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US okays extradition of Tahawwur Rana to India: What role did he play in 26/11?
Fp Explainers •A US court has approved the extradition of the 26/11 attack accused, Tahawwur Rana, to India. The Pakistani-origin Rana is a childhood friend of plotter David Headley and provided him cover as he identified potential targets in Mumbai to carry out the terror operation
How has India levelled up its National Security in 14 years since 26/11 Mumbai attacks
Vibhutisanchala •Ever since the attack, the government has taken a string of security measures to enhance the border security of the nation
Maharashtra: Locals rename Sultanpur as 'Rahul Nagar' after 26/11 martyr
•Rahul Shinde, a State Reserve Police Force constable attained martyrdom during the terror attacks 14 years ago
President Droupadi Murmu pays homage to victims of 26/11 Mumbai attacks
•On the 14th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the President said that the country shares the enduring pain of their loved ones and families
US Secretary of State Blinken speaks to EAM Jaishankar; discuss Ukraine war,counterterrorism,other global issues
•Jaishankar thanked Blinken for his strong and clear message on counter-terrorism as well as his call for holding those responsible for the 26/11 Mumbai attacks accountable
Gujarat man’s long wait for son’s gallantry award: The controversy behind the ‘couriered’ Shaurya Chakra
Fp Explainers •Munim Singh Bhadoriya on 5 September received a parcel which contained his son, Lance Naik Gopal Singh Bhadoriya's Shaurya Chakra. The soldier was conferred upon the country's third-highest gallantry award in 2018, but was delayed owing to a dispute between his wife and parents over service benefits
Manish Tewari criticises UPA's post-26/11 response, says Congress-led govt was 'insensitive, useless'
•Tewari, who was a Union minister in the UPA government, has criticised the erstwhile dispensation for not actioning "a kinetic response in the days following India's 9/11" in his book — '10 Flash Points; 20 Years — National Security Situations that Impacted India'.
Mumbai Diaries 26/11 review: Strictly middling thriller that squanders its potential
Aditya Mani Jha •Mumbai Diaries 26/11 is an arresting genre piece. But it sets up morally ambiguous and potentially rich storylines, only to squander them with lazy writing, and paper the gaps with action sequences.
'Some resorting to proxy war by supporting non-State actors': India takes dig at Pakistan during UN meet
•Ambassador K Nagaraj Naidu, addressing the meet, cited the 26/11 assault on Mumbai as an example of a State-sponsored terror attack
Pakistan arrests 2008 Mumbai attacks mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi on terror finance charges
•Lakhvi is alleged to be a leader of the Lashker-e-Taiba group that organised the Mumbai attacks in 2008 that killed 166 people. He was detained days after the Mumbai attacks but released in 2015 by Pakistani courts