-The Times of India CHINSURAH/SODEPUR: The body count in the aftermath of the Saradha collapse keeps going up. A director of a micro-finance company was murdered at his home in Hooghly's Chinsurah on Monday even as the father of a chit fund agent hanged himself after being beaten and humiliated by cheated depositors in Sodepur on the northern outskirts of Kolkata. This is the eighth suicide since the Saradha Group meltdown ruined...
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-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,...
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-Live Mint Despite being declared unconstitutional by SC, ‘khaps' continue to hold sway in parallel with the state machinery Rohtak/Bhiwani: Ravinder Gehlawat and his wife Shilpa had been married for less than four months when they were marched out of their village-Dharana in Jhajjar district of Haryana-by men of the local community and warned never to return. Their fate was sealed on 24 April 2009 when the local khap panchayat, which translates...
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-The Hindu The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Rs. 22,507-crore National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) that seeks to address healthcare challenges in towns and cities with focus on urban poor. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Rs. 22,507-crore National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) that seeks to address healthcare challenges in towns and cities with focus on urban poor. The scheme will now be introduced as a sub-mission under the National...
More »CPM targets Bengal finance minister's US visit -Saibal Sen
-The Times of India KOLKATA: Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra is in the CPM's firing line for attending a three-day Banga Sammelan at Las Vegas last year in which Sudipta Sen's Saradha Group was the main sponsor. A few days ago, the CPM had asked the government to reveal who sponsored chief minister Mamata Banerjee's chartered flight from Delhi on April 10. Mitra rejected the insinuations and said the state exchequer...
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