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Terrorists who held to ransom the city of Mumbai for over two days and led siege of iconic Taj hotel planned to blow it up like the JW Marriot hotel in Islamabad, the hotel sources, quoting intelligence agencies told NDTV. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil has said that terrorists planned to kill 5,000 people in the city of Mumbai. He added that there was no evidence of involvement of locals in the terror attacks. "Terrorists planned to kill 5,000 people," said Patil. A captured terrorist has confessed to booking room in Taj to store explosives. Sources have also...

Mumbai: At least 15 people have been injured in gunfights between two groups in at least three places in Mumbai on Thursday night. Details are sketchy but it is believed that two gangs fired at each other at outside CST Railway Terminus, Hotel Oberoi and the popular Café Leopold restaurant in Mumbai. The first shooting took place near the CST police station

MUMBAI, India (Map, News) - A top Indian general says about 10 to 12 gunmen remain holed up inside a pair of luxury Mumbai hotels and a Jewish center.Maj. Gen. R.K. Huda told New Delhi Television that the rest of the gunmen appeared to have been killed or captured.Authorities say 110 people were killed and 300 injured when suspected Islamic militants attacked 10 sites in Mumbai.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

An interesting article by Alan Cowell and Mark McDonald in today's New York Times reveals an inconvenient truth about analysts who study terrorism: they often have wildly divergent views about the same events. Christine Fair, senior political scientist and a South Asia expert at the RAND Corporation, was careful to say that the identity of the terrorists could not yet be known. But she insisted the style of the attacks and the targets in Mumbai suggested the militants were likely to be Indian Muslims and not linked to Al Qaeda or Lashkar-e-Taiba, another violent South Asian terrorist group. There’s absolutely...

A series of bomb blasts and shootings are now rocking Mumbai. The attacks are centred on the city's international hotels as well as transport hubs, including the domestic and international airports.  In the last few minutes, a second bomb has exploded at the Taj Mahal, although this may have been a controlled explosion, and the army has entered both the Taj and the Oberoi. One MP is reorted dead at the Taj, with two more believed to be still inside.Hostages are being held at at least two hotels, with the terrorists said to be "looking for anyone with a British or American...