Long before he launched Paytm, Vijay Shankar Sharma, a 32 year old from Aligarh, embarked on his ambitious entrepreneurial journey.
The Australian media has identified the gunman as Haron Monis, who was granted political asylum in Australia.
He was seen as one of former PM Rao's trusted aides and advisers.
Fourteen ministers are from the Congress, nine from its ruling coalition partner Janata Dal-Secular and one each from the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party.
Chinese New Year falls on February 14 this year -- the year if the Tiger. So what does the coming year hold in store? Check out your Chinese astrological forecast!
"Only the Congress and the JD-S are celebrating, people of Karnataka are not," he told reporters.
A look at what the stars predict for the coming year.
Tarot reader Aparna Bose on what 2010 holds in store.
G Madhavan Nair also propounded the theory that some shlokas in the Vedas mentioned about the presence of water on the moon
Timeline of events relating to proceedings on the issue.
'More people will come out of the BJP. You just wait and watch.'
While giving a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the 2002 communal riots in that state, Bhartiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh on Thursday dropped a bombshell by virtually blaming former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for the anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of his mother, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984.
He is talking, making sense, and India is listening. Rahul Gandhi needs to listen to him, too, says Shekhar Gupta.
The mystery over incidents of chopping of braids in Delhi and other states continued as more such cases were reported.
'I will never create a romantic angle to survive on a game show. I do not give a damn what people think of it,' Karishma Tanna tells Rajul Hegde/ Rediff.com
Who is the judge next in line to be Chief Justice of India? M J Antony tells us about Justice Gogoi who has put 'discharging a debt to the nation' above the prospect of being the next CJI.
Justice J Chelameswar, who courted controversy by virtually revolting against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, also said that impeachment cannot be an answer to every problem and there was need to correct the system.
'If the TRS, with 75% seats in the Telangana assembly, can be coerced into a sense of resignation by a tiny party that has just 10% of seats, then questions have to be asked about KCR's mettle as leader,' says Sudhir Bisht.
Malayalam film Bangalore Days boasts of fine performances, says Paresh C Palicha.
If only making it official was as easy as falling in love, says Sukanya Verma.
In the crazily complex cauldron that is India, where caste, community, class and cash are just the primary ingredients, no one has yet come up with a fool-proof method to ascertain how voters make up their minds, on which button to press, in the privacy of their 'confessional' booths, notes Krishna Prasad.
Malayalam film The Dolphins gets preachy after a while, says Paresh C Palicha.
Curtains came down on Tuesday evening on campaigning for 57 seats going to poll in the fifth and last phase of bitterly-fought Bihar assembly elections on November five, with acrimonious exchanges provoking showcause notices from the Election Commission to top leaders of rival alliances.
The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday informed the Bombay high court that it cannot probe into the murder of anti-superstition activist Dr Narendra Dabholkar as the offence fell under the Indian Police Code and was not covered under the purview of NIA Act.
Ram V Sutar, 89, has already created more than 200 distinct statues, many of them massive. Now, he is a leading contender for the commission to produce the world's largest statue: A 597-foot tall rendering of Sardar Patel, an independence leader who played a crucial role in uniting India's fractious states.
A Bengaluru-based techie killed his wife, tried to get his friend arrested, so that he could get closer to the friend's wife whom he was in love with.
The director could have done better by avoiding the cliched tales.
The American police said that the Las Vegas shooting was not an act of terrorism because he acted alone. The killer was a Christian. Would the police have said the same thing if he was Muslim? I don't think so.
A constipated, constricting UCC would be worse than the current scenario of competing personal laws, says Devangshu Datta.
Slapped by the Bollywood star, Santosh Rai got back by slapping a case against the actor-turned-politician.
'I am a daughter of the mountains and my heart is free of care.'
In Muthuvel Karunanidhi's passing, Tamil Nadu has lost the last of its Titans.
Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, was not just a poet, playwright, dancer and patron of the arts, says Payal Mohanka. He was a royal who hand-created his personal calendar.
TTV Dinakaran's road to reaching the poll stage could still be strewn with legal difficulties, as much as political problems from other new players, like actors Kamal Hassan and Rajinikanth, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'So complete is Modi's takeover of the foreign ministry, that Swaraj today is less important than a minister of state for secularism in Modi's government!'
Sadly, the attitude and ada that makes Rekha so timeless is dumbed down in a role and film so behind its time, rues Sukanya Verma after watching Super Nani.
If you ignore market upheavals and stay the course, you end up making money, says Larissa Fernand
Karnataka would have served no useful purpose by initiating a sensitive legal move in a sensational case, where its locus standi might have been confined to appealing against the high court verdict and not extend to a demand for stay of its application
In our special series re-visiting great Hindi film classics, Sukanya Verma looks back at Raj Kapoor's Boot Polish (1954), starring Baby Naaz and Ratan Kumar.
The tragic replay of events at the house of Bansal, Former Director General Corporate Affairs, in East Delhi's Neelkanth Apartments came to light when the family's maid entered the flat through an "unlocked door" around 9 am.
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