With the tenure of the Justice Shyamal Sen Commission, set up in 2013, to investigate the Saradha scams, 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 Commis...Read More

Kolkata:  The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed the first chargesheet in the multi-crore Saradha Ponzi scam, naming Sardha Group chief Sudipto Sen, company director Debjani Mukherjee and suspended Trinamool Congress parliamentarian Kunal Ghose.

They have been accused of cheating and conspiracy among other charges.
  Four companies of...Read More

To check ponzi menace, the government plans to bring in a tough set of norms to regulate money-circulation and pyramid marketing businesses involving corpus of less than Rs 100 crore wherein those running illicit schemes would face large penalties and imprisonment.

The new norms would include a detailed definition for 'money circulation schemes' to includ...Read More

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday filed the first chargesheet in multi-crore Saradha chit-fund scam. Suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kunal Ghosh, Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen and director Debjani Mukherjee have been named in the chargesheet, say reports.
 
CBI has booked them under sections 120B, 420 and 409 of Indian Penal...Read More

A team from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here on Tuesday searched the studio of a channel which was supposed to be launched by Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya, an eminent painter. Although the channel never went on air, Mr. Bhattacharya had sold the channel to chairman and managing director of the scam-tainted Saradha Group, Sudipta Sen in 2011, allegedly at an inflated price.
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As the tenure of Justice (Retd) Shyamal Sen Commission set up by the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) government to probe complaints against the Saradha Group of Companies and other Ponzi scheme companies is scheduled to end on Wednesday, the Opposition parties slammed the State Government for not extending it. Senior Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI (M) leader Sujan Chakr...Read More

Is remote working no longer working?

Based on recent news stories chronicling major corporations such as Yahoo YHOO +2.29%! ditching their telecommuting policies, the answer is no—not at all.

The remote-working-isn’t-working crowd seemed to gain more steam in August, when a House of Representatives committee launched an investigation ...Read More

(BPT) - About 16 million Americans work from home – a number that Global Workplace Analytics expects will increase by 63 percent over the next five years. In fact, every 12 seconds someone starts a new home-based business in the United States, according to Business for Home. Access to new technology, increased job flexibility and a higher earning potential are just some of ...Read More

The holiday season is fast approaching and marketing professionals will no doubt be gearing up for the big day. Christmas gives industry professionals the chance to be colourful and creative in producing campaigns that will hopefully draw scores of festive consumers. Our recent Retail Connect event can back this up, as four of the seven presentations were focused around Christmas...Read More

Actually, social media is slowly morphing into Digital Media -- an umbrella that covers Social, Mobile, Web, Games, and Apps.

What's important for marketers is that this must now be part of your 360-degree view of the landscape. Digital Media Marketing requires a seamless multi-screen strategy so that your brand DNA is represented no matter where the consumer...Read More