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Shantanu Guha Ray

Sterlite closure hinders Atmanirbhar Bharat, crushes livelihoods

NEW DELHI: The Sterlite copper plant has been closed since May 2018, the raging crisis between the company, owned by Vedanta—one of the world’s...

Do you have a Godfather in Bollywood?

Sushant Singh Rajput’s death has opened a Pandora’s box about ‘vicious cartels’ operating in Bollywood. The late actor, who called himself an outsider, wanted...

Sushant Rajput’s final journey to the galaxy

New Delhi: Hours before he hanged himself at his Bandra home, Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput called his former girlfriend Rhea Chakravarty, his sister...

Will the series resuscitate Tarun Tejpal’s long-forgotten novel?

Brutally realistic, Paatal Lok—aka The Story of My Assassins—is set in Delhi, home to India’s biggest political, financial and media manipulations. A city of...

Post Amphan, Bengal stares at mammoth loss

New Delhi: The Rs 1,000 crore aid pledged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi could be the proverbial drop in the ocean for cyclone-ravaged Bengal,...

‘Bois Locker Room is tip of the iceberg’

New Delhi: There is a breathless hush in the national capital and neighbouring Gurugram over the Bois Locker Room chat on Instagram where teenagers...

Whistleblowers allege massive Covid-19 cover-up in Bengal

NEW DELHI: Every night, special teams of cops and paramedics dispose of bodies of Covid-19 victims across Bengal, their act triggering tremendous protests on social...

MCX: Agencies hunt for Black Swan Day culprits

New Delhi: The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has initiated a probe into the recent crude price settlement by Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) that has...

Bengal sitting on a coronavirus time bomb 

Doctors complain that state authorities’ approval is needed for each Covid-19 test, and is regularly refused. As a result, patients suspected to be suffering...

Fraudsters sell fake telecom towers to the gullible

Bulk of the agents are making telephonic calls and seeking electronic transfer of cash. New Delhi: A bizarre scandal in the world’s second largest telecom...

Big crisis brewing in Chhattisgarh mines

New Delhi: Serious differences have cropped up between villagers, NGOs and companies mining iron ore and coal in Chhattisgarh, triggering closure of operations. Reports reaching...

Peel off black paint, let moonlight emerge

Market cognoscenti felt it was a bold move by 63 Moons to take the battle right into the heart of the rivals’ den and...

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code not working: Banks

NEW DELHI: Senior officials of the Reserve Bank of India have expressed serious apprehension over the way banks are taking huge haircuts while settling...

Sanjeev Chawla hints to cops he is just the front for kingpin bookie

New Delhi: Is London-based bookie Sanjeev Chawla the kingpin of all the fixing that takes place in cricket matches across the world, or is...

I am sin, you are the sinner: Life and death of a cabaret dancer

NEW DELHI: Flowers and condolence cards continue to fill up a small apartment near Kolkata, home to the city’s most popular cabaret dancer who...

Book with exclusive partition details challenges conventional narratives

Jinnah’s dream of having a separate country for Muslims seemed to be creating a situation where, if people like Patel had not intervened, Muslims...

Markets silent on SEBI clean chit to NSE

New Delhi: They are calling it SEBI’s desktop investigation. This is the high-powered market regulator’s decision to grant clean chits to a number of...

Goa mining closure causes misery

New Delhi: Miners in Goa, out of job and cash for nearly two years, are on the verge of a total collapse and heading...

In Belgium: Antwerp’s Indian heart glitters like a diamond

The following has been excerpted from Shantanu Guha Ray’s book, The Diamond Trail: How India Rose to Global Domination on the international diamond trade,...

Indian gold rush in Africa leads to record inflows

Detailed investigation by a Canadian think tank shows that India, which imports one third of the world’s gold supply, is picking up the metal...

Do you breed Goddesses at Solcum Magna?

New Delhi: Last year, two videos that went viral across India involved two women athletes. Swapna Barman, heptathlete, and Hima Das, a runner. Barman’s...

SEBI wakes up to mess in Karvy, sleeps on Co-location scam

SEBI wants MCX to do an internal investigation to probe what led to the data theft. In other words, those involved will be investigated...

ICC worried as Indian bookies ‘spot-fix’ world cricket

ICC Anti-Corruption Unit chief Alex Marshall is on record saying Indian bookies are openly operating across the globe. ‘In most parts of the world...

Umpires don’t talk, use signals

Taufel wants cricketers to show restraint and not get hyper-active both on and off the field. He has explained lessons of his life and...

Banks have a warning message for depositors

Finance Ministry insiders claim the sudden crisis enveloping the PMCB depositors has forced the government to put the state-owned banks, cooperative banks and also...

How much cash did you park with SRS?

NEW DELHI :Every fortnight, scores of harassed and worried people from Delhi and Haryana gather at a common spot to discuss ways to recover...

How Bansals aimed for the sun

The book talks about walking the extra mile, maybe a hundred miles, because e-business is not all about valuations and revenue model.     New Delhi: If...

Get a tinge of digital in your soul

The book should have been written in the 1980s, and read by India’s risk-averse bureaucrats who could have then helped India blend man and...

Husband framed in 2002 Gujarat riots, widow seeks compensation

AHMEDABAD: The widow of a person falsely implicated in the Naroda Patiya riots that killed 97 people has decided to sue the Gujarat government...

After living high off bank loans, Nirav now a jailbird

The diamond merchant neatly executed plans to defraud Punjab National Bank for over Rs 14,000 crore.   NEW DELHI: Around the time breaking headlines were increasing...

A hint of saffron: How Ganguly took a giant leap forward

NEW DELHI: Saurav Ganguly’s ascendancy as the president of the world’s richest cricket board has happened with a tinge of politics but the country’s...

Call centres prey on some Indians’ male child fixation

NEW DELHI: The latest scandal—now on the radar of Western crime busters—that triggered breaking headlines emerged from the heart of Delhi where young graduates,...

Washington puts Gupta brothers on the burner

After financial embezzlement in South Africa, the Gupta Brothers are now seeking new pastures for investments.     New Delhi: The Dubai-based Gupta brothers, originally from Shaharanpur...

Kirloskars ‘land’ in trouble in the South

New Delhi: A peculiar problem has hit the Kirloskar family in South India, triggering a huge controversy within the group. The Mysore Kirloskar factory will...

Rajeev Kumar hiding in plain sight from CBI

New Delhi: There’s an interesting joke in Kolkata revolving around the former city police commissioner, Rajeev Kumar, currently on the run from the Central...

State cops guard IPS Rajeev Kumar from Central cops

New Delhi: Former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, now involved in a strange cat and mouse game with the Central Bureau of Investigation, could be...

SEBI hesitates to move against big NSEL defaulter brokers

New Delhi: Why has the investigation into a mega scam involving a huge sum of money gone around in circles rather than reach a...

Persecuted Bengal cop may land Mamata in embarrassing mess

NEW DELHI: The curious case of a retired IPS officer and her numerous slugfests with the Bengal government has taken a totally bizarre turn...

Akhilesh wary of CBI sandstorm against Chandrakala IAS

NOIDA, UTTAR PRADESH: India’s sand mafia is wounded, but not fatally. And fingers are being pointed at Bhukya Chandrakala, a 38-year-old bureaucrat, who was...

Law starts catching up with influential Mumbai brokers

SEBI has issued notices to top brokerage firms allegedly involved in NSEL scam.   NEW DELHI: Gloom hangs over the Mumbai homes of several well-connected stockbrokers....

Who is in charge of coal in India?

In a recent meeting with Coal Minister Piyush Goyal, representatives of some coal and steel companies came up with a strange demand: they wanted...

Lifestyle, environment among leading risks for cancer

Be careful of what you drink and eat, oncologists across India are repeatedly telling cancer patients, arguing why lifestyle and environment are among the...

Bank fraud in Bengal: Kolkata’s Shibaji now cashless, powerless

Every time cops in Kolkata came to arrest Shibaji Panja, he calmly walked into the waiting Black Maria, made a few headlines and then...

Mamata ‘targets’ ex-IPS officer who can spill TMC’s ‘inside secrets’

A cop drama with fantasy elements is playing out in Bengal where a no-nonsense officer, once hailed as the daughter of Chief Minister Mamata...

Hounding by Lalu did not stop Tiwary from probing fodder scam

Almost three decades ago, a frail bureaucrat in Patna told Lalu Prasad Yadav, then the Chief Minister of Bihar, that he would be probed...

She was Nita to the world, Supriya to herself

On a balmy afternoon last year, I walked into the spacious home of Supriya Choudhury with little hope that the retired actress, now in...

Bagful of promises, not even a fistful of cash at Bengal business summit

Close to the inaugural function of the Bengal Business Summit in Kolkata, members of the ruling Trinamool Congress went into a huddle to discuss...

Bagful of promises, not even a fistful of cash at Bengal business summit

Close to the inaugural function of the Bengal Business Summit in Kolkata, members of the ruling Trinamool Congress went into a huddle to discuss...

Bagful of promises, not even a fistful of cash at Bengal business summit

Close to the inaugural function of the Bengal Business Summit in Kolkata, members of the ruling Trinamool Congress went into a huddle to discuss...

Why Income Tax officers are zeroing in on Ajay Shah

Exactly two days after the scam-hit National Stock Exchange submitted a forensic audit report from Ernst & Young and Indian School of Business to...

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