Five people were killed, and over 100 injured as a statewide shutdown in Gujarat called by the Patidar Arakshan Andolan Samiti turned violent
The conference, which was held at Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver and attended by distinguished businessmen and media from B.C., was to highlight the growth and development of Haryana and encourage investors and businessmen to invest in the state.
The data on population by religious communities of census 2011, released by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, said Hindus constitute 79.8 percent and Muslims 14.2 percent of the population.
In this turmoil, the Indian rupee also fell to its lowest in two years at 66.74 to a dollar.
A UN tribunal on Monday asked India and Italy to "suspend" ongoing court proceedings in the Italian marines case and not initiate new ones that could "aggravate" the dispute. India said it will abide by the tribunal's decisions.
"During the enactment of the RTI Act, it was never visualised or considered to bring the political parties within the ambit of the said (RTI) Act," the government said in its affidavit.