A federal US court in Los Angeles has scheduled on its calendar the in-person extradition hearing of Tahawwur Rana, the Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman who is sought for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack in India.
Former NSG director general J K Dutt, who headed the commando force during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, died on Wednesday due to complications arising out of COVID-19, officials said here. He was 72.
A US court has denied the bail plea of Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana, a key accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and declared a fugitive by India, asserting that he has not negated the "risk of flight".
Bollywood actor Ashish Chowdhry, who lost his sister Monica and brother-in-law Ajit Chhabria during 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, shared an emotional post on his Instagram handle remembering them. See the post here:
Amazon Prime Video revealed the first look of filmmaker Nikkhil Advani's medical drama "Mumbai Diaries 26/11", which aims to honour frontline heroes who saved many lives during the terror attacks.
To commemorate the sacrifice of the security personnel and common people in the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks, Bollywood stars took to their social media and recalled the dreadful day. Tributes are pouring since morning as the world on Thursday is remembering all those who lost their lives in the siege on India's commercial capital.
November 26 marks the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. "Through the Rewards for Justice programme, we seek to ensure that all those responsible for this heinous attack face justice,” US State Department deputy spokesman Cale Brown said on Wednesday.
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray paid their respects at the newly-built memorial at the police headquarters in south Mumbai.
Israelis, and Indian students and caregivers paid respects to the victims in Jerusalem, Rehovot and Tel Aviv on Wednesday and ceremonies are planned in Beersheva and Eilat on Thursday.
Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Mohammad Saeed will most certainly be released after the verdict of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as reported by news agency ANI.
Mumbai terror attack mastermind and chief of the banned JuD Hafiz Saeed could not be indicted by Lahore's anti-terrorism court for terror financing charges as authorities strangely failed to produce one of the co-accused at the high profile hearing on Saturday.
Bollywood celebrities took to Twitter to pay tribute on the eleventh anniversary of the dark day of history 26/11 when the cowardly Mumbai terror attack shook the world.
"Eleven years ago, a cowardly act of terrorism took the lives of 166 people, including six US citizens," State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said in a tweet on the 11th anniversary of the attack.
Ties between India and Pakistan have remained tense since the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and nosedived after the Uri and Pulwama terror attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists in September 2016 and February 2019 respectively, in which many soldiers had lost their lives.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the previous Congress government of failing to act after terror attacks in Mumbai.
Pakistan authorities on Wednesday booked Hafiz Saeed, chief of Jamaa-ud-Dawa and others in terror funding cases, amid growing international pressure to act against militant groups. Hafiz Saeed is a mastermind of deadly 26/11 Mumbai terror attack in 2008.
Her statement comes two days after Sam Pitroda, chief of Indian Overseas Congress, asked the government to come out with "more facts" on the Balakot air strikes.
Rana, 58, a resident of Chicago, was arrested in 2009 on the charges of plotting the 26/11 terror attack. In 2013, Rana was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release by US District Judge Harry Leinenweber.
In the barbaric attack unleashed on November 26, 2008 by 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) suicide attackers from from Pakistan, 166 people, six of whom were US nationals, were killed.
Baby Moshe lost his parents-father Rabbi Gavriel and mother Rivka, who was five months pregnant at the time ten years back when LeT terrorists stormed into Nariman House, Mumbai's Chabad Lubavitch Jewish centre.
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