In Khrew Kashmir, cement factories have turned a nightmare for the environment. These factories puff out toxic gases into air, thus threatening the ecology of the area. CJ Abid reports on how cement factories are polluting Kashmir. ...
09:27 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Delhi Police official SN Srivastava said the Delhi Police will inform the Enforcement Directorate about the cash transactions in the IPL scandal. ...
08:19 PM, Jun 06, 2013
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday slapped a Rs 8,600 crore show-cause notice on construction major Emaar MGF Land Ltd and its sister firms for alleged forex rules violation, the biggest such penal action in country's real estate sector. The agency, which began an investigation in 2010 with regard to the group bringing in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), alleged that the firm has violated the rules stipulated by the...
10:54 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has unearthed a huge nexus of illegal drug smuggling money to the tune of Rs 500 crore being laundered and routed through hawala operations in Punjab. The agency, in its operations in the first six months in the state, has stumbled upon a regular modus operandi of laundering of hawala money obtained through criminal activities of narcotics trade and illegal wealth generated in the real...
02:15 PM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: 10.50 pm: Amidst reports that all the BCCI vice presidents are going to resign, one of them, Chitrak Mitra, says he is not going to put in his papers. 9.40 pm: Ankeet Chavan released from Tihar jail a day after a court granted him bail to solemnise his marriage. 9.01 pm: Sources say that all BCCI office-bearers may resign by tonight. 8.26 pm: Ajay Shirke resigns as BCCI...
11:49 AM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday attached a residential property of former Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala under the criminal provisions of money laundering laws after he was recently convicted in a teachers recruitment scam. This is the first attachment order by the agency against the five-time Chief Minister even as it prepares to attach assets acquired by him "illegally and beyond his known source of income" with an...
10:46 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed documents that show former BCCI chief Sharad Pawar had in fact helped BCCI chief N Srinivasan. Documents show that Sharad Pawar as the then BCCI President endorsed India Cements' bid for IPL team. CNN-IBN has accessed Pawar's letter giving an approval to Srinivasan to own an IPL team. Pawar as the BCCI president in 2008 approved change in the constitution and enabled Srinivasan to bid...
03:10 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: Narayanaswami Srinivasan, a 67-year-old industrialist from Chennai, heads the world's richest cricket body, the Board of Control for Cricket in India. He was the BCCI Secretary till September 2011 and before that a BCCI Treasurer. Srinivasan became the cricket body's 30th President in September 2011 after Shashank Manohar's term ended. Srinivasan's term as President extends till 2014. He owns the India Cements Ltd (ICL), a major corporate entity...
01:34 PM, May 29, 2013
BCCI President N Srinivasan continues to remain defiant saying he has done nothing wrong and has no reason to resign. ...
11:09 PM, May 27, 2013
BCCI President N Srinivasan continues to remain defiant saying he has done nothing wrong and has no reason to resign. ...
11:55 AM, May 27, 2013
Chennai/Mumbai: The Chennai Super Kings' claim that Gurunath Meiyappan had no link with the team has been nailed. CNN-IBN has accessed visiting cards recovered from Gurunath Meiyappan's residence naming him as the Chennai Super Kings Team Principal. This came even as BCCI chief N Srinivasan claimed Gurunath Meiyappan wasn't the owner or the Team Principal. Police sources also say that there are several other items found during the raid that...
11:12 AM, May 27, 2013
Kolkata: Beleaguered BCCI chief N Srinivasan, currently under immense pressure to step down in the wake of his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan being at the centre of the IPL scandal, on Sunday said that he won't quit as has not done anything wrong. While trying to clear his stance, Srinivasan said that no one in the BCCI has sought his resignation and also promised a fair probe into allegations against Meiyappan...
04:59 PM, May 26, 2013
India Cement's feeble and clumsy attempt at distancing itself from Gurunath Meiyappan, after he was arrested by the Mumbai police, is failing miserably. In 2009 video, Meiyappan is seen addressing a conclave as the owner of the Chennai IPL franchise. ...
04:20 PM, May 26, 2013
New Delhi: In another twist to IPL betting scandal, Gurunath Meiyappan, who has been facing the heat after his alleged links with arrested bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh came to light, has now been disowned by India Cements the owner of the Chennai Super Kings. India Cements on Friday released a statement stating that Meiyappan "is neither the Owner, nor CEO/Team Principal of Chennai Super Kings". In a written release...
05:32 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday registered a money laundering case in the IPL spot-fixing scandal to probe alleged routing of hawala funds and other financial irregularities which emerged after police investigations. With the ED coming into picture by invoking the criminal clauses of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the noose would tighten against the accused players and bookies as under the said Act the onus...
05:46 PM, May 23, 2013
Washington: The Obama administration may seek to end a long-running debate over Internet wiretaps with proposed legislation that would enable law-enforcement agencies to tap into many types of Internet communications, US officials with knowledge of the matter said. The proposal is aimed at getting past the technical and legal obstacles that make it difficult for the FBI and other agencies with court orders to check so-called voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) services such...
06:20 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate may have seized assets worth Rs 2,357 crore in 2012-13, a seven fold increase from previous fiscal, but it sees the cases of money laundering, forex violations and other economic offences probed by it as just the "tip of the iceberg". The ED has stepped up its prosecution in money laundering cases and is planning to take steps, including filling 1,400 posts, to go full throttle...
05:20 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said Enforcement Directorate should be extremely careful while choosing cases for prosecution under the money laundering law and focus its energies on important ones. "A word of caution is necessary. We must be extremely selective in deciding which cases to prosecute under the money laundering law. Otherwise, we will be overwhelmed with cases that we would be required to prosecute," he said...
04:32 PM, May 01, 2013
Tiruchirappalli: A total of 74 students from the first batch (2011-13) of IIM Tiruchirappalli (IIM-T) have been placed with companies such as Cognizant, KPMG and BPCL, among others, at annual salaries ranging from Rs 11.5-18.25 lakh, the premier management institute has said. These successful placements for the 2011-13 batch were notwithstanding the difficult economic environment, an IIM-T release said, adding that this was the largest first batch among new IIMs...
11:03 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress MP, Kunal Ghosh was on Monday summoned by the Bidhannagar Police for interrogation over the multicrore Saradha chit fund scam. Saradha group promoter Sudipta Sen and his aide Debjani Mukherjee had alleged that Kunal Ghosh had played a role in the fraud. Ghosh, however, denied all the charges against him, alleging it was a conspiracy. "Lies are being spread about me. The probe will bring out...
06:05 PM, Apr 29, 2013
