Audacious attacks. Flames lick Taj Mahal hotel as commandos battle militants.
Islamic militants attack
India financial capital 101 killed; Yanks, Brits
targeted
MUMBAI — Suspected Islamist gunmen launched
waves of attacks in the heart of India’s financial capital late
Wednesday, killing at least 101 people and taking many
foreigners hostage in two of the city’s plushest hotels.
On Thursday, Indian commandos freed hostages
from Mumbai’s Taj Mahal hotel but battled on with Islamist
militants who launched the audacious attack across India’s
financial capital.
The gunmen arrived by boats in Mumbai on
Wednesday, before fanning out and attacking luxury hotels, a
landmark cafe, hospitals and a railway station, firing
indiscriminately.
Q3 growth slows down at 4.6%;
remittance surge is bright spot
BY RUELLE ALBERT CASTRO
GROSS domestic products grew at a slower pace
of 4.6 percent during the third quarter, from a high of 7.1
percent last year, as the country reeled from high inflation and
from the initial effects of the global financial crisis.
A 24 percent surge in remittances from
overseas workers lifted the gross national product to 6.5
percent but the expansion was lower than the 9.1 percent growth
last year.
The agriculture sector grew by 2.5 percent,
as against 5.7 percent last year. The industry sector posted a
7.1 percent growth against 6.6 percent last year while services
posted a 3.7 percent growth against 8 percent last year.
SEN. Richard Gordon yesterday told former
agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn "Joc Joc" Bolante to
cooperate on the P728-million fertilizer fund scandal or he
would be detained indefinitely in the Senate premises.
"He (Bolante) should be prepared and be frank
and candid. We can detain him in the Senate premises or in Pasay
City jail or in Muntinlupa and he will remain there until he
decides to be more cooperative," Gordon, chair of the Blue
Ribbon committee, said during the weekly Kapihan sa Senado.
The Blue Ribbon has a scheduled hearing on
the fertilizer scandal today.
