As per party insiders, the ruling BJP in Karnataka is "under huge pressure" to cancel Muslim and Christian reservations in the state under different categories in education and government services.
Kiran Mazumdar’s contract research and manufacturing firm Syngene International has been on a roller coaster ride on Dalal Street in the ongoing calendar year.
As of 2010, Mazumdar-Shaw was named among TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. She is on the 2011 Financial Times’ top 50 women in business list. As of 2014, she was listed as the 92nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.