San Francisco: Police are on the hunt for a man who walked into a San Francisco art gallery, grabbed a valuable pencil drawing by Pablo Picasso off the wall and fled in a waiting taxicab. Police on Tuesday said the drawing, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, was taken from the Weinstein Gallery near Union Square. The gallery says Picasso created the one-of-a-kind drawing titled "Tete de Femme" in 1965....
12:07 PM, Jul 06, 2011
New York: Convicted hedge fund tycoon Raj Rajaratnam is no longer on trial, but his voice is going to be heard again in court on at least one phone tap in the trial of his former employee, Zvi Goffer, potential jurors were told on Monday. Rajaratnam's name dominated the questioning of scores of New Yorkers who could be among the 12 jurors selected for the five-week-long trial of Goffer and...
08:33 AM, May 17, 2011
New York: A US judge hearing the insider trading case involving Raj Rajaratnam on Tuesday ruled that the prosecution could not submit as evidence video-surveillance footage that shows a former Intel Corp employee faxing confidential information to the Galleon group founder. Judge Richard Holwell ruled against the admissibility of the footage a day after the defence and prosecution had argued about the admissibility of the two videotapes and faxed information....
10:27 PM, Apr 05, 2011
New York: Fund manager Raj Rajaratnam made $1 million in two minutes of frantic calls after receiving an inside tip about a big investment in Goldman Sachs Group Inc at the height of the financial crisis, prosecutors said at the Galleon founder's insider trading trial. In the biggest Wall Street insider trading case since the 1980s, US prosecutors have persistently pressed phone tap evidence that Rajaratnam had a direct line...
08:42 AM, Mar 31, 2011
New York: Goldman Sachs Group Inc chief Lloyd Blankfein testified that a former director at Wall Street's most powerful bank violated confidentiality by leaking boardroom secrets to hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam. Blankfein was called to testify by prosecutors in Manhattan federal court about Goldman's results in 2008, and a crucial investment that September by billionaire Warren Buffett at the height of the financial crisis - secrets that prosecutors said...
08:23 AM, Mar 24, 2011
New York: Regardless of whether Hedge Fund chief Raj Rajaratnam ends up testifying at his criminal trial, jurors are going to hear a lot from him. Testimony resumes on Monday in the biggest Wall Street insider trading trial in decades, with New York prosecutors expected to play more of the Galleon Group founder's phone calls tapped by the FBI. Rajaratnam is accused of making about $45 million in illegal profit...
12:13 PM, Mar 12, 2011
First time in about three years, works of MF Husain will be displayed on a public platform. ...
08:52 AM, Jan 19, 2011
Kolkata: The Chinese government has decided to donate Rs 53.6 lakh for the establishment of a gallery on Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in the Tagore Museum of Rabindra Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal. An agreement in this regard was inked on Friday between the Chinese ministry of culture and the University at Tagore House, a release from the Chinese consulate general said on Saturday. Mao Siwei, consul general of China...
06:18 PM, Aug 31, 2010
It showcases more than 40 medical paintings by Shubgadarshini Singh. ...
11:20 AM, Feb 24, 2010
The painting shows the brothers dressed in their military uniforms. ...
02:51 PM, Jan 07, 2010
It's a rare foray into contemporary installation art. ...
12:33 AM, Nov 18, 2009
4 charged in America's largest ever insider trading case. ...
07:52 PM, Nov 06, 2009
Suspects sometimes behaved like gangsters on
The Sopranos. ...
12:42 PM, Nov 06, 2009
Hedge fund investor's money may found its way to Tamil rebels. ...
07:05 PM, Oct 19, 2009
Lankan billionaire Rajaratnam's arrest brings skeletons tumbling out of closet. ...
12:56 PM, Oct 19, 2009
Teenage fast bowler Mohammad Aamer led Pakistan's spirited new-look attack to bowl out Sri Lanka for 292 on the opening day of the first cricket Test in Galle on Saturday. ...
06:51 PM, Jul 04, 2009
Head of Sri Lankan Defence Ministry Media Centre spoke to CNN-IBN. ...
02:56 AM, Apr 30, 2009
