It is located in southern Mumbai overlooking the harbour and the famous Gateway of India monument.

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The Taj is right opposite the Gateway of India and the entire area has been cordoned off.

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Police said they came by boats to the waterfront near the Gateway of India monument and the two hotels.

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Thousands of miles away, the Gateway's kitchen at the tourist town of Khajuraho in central India has been home for a month now to 62-year-old Santosh Pataria.

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A. The one inherent geographic advantage of California that gives me absolute confidence in terms of our future is our gateway status to Asia in the broadest sense to India, China and the rest of Asia.

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"Our country is the gateway for this kind of drug-resistant malaria to spread west to Bangladesh and India, " Saw Lwin, from Burma's Health Ministry, told reporters in Thailand.

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It is the gateway to a state of amber forts and lake palaces that attracts about 10% of India's foreign tourists.

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Their sense of humor is a prized commodity, a gateway to riches and fame, instead of social ridicule as it would have been in the India of yore.

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