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Home Minister P Chidambaram’s second day in the ministry saw bureaucrats making desperate calls to the headquarters of the security forces asking them to re-send the list of basic wherewithal, which they had been asking for years to fight the terrorists effectively and for surveillance of the border.
Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafur has denied that there was any specific input about the recent terror attacks on Mumbai, which killed over 180 people and injured more than 300. Instead, he said, there was a general warning about potential terror threat on the five-star hotels in the city after the attacks on Marriot Hotel in Islamabad.
Mumbai's Police Chief Said Tuesday That He Never Received A Warning Of An Impending Seaborne Attack On His City.
Mumbai commissioner of police Hasan Gafoor sought to put to rest speculation that more than 10 terrorists were involved in the attack on Mumbai.
These are hard times for India’s biggest auto firm,Tata Motors. As if the relocation of the plant to make the small car Nano from West Bengal to Gujarat wasn’t enough, both commercial vehicles and the car businesses are under pressure.
The inchoate anger and frustration of Mumbai's articulate classes and their open declaration of a loss of faith in India's political leaders may or may not lead to anything of substance; indeed, it may all dissipate in a few days or weeks, like a wave in the sand.
Supreme Court rules that the plea of 'bona fide mistake' is no valid ground for evading state levies. The revenue lost in sales tax evasion is astronomical and occasionally some state government uncovers scams of great proportions as in the case of Maharashtra last month or Gujarat some time ago.
Attributing the Mumbai terror attack to a "systemic failure" and lacunae in the country's coastal security, chief of the Indian Navy Admiral Sureesh Mehta has said that they had no prior "actionable" intelligence inputs.
While the UPA government scrambles to ensure that the Navy and the Coast Guard get their act together on protecting the country's porous coastline exposed yet again by the Mumbai terror attacks, the customs department's sea-patrolling abilities have just got a significant boost.
Retail companies are negotiating a 50-60% reduction in rentals in key areas in metros across the country. Industry experts said that rental negotiations are already underway at prime retail locations in Mumbai, including Phoenix Mills and Mega Mall.
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