nariman house

Memories of the tragedy at nariman house still haunt Isaac Baagwan (inset), the first police officer to reach the spot on 26/11. He regrets his men did not have advanced weapons which would have made their task easier.

Rivka Holtzberg, the wife of the rabbi killed by terrorists at nariman house was six months pregnant, her father said at her funeral in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Even as speculation is rife that terrorists had targeted nariman house for being an Israeli intelligence front, govt records show the assessee's name as Dadibai Nusserwanji Khambatta and Gulshan Khambatta.

nariman house, also known as Chabad House, which was attacked by Pakistani terrorists on 26/11, has come into the possession of the court receiver owing to a bitter property dispute between the grandparents of Baby Moshe and the Chabad Lubavitch movement headquartered in New York.

Qazi Zakir Hussain, the 33-year-old cook who used to prepare kosher food for Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, deposed in court on Thursday.

Pakistan-based conspirators of 26/11 terror attacks had tried to boost the morale of one of the attackers who seemed to have developed fatigue and stress while fighting armed forces for two days at nariman house.

Baby Moshe's room has been left untouched with his toys and building blocks left in a disarray on the bed, waiting to be put away.

Workers go about their job furiously on the ground floor of nariman house. They are refurbishing brick-by-brick the five-storey building which only a year ago was witness to one of the most brutal terror attacks in the country, trying to restore it to a semblance of its pre-26/11 look.

Showing resolve, Israelis at the nariman house have said they won't leave the city and will restore the building, damaged by terrorists in the last month's strikes, on their own.

Colaba's terror-struck nariman house, which bore the brunt of a furious battle as security forces freed the premises from terrorists during the 26/11 attacks, could be restored to stand tall for another 80 to 100 years.

Dov Goldberg has taken charge of nariman house replacing Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, who was killed along with his wife in the last month's terror attack.

The terrorists knew who they were targeting. nariman house in Colaba is the Mumbai headquarters of the ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Hasidic Jews.

Two groups of the Jewish community were at loggerheads in the city civil court on Thursday over conducting a memorial service at nariman house, on the eve of the second year anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks.

Three-year-old Moshe is the sole Jew survivor of the tragedy-his parents, Rabbi Rivka and Gavriel Holtzberg, were shot dead by the terrorists.

Visible layers of security and discreet cameras watched over a milling crowd that had gathered to mark a milestone moment in Colaba on Tuesday. nariman house, the seat of the Israeli Chabad order in the city, reopened six years after the terrorist attacks of 26/11

The encounter at nariman house is finally over according to TV reports. Bodies of five hostages and two terrorists have been found.

The terrorists knew who they were targeting. nariman house in Colaba is the Mumbai headquarters of the ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Hasidic Jews.

Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley, posing as a Jew, had visited nariman house in the first half of last year.

A day after terrorists were flushed out of nariman house, the hollow concrete structure wore an eerie look, with broken window panes and holes in the ceiling of each floor.

There were three explosions at night, perhaps caused by grenade blasts. Some people are still believed to be holed-up in nariman house.

It’s always been a place of hospitality,” said preschool teacher Menuhah Peters as she took a bite of the sufganiyah. “But after the attacks six years ago, it’s also become a place where we come to pay our respects and remember that light always dispels darkness. What better time than Hanukkah for that?”

Lone surviving Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab today told a special court hearing 26/11 terror case that he was not aware of the 2008 dastardly attacks at Hotel Taj, Hotel Oberoi, nariman house and Leopold Cafe here.

Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg, father of Rabbi Gavriel who was killed during the November 26 terror attack intends to rebuild the nariman house, a Jewish settlement, that was badly damaged during the attacks.

Around 40 friends of Rabbi Gabi Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, from as far afield as New York, Israel and Thailand, and Jews from the eight synagogues around the city gathered together at nariman house to remember them.

Two witnesses who had seen the devastation wreaked by terrorists at nariman house in Colaba deposed before the special court.

A witness who had entered nariman house during the 26/11 terror strike and came face to face with the two terrorists deposed in court on Wednesday.

Various security establishments are trading charges about not sharing information with each other about the imminent terror attacks as there was absolutely no inkling of an attack on nariman house where Jews lived.

NSG has completely secured the Trident Oberoi hotel and the nariman house. At the Taj hotel, however, gunbattle between terrorists and troops is still on.