India

Mumbai heroes who saved many lives

Mumbai's terror DubaiNew York, Dec 2 : With Mumbai under terror attacks, two common citizens Vishnu Datta Ram Zende and Nitin Minocha, risked their life and worked overnight to provide relief to victims, guide other people to safety.

Zende used the public-address system at Mumbai’s largest railway station, Victoria Terminus, to direct busy hordes of travelers to their trains, The New York Times reported.

US warned India of terror attack as far back as September

National Conference to decide its stand on Indo-US nuclear deal todayWashington, Dec. 2 : U. S. and Indian intelligence agencies received information as early as September that Pakistan-based terrorists were plotting attacks against Mumbai targets, an official said on Tuesday.

U. S. intelligence agencies reportedly warned their Indian counterparts in October of a potential attack "from the sea against hotels and business centers in Mumbai," a U. S. official told ABC News.

Official says no Malaysian link in Mumbai terror attack

Malaysia frees opposition politician held under security lawKuala Lumpur, Dec. 2 : An initial probe into the Mumbai attacks has not uncovered any links to Malaysia, said consul-general in Mumbai, Wan Zaidi Wan Abdullah.

He said the Indian authorities had denied newspaper reports that the terrorists had used Malaysian travel documents and credit cards.

This was revealed to the consul-general by senior police investigators but there is still no official statement from the Indian government on this so-called link.

India, Pakistan shares a common enemy: Rice

Condoleezza RiceWashington, Dec. 2 : U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said both India and Pakistan share a common enemy, “because extremists in any form are obviously a threat to the Pakistanis as well as to the Indians”.

Speaking to journalists while flying to London, from where she will depart for New Delhi on Wednesday, Rice said the US has maintained very close contact with Britain and co-operated very closely on issues concerning Pakistan and India.

India awaiting response on list of wanted terrorists from Pakistan

‘Coast Guards had intelligence about use of sea to attack Mumbai’

 ‘Coast Guards had intelligence about use of sea to attack Mumbai’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.

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