With the tenure of the Justice Shyamal Sen Commission, set up in 2013, to investigate the Saradha scam, coming to an end today, duped investors of hundreds of money-pooling companies find themselves in a predicament.

The All India Small Depositors and Agent Protection Committee has already placed an appeal with the Calcutta High Court for extension of the Commiss...Read More

KOLKATA: More than five months after it started the Saradha scam inquiry, CBI somewhat hurriedly submitted the first chargesheet in the case on Wednesday, rushing against the 90-day deadline to stop the accused from getting bail.

The "primary" chargesheet names Saradha CEO Sudipta Sen, director Debjani Mukherjee and Saradha media group CEO Kunal Ghosh a...Read More

BHUBANESWAR: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch has arrested Udaya Kumar Dalei, director of Sai Pragati Group, a non-banking financial company (NBFC), from his native village Parjang in Dhenkanal district. Dalei was absconding since quite some time.

Sai Pragati had defrauded hundreds of depositors of several crores of rupees by floating attracti...Read More

Some of you may remember the days when finding a job involved searching through the newspaper or Pennysaver’s “Help Wanted” ads. The ad would often tell you how to apply; a resume sent via fax machine, maybe in-person, through the mail, or sometimes even over the phone. After you found jobs that piqued your interest, you would go to the library (or wherever ther...Read More

A15-year-qualified solicitor tells the Gazette that she would rather ‘poke sharp sticks’ in her eyes than work from home. She would be isolated at home, she explains, with no colleagues to discuss a case with or share a rant. There would be no handy IT guru, either, for when the computer screen goes blank. And anyway, home is where she goes to be at home, not at work....Read More

Working from home doesn't mean sitting around in your pajamas all day and having to struggle to make ends meet.

In fact, some companies will pay their telecommuters six figures to work from the comfort of their own home.

FlexJobs, a subscription job board for people who want to telecommute, put together a list of the highest-paying work from ...Read More

The 2.9m home-based entrepreneurs who trade in Britain are predominantly female, according to a report [PDF] from Enterprise Nation and Direct Line for Business.

Of those surveyed in the report, 64% were women, with the West Midlands boasting the highest concentration of female entrepreneurs at 83%. Young children were part of the picture, however only 28% of fem...Read More

KUALA LUMPUR: Asia Herbal Biotech Sdn Bhd (AHB) has expanded its operation overseas with the opening of its first office, PT Asia Herbal Biotech, in Jakarta.

For a start, the manufacturer of cordyceps-based healthcare products has appointed 2,000 agents to market three products in the country, namely coffee drinks, Cordydaylite and Cordyvitaplus.

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NIGERIA continued its march towards acceptance of online system as an effective business tool of the 21st century with the launch of USA franchise, Paragon MLM, (www.promarketingsystem.net/paragonmlm) an integrated online business tool for Network Marketers whose products are predominantly aloe vera based.
The robust system, which is a standardized operating procedur...Read More

The office isn't what it used to be.

Today, 2.8 million self-employed Americans work from home, while another 3.3 million workers consider their homes their primary workplace, even though many of their employers have corporate offices, according to Global Workplace Analytics, a San Diego-based research firm.

"Nearly half of the workforce...Read More