Mr Mitra was eventually rescued by policemen and admitted to hospital where he is undergoing tests.
Mr Mitra is trying to raise tax revenues, while seeking debt forgiveness from the central government.
Dr Mitra is most famous for hole-in-the-wall computers which he put in the slums of India.
Shoichet, Marilia Brocchetto, Sarah Aarthun, Alexander Hunter, Mitra Mobasherat, Chandrika Lakshminarayan and Esprit Smith from Atlanta.
The minister hemmed and hawed at my impertinence but afterward, I detected a wink from Mitra on my point.
Mitra was familiar in trade circles as the head of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
"Today's policy rate cut is likely to be the last for several months, " said Aninda Mitra, India economist at Capital Economics.
Ms Banerjee was on her way to the planning commission office in Delhi with Mr Mitra when SFI activists accosted them.
The team is building a BCI that can be used to train Mitra to walk to different locations within a room.
While Ms Banerjee was escorted safely to the commission office by policewomen, the protesters blocked Mr Mitra's way and pushed him around.
But that development took on a more hopeful note with the selection of Amit Mitra as finance secretary in West Bengal.
Amit Mitra, of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, supports similar schemes, as well as preferment schemes by banks.
CNN's Patrick Oppmann, Karen Smith and Mitra Mobasherat contributed to this report.
CNN's Reza Sayah, Saad Abedine and Mitra Mobasherat contributed to this report.
The father was Ved Mitra Manglik, a towering figure famous for building dams and irrigation projects critical to the development of postcolonial India.
The annual TED prize, handed out by organisers of the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference, has gone Dr Sugata Mitra, from Newcastle University.
Over the last few years, a team of Stanford engineering professors, doctoral students, undergraduates, and high-school interns, led by Professors Subhasish Mitra and H.
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Traditional education stresses tests and punishments, two things that Mitra said causes the brain to shut down its rational processes and surrender to fear.
Mitra said he doesn't think teachers are obsolete but suggests their roles may be changing as students increasingly have access to self-learning through computers.
The use of technology in education in emergencies is also on the agenda with guest speaker Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University (UK).
Adopting a method closer to that of grandparents, who shower children with admiration, is "the opposite of the parent method, " which relies on threats, Mitra said.
With the TED Prize money, Mitra intends to build a laboratory, most likely in India, where he can test his theories through experiments that supplement schoolwork.
Politics aside, at the end of the day, Iranian expatriates such as Mitra Gholami, who participated in the historic 1979 revolution, feel a sense of deja vu.
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But Prof Partha Mitra, a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York state, says we need to be aware of the limitations of the technology in use.
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When the head of the World Bank came to see the experiment, Mitra said he encouraged him to go to the New Delhi slum and see for himself.
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Mr Mitra, the finance minister, says the signs are encouraging.
The finance minister, Amit Mitra, an economist and former boss of India's main business lobby, stands in an office in Writers' Building, once used by the East India Company.
"The central bank has begun placing increasing weight to fears that still-high food inflation is raising risks of broader economic instability, " said Aninda Mitra, India economist at Capital Economics.
For instance, a senior TMC leader privately raised doubts about Amit Mitra's 'political acumen' with Forbes India, hinting that he may not be a very acceptable person within the party.
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