9 dead, several injured as under-construction building collapses in Kolkata

The collapse of an illegal under-construction building in Kolkata's western fringes claiming at least nine lives and injuring 17 more early on Monday provoked a fierce political debate over whether......

Shahjahan Sheikh handed over to CBI over 2.5 hrs after HC deadline

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday got the custody of Sandeshkhali Enforcement Directorate (ED) official attack case accused Shahjahan Sheikh from the West Bengal Criminal......

HC hands over Shajahan Sheikh cases to CBI; Bengal challenges order

The Calcutta high court on Tuesday directed that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) be handed over the case of attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at Sandeshkhali and the......

Bengal CID refuses to give Shajahan Sheikh's custody to CBI

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is likely to move the Calcutta high court on Wednesday against the West Bengal government for not handing over suspended Trinamool Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh's......

Surat tops list of maximum number of shell firms in India

2,138 firms deposited unaccounted Rs 5,000 cr in zero-balance accounts during the note ban Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Surat has replaced Kolkata as the new capital of shell firms that......

The fall of the turnaround tycoon

Industrialist Pawan Ruia's (think Dunlop and Jessop) arrest this month for cheating and criminal breach of trust marked a new low, but the tide had been turning against him for a while now. Ishita......

Why Mamata Banerjee threatens to take over Duncans Goenka group

The Duncans Goenka group is in a spot of bother over the death of workers and non-payment of dues to employees. In early 1979, Kolkata-based Keshav Prasad Goenka arranged his companies into three......

Saradha scam: ED questions Bengal minister, Aparna Sen

West Bengal Textiles minister Shyamapada Mukherjee and actor Aparna Sen were on Monday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in Kolkata in connection with its money laundering probe in the......

I have been framed, says athlete Pinki

Asian Games gold medalist Pinki Pramanik walked out of jail after 26 days on Wednesday and said she was falsely implicated in the rape case. She was arrested after a woman charged that the athlete......