Transport minister and senior TMC leader Madan Mitra said that he was never the president of any employees association of the Saradha Group. ...
06:58 PM, Apr 27, 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: 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: 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
Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers on Friday ransacked a police station in Chaighoria in North 24 Parganas district over alleged police inaction on complaints of financial irregularities by a panchayat member. ...
11:08 AM, Feb 23, 2013
A 21-year-old woman has alleged that she was gangraped by five of her office colleagues. The incident took place in North 24 Parganas on Thursday night while the girl was still at work. ...
10:20 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Kolkata: Dengue has afflicted 269 more persons in the metropolis in the past 24 hours, official reports said on Saturday. Apart from Kolkata, other districts hit by the vector-borne disease are North and South 24 Parganas, Howrah and Nadia districts, the reports said. The website of the health department said that dengue has so far claimed three lives in the metropolis where 1,160 persons have been afflicted. Health department sources...
09:48 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday refused to comment on a statement made by actor and Trinamool Congress legislator Chiranjeet that short dresses worn by women were one of the reasons behind the increase in incidents of harassment. "I don't know anything about it," Banerjee said when asked to comment on the statement made by her party MLA. However, after facing criticism, Chiranjeet tried to clarify his...
11:34 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Kolkata: Bengali actor and Trinamool Congress legislator Chiranjeet aka Dipak Chakraborty on Saturday contended that short dresses worn by women were one of the main reasons behind the increase in incidents of harassment of women in his constituency in the North 24 Parganas district. "Eve-teasing is a very old thing. It has been going on for ages. One of the reasons behind the increase in incidents of eve-teasing is short...
08:51 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Barasat (WB): A girl student of class VIII was stripped and searched before classmates on Friday by a teacher on the charge of stealing money at Gopalnagar in North 24 Parganas district. The girl's father Pabitra Mondal lodged an FIR alleging that the teacher, Rupali, of Gopalnagar Giribala Balika Vidyalaya claimed that his daughter had stolen money from a classmate and stripped and searched her in the presence of other...
10:05 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Barasat (West Bengal): A 16-year-old boy was killed after being stabbed, kicked and punched repeatedly by a group of drunken youths, who were trying to molest his sister near the North 24 Parganas District Magistrate's bungalow Barasat. Rajib Das, who was due to appear in this year's Madhyamik Examination (secondary examination), was left bleeding on the street on Monday night at a spot, 400 metres away from the District Magistrate's...
03:08 PM, Feb 16, 2011
Dhaka: Angry fans wielded broom-sticks at the Bangladesh cricket team on their return to Dhaka from the disappointing tour of Zimbabwe on Wednesday. Zimbabwe, returning to Test cricket after a six-year exile for political reasons, beat Bangladesh by 130 runs in a one-off match. The home side also won the one-day international series 3-2, Bangladesh's first limited-overs series defeat by Zimbabwe in six years. Dozens of fans gathered at Dhaka's...
08:47 PM, Feb 24, 2008
