Mamata Banerjee

Highlights: Rahul Gandhi should be projected as UPA's PM candidate, Kamal Nath tells NDTV

Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Wednesday May 22, 2013

On the fourth anniversary of the UPA II, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath told NDTV that Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi should replace Manmohan Singh as the prime ministerial candidate of the UPA in the next general elections. Here ar...

No timely action by West Bengal government in Saradha case: Sebi

Sreenivasan Jain | Tuesday May 21, 2013

Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) chief UK Sinha today told NDTV that despite the regulator informing the West Bengal government, no timely action was taken against chit-fund companies like Saradha that allegedly cheated thousands of inve...

Why fund scams are able to thrive in India

Friday May 17, 2013

But Saradha went bust in April, wiping out as much as $3.7 billion in deposits from mostly low-income Indians, miring West Bengal's government in scandal, and illustrating the risks faced by the millions who live outside the banking system.

Protest against chit-fund scam turns violent in Kolkata; students, cops clash

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Tuesday May 14, 2013

Student protestors, demanding action on the Saradha chit-fund scam, clashed with the police in Central Kolkata today. The protestors, who are from the student wing of the Socialist Unity Centre of India, were marching from College Street towards the ...

Calcutta High Court orders 3-phase panchayat polls in West Bengal by July 15; rejects poll panel's demand for central forces

Monideepa Banerjie | Tuesday May 14, 2013

The Calcutta High Court today disposed off the appeal by the state government against the order of the single bench last Friday by ordering panchayat elections by July 15 in three phases with forces from other states and central forces if necessary.

Chit fund scam: Calcutta High Court to hear plea seeking CBI probe

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Tuesday May 14, 2013

The Calcutta High Court will today hear a Public Interest Litigation or PIL demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the Saradha chit fund scam that has wiped out the savings of lakhs of small investors in West Bengal.

Calcutta High Court orders CBI probe into alleged custodial death of Trinamool activist

Reported by Monideepa Banerjie; Edited by Mala Das | Tuesday May 14, 2013

In a setback to the Mamata Banerjee government, the Calcutta High Court has ordered a CBI probe into the death of a Trinamool activist allegedly in police custody in the Hooghly district earlier this year. The court pulled up the Criminal Investigati...

Man claims himself a 'Maoist', detained near Mamata Banerjee's house

Press Trust of India | Monday May 13, 2013

A man who claimed to be a Maoist was detained near West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's house this morning, the police said.

Setback for Mamata Banerjee, Calcutta High Court says announcement of panchayat elections illegal

Reported by Monideepa Banerjie; Edited by Mala Das | Friday May 10, 2013

In a huge setback for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Calcutta High Court has ruled that the state government's announcement of dates for the panchayat polls was illegal. Ms Banerjee's government had first announced that the elections...

West Bengal chit fund scam: Saradha chief Sudipta Sen, his aide sent to nine-day police custody

Monideepa Banerjie | Thursday May 9, 2013

Sudipta Sen, the millionaire whose Saradha group collapsed last month, and his associate Debjani Mukherjee were today sent to nine-day police custody by a Kolkata court.

Supreme Court rap for Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar

Edited by Sindhu Manjesh | Tuesday May 7, 2013

Not good enough, the Supreme Court said today in response to the affidavit filed by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar explaining the action taken against a senior cop for slapping a woman protestor in the capital last month. The court also made ...

In call for 'parivartan', Mamata Banerjee says no UPA-III in 2014

Monideepa Banerjie (With PTI inputs) | Monday May 6, 2013

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has issued a slogan for the forthcoming general election: no third UPA government. At a rally at Panihati near Kolkata on Saturday, she exhorted regional parties to come together and give the country a stabl...

West Bengal: The Trinamool's 'cheat' fund nexus

Reported by Sreenivasan Jain (with inputs from Alok Pandey, Niha Masih) | Sunday May 5, 2013

The Mamata Banerjee government is facing an escalating crisis, with fresh proof emerging every day of Trinamool's links to the fraudulent chit fund company, run by the Saradha Group.

The chit fund, media, Trinamool tangle in West Bengal

Reported by Alok Pandey; Edited by Sindhu Manjesh | Wednesday May 1, 2013

The Saradha Group that collapsed last month controlled many television channels and newspapers in West Bengal. So do some other companies that have been accused of running Saradha-like get-rich-quick schemes.

Juhi Chawla was inspired by politicians for Gulab Gang

Press Trust of India | Wednesday May 1, 2013

Juhi Chawla imbibed the mannerism and dressing style of leading women politicians like Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj and Mamata Banerjee for her role in the upcoming film Gulab Gang.