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Coherent intelligence from single agency key against terror: Pillai

Mumbai, Nov 26 (IANS) ‘Coherent intelligence’ by a single agency which processes information from varied agencies and sources is the key to ensuring sound security in India and to prevent recurrence of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said Thursday.

Addressing an international conference on ‘Building Secure Cities for Economic Prosperity & Growth,’ Pillai [...]

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Kamte’s widow takes on Mumbai Police on 26/11 attacks

Mumbai, Nov. 25 (IANS) The widow of additional police commissioner Ashok Kamte, one of the slain heroes of 26/11 terror attacks, has alleged that Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Rakesh Maria had attempted to suppress crucial details of the sequence of events that led to her husband’s death.

Vinita Kamte has also accused Maria of feigning ignorance [...]

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Terror-hit hotels limp back to normal life (One Year after 26/11)

Mumbai, Nov 25 (IANS) ‘In memory and faith that peace can come on Earth as it is in Heaven.’ Thus reads a scrawling handwriting in a memorial book placed at the historic Hotel Taj Mahal Palace & Tower. The book lies next to a sacred ‘Tree of Life’ setting, which commemorates those who laid down [...]

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After bad publicity, government removes cops from Gateway of India

Mumbai, Nov 19 (IANS) Embarrassed after the criticism from various quarters, the Maharashtra government Thursday evening shifted a platoon of police – entrusted with guarding the Hotel Taj Mahal Palace & Tower – from the Gateway of India where they were living since nearly two months.

The platoon, which comprised 30 State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) [...]

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Canadian PM visits 26/11 target Chabad House

Mumbai, Nov 16 (IANS) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Monday visited the Chabad House, a Jewish community centre at Colaba that was one of the targets of the 26/11 terror attacks here last year.

Harper, who arrived here on the first lap of his three-day trip to India late Sunday, went to the Chabad House and [...]

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Tharoor’s taunt on austerity drive angers Congress

New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) The Congress Wednesday said Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor’s remarks that he was prepared to travel in the ‘cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows’ were not acceptable and the party high command may also decide if any disciplinary action is to be taken [...]

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Tharoor’s taunt on austerity angers Congress

New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) The Congress Wednesday said Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor’s remarks that he would travel in ‘cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows’ were not acceptable and the party high command may also decide if any disciplinary action is to be taken against him.

‘The party [...]

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