2611 Mumbai Terror Attacks

The over 400-page charge sheet, the fourth in the 15-year-old case till date, was submitted to a special court which is likely to take it up on Tuesday after completing the verification.

Driving patiently in the mad-hell traffic, I reached the Western Express Highway at Goregaon when my phone started ringing non-stop, around 9.30 p.m. Muttering irately, I stopped to answer, it was a professional colleague, almost screaming: "There's some shoot-out in Colaba area... Many police vehicles rushing there... some localities are cordoned off..." and abruptly cut off. Half-guessing it to be some kind of a mafia gang-war, I nevertheless made some strategic calls to confirm it was more than that.

After 14 years that shook India and dazed the world, the Gen Z -- accounting for over 45-crore ambitious youth, largely first-time voters -- feels 'safer and secure' and looks back with pride at how the country has managed to overcome and move on from that scary experience besides averting similar tragedies since then. On the other hand, an edutech consultant Pruthvi Parikh, then studying in Cambridge School, Kandivali remembers some of the details and later updated his hazy knowledge via social media.

The PM was speaking at the Constitution Day celebrations in the Supreme Court. Remembering the dark day in the history of India when the country was celebrating the momentous occasion of Constitution Day, the Prime Minister recalled that on November 26, 14-years-ago, India faced the biggest terrorist attack in its history by the enemies of humanity. He paid his tributes to the ones who lost their lives in the dastardly Mumbai terror attacks.

Since 2008, the victims of the terror attacks have not been able to recover from the shock completely, but the internal security of the country has seen several major changes. Taking lessons from the terror attacks, security arrangements have been made fool proof, making it safe from rerun of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

And a team of New York police officers was in Mumbai just three days after the the most horrific terrorist strike in India's history was over. They wanted to see and study first-hand how the attack was carried out in view of their own encounter with a terrorist attack seven years before in 2001. The two countries announced their intention to launch a Joint Counterterrorism Initiative just a year later in November 2009.

Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and others offered floral tributes at the 26/11 Police Memorial in south Mumbai. Similar solemn commemorations were organised at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, the Hotel Taj Mahal & Palace, Hotel Trident-Oberoi, the Nariman House, the Cama Hospital and other venues that were targetted.

Taking serious note, the Mumbai Police immediately got cracking, formed three teams of Crime Branch to investigate while other state and central agencies are also being involved in the operations, said city Commissioner of Police Vivek Phansalkar. The threats, warning of 'explosions' in the country's commercial capital, exceeding the effect of 26/11 (2008), were received in a WhatsApp chat at the Mumbai Traffic Police Control Room around 11 p.m. on Friday, sending the city's security apparatus into a state of high-alert early on Saturday morning.

The threats were in a WhatsApp message, ostensibly from a neighbourhood nation, though details of the sender or when the strikes will take place were not clear. The message also claims that the next strike would revive the memories of the 26/11 terror attacks in the city by heavily armed 10 Pakistani extremists.