in the wake of the terror attack in Mumbai. The team was playing fifth ODI in Cuttack on Wednesday when Mumbai came under terror attack, leading to the suspension of the forthcoming matches.
Mumbai, Dec. 2 : President Pratibha Devisingh Patil today met Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh here and discussed the recent terrorist attacks in the city.
