RG Kar rape-murder case: Can of worms opened, but CBI still clueless

Thirty days have passed after the body of a woman medic, raped and murdered, was recovered from state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, but investigators are still clueless about......

CBI names RG Kar ex-principal Sandip Ghosh in corruption FIR

The Central Bureau of Investigation has named Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in the FIR the agency has filed in connection with its probe into the alleged......

High drama as TMC leaders holding dharna outside EC office held

Trinamool Congress leaders were detained by the Delhi Police on Monday while they were holding a dharna outside the Election Commission's office, demanding that the chiefs of the Central Bureau of......

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......

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......