The Central Bureau of Investigation team question West Bengal Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee at his office.
Chatterjee has been asked by the economic offences wing of the CBI to depose before its officials by next week at the CGO Complex office in Kolkata
The trio duped 32 lakh investors, the Enforcement Directorate said
Former Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar did not appear for questioning twice in spite of CBI notices after the Kolkata High Court withdrew the protection given to him from the arrest last week.
A multi-crore Ponzi scheme run by Karnataka-based I-Monetary Advisory (IMA) and its group entities which allegedly duped lakhs of people promising higher returns using Islamic ways of investment.
The SIT said that its sources in Dubai persuaded him to come back and submit himself before the law.
In a dramatic development on late Monday night, a team of Special Investigation Team sleuths detained 68-year-old rebel Congress MLA Roshan Baig at the city airport as he was about to board a private chartered aircraft to Mumbai.
According to ED officials, the Rose Valley Ponzi scheme scam run by the Group's Chairman Gautam Kundu was unearthed in 2013.
On the basis of complaints, investments and deposits made by thousands of investors in the Ponzi scheme, an estimated Rs 1,250 crore is stuck with IMA.
All airports and immigration authorities have been alerted by the CBI this week to prevent former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar from leaving the country and intimate the agency on any possible move, officials said.
The state BJP president alleged that most of the senior police officers in Bengal were behaving like TMC cadres.
Mamata has asked the poll panel to review its decision and also initiate a probe as to how and under whose guidance the decision of the transfers was taken.
The CBI has claimed that though an FIR had been registered against Rose Valley at the Bidhan Nagar police station, even before the SIT was constituted, the senior IPS officer did not initiate any investigation against Kundu’s Ponzi schemes.
Mamata’s continuing tirade against Modi and her effort to bring the opposition together on the singular issue of ‘Oust Modi’ in the coming elections has already started showing some results.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Kumar to make himself available before the CBI and "faithfully" cooperate with the agency
The news of the arrest of Suman Chattopadhyay found little or no coverage at all in Kolkata media.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.