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Topic: ponzi scam

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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Beneath the ice — what a lost US base from the Cold War reveals about Greenland

A failed US plan to hide missiles under the ice now provides vital clues for understanding Greenland’s future and climate risks.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.