Tel Aviv - The bodies of six Jews killed in Mumbai's terrorist attacks were returned to Israel Tuesday for burial.
An Israel Air Force plane carrying the bodies, as well as a surviving toddler, landed at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv late Monday.
A short ceremony including a Jewish prayer for the dead was held at the airport, before the bodies were transported to Israel's Abu Kabir pathological centre for final identification.
Four of the coffins were wrapped in Israeli flags and two in Jewish prayer shawls, as four of the victims had Israeli citizenship while the remaining two did not. They include a Mexican Jew whose family lives in Israel and who had planned to immigrate to the country as well.
Mumbai, Dec. 2 : President Pratibha Devisingh Patil met a Shiv Sena delegation here on Tuesday morning.
The delegation, which was led by former Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi and party president Uddhav Thackeray, spent 15 minutes with the President, and demanded imposition of President’s Rule in the state of Maharashtra.
They told Patil that the state of law and order in Maharashtra was abysmal, and this had been proved by last week’s attacks by terrorists.
They said that the people of Maharashtra had lost confidence in the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party coalition government headed by Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.
Islamabad, Dec 2 : The deadly Mumbai terror attacks that killed nearly 195 people were aimed to push nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to the brink of war at a time when Islamabad was talking peace, analysts have said.
They further said that attacks happened at a time when US and Pakistani forces were punishing al-Qaeda and its allies.
“It happened at a time when a new civilian government in Pakistan was not just reaching out to India, it was undertaking some very meaningful steps,” said Samina Ahmed, South Asia project director for the International Crisis Group (ICG).
New Delhi, Dec 2: Re-polling at nine polling booths in three constituencies of Delhi Assembly began this morning.
The polling will be held till 5:00 p. m. in six booths in Malviya Nagar, two booths in Burari and in one booth in Matiala Assembly seats.
In Malviya Nagar, repolling is being held at booth numbers 59, 60, 62, 126, 127 while in Burari, repolling is taking place at booth numbers 14 and 72. Repolling is also being conducting on booth number numbers 168 in Matiala constituency.
Mumbai, Dec. 2: An Australian helicopter pilot has revealed how he saved the lives of more than 30 people at the popular Leopold’s Café in Mumbai.
"Aw, it probably all sounds more dramatic than it really was," Steve Smith told The Australian.
"I did what any Aussie would do in the circumstances. It would have been nice if there''d been another Aussie around and we could have done more," he added.
The 43-year-old resident of Port Macquarie in New South Wales, said that he was with his Japanese model girlfriend Yumi having a drink at the Leopold''s Cafe last Wednesday night when the armed terrorists struck.
Islamabad, Dec 2 : The deadly Mumbai terror attacks that killed nearly 195 people were aimed to push nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to the brink of war at a time when Islamabad was talking peace, analysts have said.
New Delhi, Dec 2: Re-polling at nine polling booths in three constituencies of Delhi Assembly began this morning.
