Anyone with such experiences could have been expected to turn fundamentalist. But Shaheen Kadri is anything but that.
Curfew was clamped in Mehsana town in Gujarat and mobile internet service banned on Sunday as a massive rally of the Patel community demanding reservation.
Roads leading to the protest hub were packed with Jat agitators from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Punjab, giving a tough time to motorists and commuters.
He flew down to Mumbai as a Congress troubleshooter with a mission to save the wobbly coalition government in Karnataka, but minister D K Shivakumar hardly found any support from the Maharashtra unit of his party in his task and was sent packing to his home state.
"Let us all together stop the party and government from going into the hands of a single family again. Let us form a people's government again in sync with the aspirations of people and till then this struggle will continue," he said.
A historic Chola-era idol of Shiva and Parvati, stolen from a temple in India and sumggled into the United States by notorious Indian art dealer Subhash Kapoor, has been recovered from a university in Indiana.
By pegging the exact area of the Babri Masjid site at 0.313 acres, and not the original 2.77 acres, the government hopes to be in line with the court ruling in the 1994 Ismail Faruqui case which mentions return of land to original claimants once the exact area needed for acquisition is determined, observes Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
'Location is your primary sensitive data in today's time.' 'Location information is taken at a premium today because it can be sold and shared.' 'When we share our locations, the cyber security-aspect becomes very vulnerable.' 'If your identity and location is shared, then it is far easier for a criminal to target you for whatever purpose.'
India has performed poorly in international patent filings last year compared to its neighbour China, according to data released by the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation.
BJP general secretary and in-charge of Karnataka's party affairs P Muralidhar Rao alleged that the problem of the Congress was looking at schemes through the prism of religion which is reflected in promising benefits to autorickshaw owners, "who in majority belong to the minority community."
Anuj Puri, chairman and country head at JLL India explains the dynamics of the city's real estate.
Suspected pro-Tamil protesters attacked and damaged a hotel run by a native of Karnataka in Chennai.
A decade has seen many welcome changes in this hill district of Jammu and Kashmir, says Anjuli Bhargava.
IFCI, a state-run financial institution, today sold Rs 51.7 crore worth shares of Unitech, the nation's second-biggest property developer, as the promoters of the company failed to repay loans raised against pledged shares.
Real estate company Sobha Developers' net profit has more than halved for the 2009 financial year, as property sales dipped sharply in the country, leading to dropping revenues and profits.
Leading media portal Yahoo India on Thursday announced the appointment of Deepak Karambelkar as its head of production and content.
The 'Make in India' vision cannot survive in the long-term without concrete measures to build a concurrent 'Create in India' movement.
The apex court had asked Roy to pay Rs 10,000 cr.
Sikka is considered to be the force behind SAP's analytics platform, HANA that had helped the company strengthen its position in the global market.
If the Bhima Koregaon commission is terminated before completing its work, the people affected by the violence 'would feel cheated'.
Jaitley also said that several states have framed laws to deal with ponzi scheme-related cases
The previous board of Fortis Healthcare had links with Singh brothers and there was an investigation by law firm Luthra and Luthra into Rs 472 crore that was diverted into other companies.
Floyd died in Minneapolis on Monday after a white police officer pinned him to the ground. Video footage showed the officer kneeling on Floyd's neck as he gasped for breath. His death has triggered nationwide protests.
Ramesh released some fresh documents including one of 1949 which showed that the Dholpur Palace was owned by the Rajasthan government.
Pyramid Saimira Entertainment Limited, Singapore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pyramid Saimira Group has bagged the rights of Kuselan in both Tamil and Telugu.
Four years ago, steel tycoon Laxmi Mittal purchased his first house on Kensington Palace Gardens for about pound 57 million. Last year, he purchased a pound 70 million house for his daughter Vanisha and a pound 117 million mansion for his son Aditya in the same street. At the time, the combined value of the three properties was valued at about pound 440 million. Today, the houses are worth about $ 200 million, an amount almost equivalent to the purchase prices.
Sony eyes a 2 billion payoff from telecasting the Fifa World Cup.
Dangal has the potential to surpass the Rs 340 crore mark set by PK.
'If today, I have to take up a nude role, I will, if I like the script and the director.'' 'It has to affect me as a script and be meaningful.' 'It should not be to titillate the audience.'
'It is only when those who are oppressed stand for themselves that society is forced to create space for them,' says Aakar Patel.
Free 35 kg rice a month, free power supply to farmers, crop loans to peasants at zero per cent interest rate are among the sops promised by Congress in its manifesto for Chhattisgarh assembly elections scheduled this month.
India stands at an embarrassingly low 130 among 190 countries in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business rankings. But in our worry over it are we forgetting the big picture -- to make India an attractive investment destination -- wonders Avirup Bose.
The CM also announced compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for those killed during the protest and Rs 3 lakh each for the injured, government jobs for the family members of the deceased also announced.
Quite fed up with the state government's dilly-dally approach in repealing the ULCA in September, while releasing the grant of around Rs 400 crore under the JNURM, the Centre had warned the state government that if it did not repeal the ULCA, funding under the JNURM scheme would be stopped. Subsequently, the state legislature had passed a Bill to repeal the ULCA in the recently concluded winter session of the Assembly.
As many as 26 of 50 urban hubs across the country have shown a moderate upturn in housing prices between December 2016 and March 2017
Adverse IPR report expected this week;Poor labelling could take fight to WTO
According to a report by Hong Kong-based human resources consultancy major ECA International released on Wednesday, Mumbai has recorded second highest annual growth of 21 per cent in residential rental after 33 per cent for Singapore in 2007. Mumbai has now become Asia's third and the world's sixth most expensive location to rent a three-bedroom apartment. This makes it costlier than places like Seoul, Singapore, Paris, Shanghai, Dubai, Beijing, St Petersburg and Amsterdam.
Seven of the 30 largest U.S. corporations paid more money to their chief executive officers last year than they paid in U.S. federal income taxes, according to a study released on Tuesday that was disputed by at least one of the companies.
A high alert has been issued in the state after the landslide in Nepal. Precautionary measures have been completed," said Bihar's CM.
There has been an increase of $17 trillion in total debt in China.
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