As part of its ongoing efforts to preserve and restore significant cultural, historical, and spiritual heritage sites, the Uttar Pradesh government has prepared a detailed plan for various significant sites in Kanpur, Mathura, and Fatehpur.
Several Islamists and media houses painted the terrorists as 'generous' for providing the released hostages with tea and cookies. However, one of the released women talked to the media and said that she was assaulted and that she had to see hell on this Earth due to Hamas terrorists.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has drawn a parallel between the terrorist attacks by Lashkar-e-Taiba in Mumbai and Hamas in Israel, emphasising that all acts of terrorism are "unlawful and unjustifiable."