{"id":324334,"date":"2020-06-30T06:39:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324334"},"modified":"2020-06-30T06:39:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:39:40","slug":"mumbais-taj-hotel-receives-bomb-threat-call-from-pakistan-security-tightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mumbais-taj-hotel-receives-bomb-threat-call-from-pakistan-security-tightened\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai&#8217;s Taj Hotel receives bomb threat call from Pakistan, security tightened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324335 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200630-121117__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200630-121117__01.jpg 833w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200630-121117__01-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200630-121117__01-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200630-121117__01-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200630-121117__01-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200630-121117__01-696x482.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200630-121117__01-606x420.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/>Security has been tightened around the iconic Hotel Taj Mahal Palace after it received a threat call from Pakistan to blow it up, sources said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to officials, the call was made from Pakistan at around 12.30 am and the caller threatened to blow up the hotel with bombs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The caller identified himself as a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and said that the hotel would be attacked, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Mumbai police have beefed up the security outside\u00a0Taj Hotel\u00a0and nearby areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In 2008, Taj Hotel had become the victim of the 26\/11 Mumbai terror attack which killed 166 people and over 300 injured.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security has been tightened around the iconic Hotel Taj Mahal Palace after it received a threat call from Pakistan to blow it up, sources said on Tuesday. According to officials, the call was made from Pakistan at around 12.30 am and the caller threatened to blow up the hotel with bombs. The caller identified himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[71,6759],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324336,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324334\/revisions\/324336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}