Cricket fans offer sweets to poster of cricket player Sachin Tendulkar, depicted as Hanuman, ahead of his 40th birthday in Allahabad. In Kolkata, blind students along with their teachers cut a cake to celebrate Tendulkar's birthday. PTI Photo. ...
11:13 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Tuesday ordered Saradha Realty India and its MD Sudipta Sen, accused in the West Bengal chit fund scam, to wind up all its collective investment schemes and refund money to the investors within three months. The SEBI order said that Saradha Realty and its chief were barred from the securities market till all the money was refunded to the...
10:24 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: Welcoming batting legend Sachin Tendulkar to the club of 40, former India skipper and Mumbai Indians mentor Anil Kumble on Tuesday said a win over Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday will be the best way to celebrate April 24 - the maestro's birthday. "I welcome Sachin to the club of cricketers past 40 and wish him all the best. The best way to celebrate his birthday would be a...
07:27 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: Sachin Tendulkar may want muted celebrations for his 40th birthday on Wednesday but the city of joy is all set to throw a huge party for the veteran Indian batsman. Tendulkar, who will be in the city for his Mumbai Indians' clash against Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday, will begin the day with a customary cake-cutting ceremony at the team hotel. "We have arranged a special programme way ahead...
01:35 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: With her government drawing flak after the Saradha Group downed shutters, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday blamed the erstwhile Left Front regime for the mushrooming of chit funds, alleging it had not even acted on presidential advice for a strong legislation to contain the menace. Breaking her silence on the issue days after the firm went bust, affecting lakhs of agents and distributors who had parked...
05:38 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: As the chit fund meltdown is spreading like a contagion in rural Bengal, a 50-year-old woman, who had deposited Rs 30,000 in Saradha Group, on Sunday, succumbed to her injuries after she set herself on fire. The woman set herself on fire on Saturday evening at her home after coming to know that the company had gone bust. Meanwhile, the Mamata government is on the defensive with the Left...
08:42 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Kolkata: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Asim Dasgupta on Sunday urged the central government to step in and launch a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the collapse of chit fund-funded company Saradha Group. Dasgupta, a noted economist who held the finance portfolio for 24 years during the Left Front rule, also rejected allegations that chit fund companies had flourished during the LF regime. "My question...
04:23 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Kolkata: A 50-year-old woman, who had deposited money in chit fund company Saradha Group, on Sunday succumbed to her injuries after she set herself on fire, while a man tried to poison himself, even as political parties traded charges over the scandal. Urmila Pramanik, a resident of Baruipur in South-24 Parganas district, who had invested Rs 30,000 with the chit fund company, set herself on fire on Saturday evening at...
10:23 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Kolkata: Threatening to file defamation suit against CPI(M) leaders for alleging that he had received crores from absconding Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen, TMC general secretary Mukul Roy on Sunday said the government will take steps to book the accused and protect investors' interest. "These are baseless allegations. I will file a defamation suit against them (CPI(M) leaders)," Roy said referring to the allegation of his receiving money from the...
09:14 PM, Apr 21, 2013
The fight for getting the Purple cap this season in the Indian Premier League seems to be getting intense with every passing day. Legspinner Amit Mishra got hold of the Purple Cap on Friday when he also became the highest wicket taker in IPL, and within 24 hours it was overtaken by Royal Challengers Bangalore's best bowler this season Vinay Kumar. The Karnataka pacer now has 12 wickets this season,...
09:26 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
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee's government feels the heat as one of the largest chit fund companies in West Bengal collapses. Fearing a backlash from upset investors, thousands of the Saradha Group agents have gathered in Kolkata seeking state government's intervention. But the company's proximity to the Trinamool Congress has put the government in a corner. "If the government does something for us, then it's fine. Then they'll get votes else we...
08:05 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Kolkata: The opposition Congress on Saturday accused West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress government of having close links with chit fund-funded Saradha Group, which has gone bust, and demanded probe by the CBI and capital market regulator SEBI. "The state government has very close relations with a few groups and people, and it stopped the government from taking appropriate actions at the right time," Congress's state unit president Pradip Bhattacharya said....
05:52 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 Sudipta 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...
10:25 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Kolkata: Blaming the batsmen for a humiliating loss against Chennai Super Kings in their Indian Premier League match at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir Saturday said it was time for his willowers to pull up their socks. "Our batsmen have been committing schoolboy errors. In fact, we have been batting badly since the last few games. It is high time the batsmen pulled up their socks...
10:11 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Kolkata: There were serious concerns about impending showers when the two captains walked out for the toss under grey skies, but the actual storm was played out on the field as Chennai Super Kings got the better of Kolkata Knight Riders in a low-scorer highlighted by sloppy batting and manic running between the wickets. Cricket-wise it was a match to forget, but the drama made for another scrappy thriller as...
07:05 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Kolkata: Violent clashes broke out between the investors and employees of a chit fund company in Barasat, in the Moyna area of North 24 Parganas district, on Saturday. The incident happened after investors demanding refund gathered near a local chit fund organisation's office. Scores of people were injured after crude bombs were hurled and large scale brick-batting took place between the two groups. Police resorted to lathicharge to disperse the...
06:44 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Live updates from Game 26 of IPL 6 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Saturday. Upbeat after a thumping win over Delhi Daredevils on Thursday, the two-time winners face defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders in game 26 of IPL 6. Gautam Gambhir-led KKR will look to bounce back in the tournament in front of their passionate home fans at Eden Gardens....
03:04 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Kolkata: Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders on Friday hinted at dropping the misfiring Yusuf Pathan for Brendon McCullum in their crucial encounter against Chennai Super Kings at the Eden Gardens on Saturday. When asked if the team management was thinking of including McCullum, Knight Riders coach Trevor Bayliss said there is a strong possibility that the New Zealand skipper will get a look in. McCullum has been warming the benches...
09:42 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Kolkata: A medical team from the private clinic, where she was treated recently, on Friday examined West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her Writers' Buildings office for an hour and advised her complete rest. "Since she is busy in her office, we could not contact her and so we directly came here to examine her," Subroto Maitra, head of the medical team from Belle Vue Clinic, where Mamata was...
08:20 PM, Apr 19, 2013
