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TopicPonzi scam

Topic: ponzi scam

Cybercrime saw 24% spike in 2025. Indians lost Rs 22,495 crore, mainly in investment scams

The data signals a worrying trend of cybercrime widening in scale, even though enforcement agencies manage to contain financial damage through real-time intervention.

Inside VueNow, now under ED lens: Lavish offices, MoU with UP govt & Rs 3,500 crore ‘ponzi scheme’

CEO Sukhvinder Kharour & wife Dimple were arrested by ED at Delhi airport last week. In 2023, UP govt had lauded Kharour for ‘reposing faith in state policies' at investors’ summit.

Punjab govt to ‘auction’ Pearl Group properties to refund victims of alleged Rs 57,000 cr ponzi scam

Punjab-based Pearl Group stands accused of duping 6 crore investors to the tune of Rs 57,000 crore on pretext of returns from development of agricultural land.

Finance Ministry working to clamp down ‘like never before’ on bogus financial apps, says Sitharaman

The FM urges people to be cautious when following the advice of ‘finfluencers’ or investing through financial apps without doing due diligence, likening these to Ponzi schemes.

8 Bengal IPS officers under CBI probe in Ponzi & cattle smuggling cases, TMC says don’t care

Two of the IPS officers have moved Calcutta HC against CBI summons served on them in a cattle smuggling case. BJP terms CBI action the beginning of the ‘fight for justice’.

Karnataka IAS officer found hanging ‘was under lens for Rs 1.5 crore bribe in IMA Ponzi scam’

Police are investigating the unnatural death of IAS officer B.M. Vijay Shankar, who was found hanging at his Bengaluru residence Tuesday evening.

Why Indians don’t need school WhatsApp groups

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Saradha Ponzi scheme: The scam behind Mamata’s dharna against CBI

The Saradha scam, at the heart of the CBI-Mamata standoff, first shook the state in 2013 dragging politicians, mostly from the Trinamool Congress, into the case.

Dozen apartments, 5-star events, murky web of firms — story behind Bengali editor’s arrest

Suman Chattopadhyay, who was editor of Ei Samay, a Times Group newspaper, at the time of his arrest on 20 December, is accused in a Rs 3,000-cr Ponzi con.

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What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.