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13 min ago | India Gazette

Chit-fund scam Sudipta Sen faces protests outside court sent to police remand

Baruipur, West Bengal: Sudipta Sen, chairman of Saradha Group which allegedly cheated thousands of poor investors in West Bengal and other states, was today remanded in 10 days police custody amid noisy protests outside the court.Mr Sen was produced before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Debdeep Manna after being brought from Dum Dum jail in ... (more)

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4 hrs ago | The Telegraph

Bloc scuffle at Biman meet venue

Balurghat, May 19: Workers loyal to two factions of the Forward Bloc clashed at Gangarampur yesterday when a Left Front meeting attended by chairman Biman Bose was going on to discuss the coming panchayat polls.

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Sun May 19, 2013

The Telegraph

SC clears air on state tenancy law

New Delhi, May 18: A landlord's needs should be considered while deciding an eviction plea and lodgers could be told to move out if the owner needed the entire premises, the Supreme Court has said clearing the air on a Bengal tenancy law.

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India Talkies

SEBI warns against investing in two Bengal 'ponzi' firms - Indiatalkies.com

Kolkata, May 19: Continuing the heat on ponzi firms in the wake of the Saradha scam, the Securities and Exchange Board of India Sunday issued caution advertisements against two West Bengal based companies which have been raising funds under the collective investment schemes .

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Newkerala.com

Four ISI linkmen arrested from Darjeeling

Siliguri , May 19 : Four suspected linkmen of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency were arrested in West Bengal's Darjeeling district Sunday, police said.

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The Telegraph

Prosenjit in Bengal corner at Cannes

Cannes, May 18: As rain lashed Cannes today, it was Bengal's day at the film festival with the state's leading male actor, Prosenjit, putting in an appearance at the Confederation of Indian Industry booth.

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The Telegraph

Saradha boss out of police custody

Calcutta, May 18: Sudipta Sen was sent to judicial custody today after Bidhannagar police, probing the Saradha default crisis, did not seek extension of his remand.

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TwinCities

Ruben Rosario: Adoption red tape didn't stick till years later

I have two folders in my work computer. One is titled "lack of common sense." The other is "your government at work." There's no question that the stories sent to the folders will overlap quite often, considering the tale I'm about to tell you.

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Sat May 18, 2013

The Telegraph

No-trust dare to Trinamul

Siliguri, May 17: The Congress today challenged Trinamul to move a no-trust motion against Siliguri municipal corporation mayor Gangotri Datta if it was not satisfied with her work rather than preventing her from discharging her duties.

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The Indian Express

Mount Everest conquered by West Bengal's Chanda Gayen

Chanda, a resident of Howrah in her mid 30s, is the third woman from the state to climb the 8,848 mt Mount Everest peak.

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The Telegraph

Buffalo boy's Calcutta crush

Clinton S. Brown pens a passionate piece on the place that made him feel at home for three years My family and I board a plane this morning to take us back to America.

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The Telegraph

Career fair

Siliguri, May 17: Several universities ad colleges from across the country will set up stalls at career fairs that will be organised in Gangtok, Darjeeling and Siliguri by SAPE Events and Media Private Limited in association with The Telegraph Careergraph next week.

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The Telegraph

Medical retest after language goof-up

The Central Board of Secondary Education will conduct a retest of the all-India medical entrance exam on May 26 for about 100 candidates of a centre in Calcutta who were furnished question papers in English despite opting for Bengali.

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The Telegraph

State squats on impasse

The Mamata Banerjee government has denied responsibility for getting work started on a stretch of the Barasat-airport Metro Railway link from where squatters enjoying political patronage have refused to move.

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Fri May 17, 2013

The Telegraph

Gas duo keen on Haldia Petro

ONGC chairman Sudhir Vasudeva, Kallol Datta, president of Bengal Chamber of Commerce, and Bengal industries minister Partha Chatterjee in Calcutta on Friday.

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The Peninsula

Bengal notifies poll schedule

Kolkata: The West Bengal government yesterday issued a notification proposing three-phase panchayat polls on July 2, July 6 and July 10.

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The Telegraph

Student dead in room

A student of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College was found dead in his rented room on Thursday morning in Khardah.

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The Telegraph

Scientist, wife get life term for murder

A Barasat court on Thursday sentenced a former scientist of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre , Prabir Dasgupta, and wife Ileena to rigorous life imprisonment for the murder of her sister in 2005.

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Newkerala.com

India urged to protect Bangladesh war crimes witness

New York, May 16, : Authorities in India and Bangladesh should take all necessary steps to protect Shukhoranjan Bali, a long-missing witness in the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.

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Newkerala.com

Couple involved in ponzi Co in Assam held from Bengal

Barasat, May 15 : A CID team of Assam Police, with the help of its counterpart in West Bengal, arrested the managing director and his wife of an Assam-based ponzi company from his hideout here in North 24 Parganas last night.

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