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Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar and former Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh on Monday appeared before the CBI here for questioning in connection with investigations in chit fund cases. This is the third day of grilling for Kumar and the second for Ghosh. Ghosh arrived at the CBI office here shortly after 10 am while Kumar reached an hour later, an official told . On Sunday, the probe agency questioned Kumar separately and also along with Ghosh. The marathon questioning of the two lasted over eight hours, he said. The former Trinamool Congress MP was arrested in 2013 in the Saradha ponzi scam and has been out on bail since 2016. The CBI is questioning the two in accordance with directions of the Supreme Court. The Kolkata Police chief was quizzed for nearly nine hours on Saturday by three senior CBI officers about his alleged role in tampering of crucial evidence in the Saradha case, they said. He was also examined in the Rose Valley case on Sunday. Kumar led the … [Read more...] about Kolkata Police chief, ex-MP appear before CBI for questioning in Shillong

Backward Classes Welfare Association (BCWA) national president R. Krishnaiah criticised the TRS government for not keeping its promising of filling all the 2.3 lakh vacancies of government posts even after six years of its rule.Speaking at a meeting of the unemployed youth organised by the BCWA here on Saturday, he said the government completed one full term and one year in the second term but the party’s promise on jobs remain unfulfilled as it could fill only about 25,000 jobs till date. National vice-president of BCWA G. Krishna, other BC associations’ representatives P. Bhaskar, M. Mahender Goud, G. Krishna Yadav, J. Raghava and others also spoke.“The unemployed youth are not even asking for creation of new employment opportunities in the government but to fill the vacancies created by the retirement of employees on attaining the age of superannuation during the previous 10 years and another 30,000 posts required following creation of 23 new district, 28 new … [Read more...] about Krishnaiah questions govt. sincerity in filling vacancies

Mamallapuram: This historical temple town, about an hour-and half drive from Chennai, has come under a multi-layer security cover, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping reaching here on Friday for a two-day informal summit. Labourers continued to toil in the scorching heat to complete the final touches on Thursday, even as shopkeepers and traders in the coastal town downed shutters and vehicular traffic thinned out ahead of the visit. There is a fresh layer of paint on every wall along the well-swept roads leading to the summit venue, with new grills and decorative pieces at crucial points like the Shore Temple and Five Rathas, where the leaders are expected to meet on Friday. Shop owners were given no official orders to shut their establishments but many chose to take the day off as tourism has taken a beating owing to the summit. According to people aware of the security arrangements, the Tamil Nadu Police will deploy thousands of personnel as part of … [Read more...] about Mamallapuram spruced up for informal summit

        LUCKNOW: A day after Lucknow University law department professors blamed vice-chancellor (VC) SK Shukla for the law department paper leak scandal, Shukla on Sunday accused the professors of leaking the question papers to publishers of ‘guess papers’.“I matched the questions that appeared in the law examination paper and those given in the ‘guess papers’ before the dean of law department CP Singh. To my surprise almost all the questions matched,” said Shukla.“This proves that the professors of law department leaked the question paper to the publishers of ‘guess papers’ or they prepared the question paper on the basis of the ‘guess paper’,” he added.The allegation came after law professors held a press conference on Saturday and claimed that Shukla introduced Richa Mishra -- the student in the centre of the controversy -- and asked them to ‘help’ her.Richa Mishra, who is … [Read more...] about LU PAPER LEAK Now, VC blames law profs for the scandal

Iqbal Mirchi is back in the news over a case of money-laundering. A look at the late 1980s gangster’s high-rolling life in London A murky real estate deal clinched in late 1980s has resurrected the ghost of Iqbal Mirchi, six years after his death in August 2013. Much like Mirchi, who fled India to make a home in London, his associates and friends, too, managed to duck the wrath of investigating agencies while he was alive. But that’s changed with the filing of the 12,000 page chargesheet against 16 people including the first wife and sons of Iqbal Mirchi and Dheeraj Wadhawan of Dewan Housing Finance Capital (DHFL). The Enforcement Directorate (ED), had also questioned NCP leader Praful Patel, and businessman Raj Kundra earlier. The case has revived the somewhat lapsed but potent imagination in the public domain, of the close links between politics, Bollywood and the underworld. That it takes a long dead and- gone gangster like Mirchi to revive this, is testament to the … [Read more...] about A look at late 1980s gangster Iqbal Mirchi’s high-rolling life in London