-The Times of India KOLKATA: It's not only Cobrapost that seems to be stinging public sector Banks. State-owned Banks have come under fire and are accused of being hand-in-glove with willful defaulters like Ponzi kingpin Sudipta Sen. In a 25-page statement that the CBI deems a confession, Sen has detailed how he acquired Global Automobiles, a company with a bank debt of Rs 186 crore. Formed in 2005, the company's owner Shantanu...

-The Hindu Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor K.C. Chakrabarty, on Monday, refuted money laundering charges levelled against various Banks, and said that all exposures by Cobrapost.com were connected to know-your-customer (KYC) norms. "We are seeing how the Banks are following up on the KYC norms. There are certain differences in the manner of reporting of KYC norms in each bank...Need to strengthen KYC guidelines," he said. In March this year,...

-Cobrapost.com Part 1 of Operation Red Spider was just the tip of the iceberg! Cobrapost's Continuing Shocking Expose: Twenty-Three Major Indian Banks, Both Public and Private, and Insurance Companies, are Running a Nation-Wide Money Laundering Racket, Blatantly Violating the Laws of the Land. And the culprits being exposed this time are: Life Insurance Corporation, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, Indian Bank, IDBI Bank, Yes Bank, Federal Bank,...

-Frontline   But in Modi's Gujarat the difference between development and darkness is all too visible to those who care to see. NARENDRA MODI may have won three consecutive elections and ruled Gujarat for more than a decade after he was posted there almost as a night watchman, to borrow a cricketing expression. He may have mobilised a massive fan following that is shouting to catapult him into the Prime Minister's post,...

-Economic and Political Weekly The Saradha group's collapse has possibly bankrupted lakhs of small investors robbing them of their life svaings, and has rendered thousands of its agents jobless. The scam highlights the failure of the government and its regulatory agencies to reign in the mushrooming chit fund companies in West Bengal. It also brings under the scanner the Trinamool Congress' proximity with the tainted group. In the wake of the...