Nanny may get Israeli honour
Jerusalem, Dec. 2: The Indian nanny who rescued Jewish toddler Moshe Holtzberg during the Mumbai attacks, may be conferred a top Israeli honour usually reserved for saviours of Jews from Holocaust.
Moshe, the orphaned son of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, reached here in a special Israel Air Force aircraft on Monday night which also brought the governess, Sandra Samuel. The Jewish couple were killed during the terror siege of Nariman House where they ran a cultural and outreach centre for the ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
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Pune on alert after threat
Pune, Dec. 2: Security measures in the city have been strengthened further following an anonymous fax message sent to the police, claiming that bombs have been planted at 40 places in the city, the police said on Tuesday.
The police issued a high alert on Monday night after receiving the fax and combed all parts of the city but failed to recover any explosives, the police said.
The fax, written in English, was traced to a shop in the busy Ganesh Peth area of the city, they said.
The police stepped up vigil at all sensitive places and installations and also sent SMSes to citizens appealing them to ignore rumours. —PTI
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R.R. Patil sent copter by NCP
Mumbai, Dec. 2: Within minutes of resigning as Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister in wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, R.R. Patil had vacated his official bungalow in Malabar Hill and driven to the native village in a private car. On Tuesday, his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) sent a helicopter to fetch him for the meeting here on Tuesday afternoon to choose his successor in the hot seat.
"Mr Patil had made up his mind to skip the meeting. It was a phone call by party President Sharad Pawar that made him change his mind and agree to attend the meeting," a source said.
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‘Don’t bury attackers here’
Mumbai, Dec. 2: Muslim clerics in Mumbai said on Tuesday that the bodies of nine militants who carried out last week’s attacks in the city should not be buried in India.
A group of Muslim scholars representing about 50 religious organisations met to discuss how the community should respond to the attacks that killed 188 people and injured more than 300. Only one of the 10 gunmen involved in the shootings and grenade atta-cks has been captured alive.
"These people should be buried where they came from," said president of the city’s Jamia Qadriya Ash-rafiya madrasa. —PTI