Three people were arrested on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the West Bengal chit fund scam. ...
09:57 PM, Apr 23, 2013
SEBI chief UK Sinha said people have tendency to invest in schemes of fast money making. ...
07:12 PM, Apr 23, 2013
A parliamentary panel on coal blocks allocations has suggested that all allotments between 1993 and 2008 be scrapped, effectively blaming the previous NDA government too. ...
07:04 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata/Srinagar: Three people, including the promoter of Saradha group, Sudipta Sen, were arrested in Sonmarg, Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday in connection with the West Bengal chit fund scam. The three people were reportedly on their way from Srinagar to Sonmarg when they were intercepted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police. While a close aide of Sen, Debjani Mukherjee was the second person arrested, the third person, sources say is...
05:34 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: Amid growing public outrage over an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme run by Saradha group, market regulator has begun a fresh probe into the fund-raising activities of the Kolkata-based entity. The capital market regulator is looking into whether its Collective Investment Scheme (CIS) regulations were violated while raising funds from the public, a senior official said. Sources said that Sebi began the latest round of investigation after certain complaints...
01:42 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: There was another suicide bid by a Saradha Group agent hit by the chit fund scam in West Bengal. Twenty-eight-year old Tapasi Singha tried to commit suicide by consuming sleeping pills. She had a liability of Rs 5,30,000. Tapasi and her husband Sri Nandan Singha were agents of Saradha realty. She has been admitted in Jangipur Sub Divisional Hospital. As lakhs of investors in West Bengal lose their savings...
12:47 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: As lakhs of investors in West Bengal lose their savings in a chit fund scam following the collapse of the Saradha Group, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been shifting the blame on the Left. This even as heat builds on Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh who headed Saradha group's media unit. But he claims it was a while back when he was working as a journalist. Advocate Basabi Roy...
10:46 AM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Calcutta High Court on Monday granted leave to file a PIL in the West Bengal chit fund scam. The PIL sought a CBI enquiry into the scam and compensation to the depositors, also alleging vicarious liability by the government. The PIL said it was the duty of the state and the central government to pay compensation to the depositor and also to fix the responsibility of the...
12:32 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday arrested the General Secretary of Students Federation of India (SFI) and five others in connection with the heckling incident during which West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state Finance Minister Amit Mitra were attacked by suspected SFI activists in Delhi as they tried to enter the Planning Commission building. The Trinamool Congress on Monday warned that it will not allow Parliament to...
11:57 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: With political manoeuvrings picking up pace for next year's Lok Sabha elections, the CPI(M) on Sunday said the Trinamool Congress was being wooed by the Bharatiya Janata Party. "The Trinamool Congress has a record of alliance with both the BJP and the Congress. At present, the BJP is wooing the TMC," CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said. He was asked about the possibility of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata...
11:56 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Kolkata: One of the directors of the 'chit fund' company Saradha Group was on Saturday arrested while its Chairman and Managing Director Sudipto Sen was still at large. "We have arrested Manoj Kumar Nagel who is one of the directors of the company from Bidhannagar. We are also looking out for their chairman Sudipta Sen by keeping a vigil at airport and other places," a senior police official at Bidhannagar...
08:35 AM, Apr 21, 2013
The culture of political violence in Bengal is not even sparing holy grounds such as Presidency College (now University) which were till now protected from acts of violence and hooliganism. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: An all-party meeting has been called on Thursday to discuss the Land Acquisition Bill, which seeks to strengthen landowners' rights during acquisition for development. This will be the third all-party meeting on the Land Acquisition Bill. The parties, which failed to arrive on a consensus on the bill in the last two meetings, were asked to give their suggestions by April 15 and six parties are reported to...
08:19 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Kolkata/Siliguri: Stoking controversy, a leader of CPI(M) student wing who was arrested after a clash with ruling Trinamool Congress activists, has been chained to his bed at a state-run hospital in judicial custody. The first year student, Santosh Sahani, of SFI was arrested on April 10 after a clash between Trinamool Congress and Left supporters in Siliguri. The chain was later removed following an uproar with activists alleging violation of...
11:23 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal government team would soon visit Delhi to take up with the Centre the issue of attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra during a protest in the national capital. "A ministerial-level delegation from the state will soon leave here for Delhi after the chief minister fully recovers," state's Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee said in Kolkata on Tuesday. Describing the incident as "most...
10:51 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that her government might have committed '2 or 3' mistakes in the past two years, but would learn from them in the New Year. "In the last 2 years, there have been hundreds of examples of development in Bengal. We also may have made two or three mistakes. But we will learn from our mistakes in the New Year," Trinamool...
04:54 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Also on the show, Cyrus Broacha takes on Congress leader Jagdish Tytler and Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar for his 'urine' remark. ...
10:39 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, undergoing medical treatment for the last three days, was today discharged from the Belle Vue Clinic after agreeing to advice by doctors to take rest. "The chief minister was insisting on returning home since morning and her doctors decided to discharge her with a request to her to take rest," clinic's CEO PK Tondon told PTI. Quoting the chief minister he said she...
08:45 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Kolkata: Efforts were being made to downplay the 'attack' on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and finance minister Amit Mitra by projecting the Presidency incident, the Trinamool Congress claimed on Saturday and reiterated the demand for an impartial inquiry into the vandalism. Stating that the party had condemned both the April 9 'attack' on Banerjee and the finance minister and the vandalism at Presidency University a day after, TMC Secretary General...
06:51 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Kolkata: The CPI(M)-led Left Front on Friday demanded immediate steps against attacks on its party offices and workers in West Bengal following the heckling of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and manhandling of state finance minister Amit Mitra in Delhi on April 9, 2013. "Arson, loot, ransacking and physical assault of party leaders have been reported from many areas," the Front said in a letter to the state Home Secretary Basudeb...
02:45 AM, Apr 13, 2013
