Mumbadevi Temple

Six persons including two children were today killed while three others sustained serious injuries when the taxi they were travelling in hit a road divider on the eastern freeway here, police said.

Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, who is behind bars in the July 13, 2011 blasts case, had planned to blow up a police van in the crowded Dadar area.

With Navratri festivities just two days away, preparations are on in full swing at the two most popular temples in the city -- Mahalaxmi temple and Mumbadevi temple. Along with the customary ecclesiastical arrangements, the authorities are going the extra mile this year to make safeguard their temples and devotees from possible terror strikes.

Mohammed Hanif Sayyed, sentenced to death for carrying out the 2003 twin blasts in Mumbai at the instance of Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), was an auto rickshaw driver. Hanif (46) left for Saudi Arabia in 1992 as a catering assistant on a salary of 700 Riyal. He worked there till 1994 and returned to Mumbai. Thereafter, he was plying a rented auto ricksha...

Six persons including two children were today killed while three others sustained serious injuries when the taxi they were travelling in hit a road divider on the eastern freeway here, police said.

Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, who is behind bars in the July 13, 2011 blasts case, had planned to blow up a police van in the crowded Dadar area.

With Navratri festivities just two days away, preparations are on in full swing at the two most popular temples in the city -- Mahalaxmi temple and Mumbadevi temple. Along with the customary ecclesiastical arrangements, the authorities are going the extra mile this year to make safeguard their temples and devotees from possible terror strikes.

Mohammed Hanif Sayyed, sentenced to death for carrying out the 2003 twin blasts in Mumbai at the instance of Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), was an auto rickshaw driver. Hanif (46) left for Saudi Arabia in 1992 as a catering assistant on a salary of 700 Riyal. He worked there till 1994 and returned to Mumbai. Thereafter, he was plying a rented auto ricksha...