'The entire system acted as cheerleaders to Vijay Mallya. The RBI failed, the banks failed, the auditors of the banks and Mallya failed.'
In commercial real estate, leasing of office space was higher although the activities were subdued in retail segment.
'The response to terror is not always reciprocal terror, nor is launching a conventional response the best response.' 'The best response is to make the sponsor pay a price he cannot afford,' says former RA&W chief Vikram Sood.
Rediff.com looks at other sensational murder mysteries that left India shell-shocked.