Chanda Kochhar Money Trail-I: En familia Kochhar is biggest beneficiary
When you cut a corner to get to the front of the line, question is what do you do when you get there? What is the event horizon and are you availing pecuniary benefit from…
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Chanda Kochhar Money Trail-II: How credence became victim of truth, byword for fraud
At the very core of the Chanda Kochhar family enterprise or La Familia remain two similar named companies which beg numerous questions. While the construct of NuPower Renewables came into being much later, IANS has…
Chanda Kochhar Money Trail-III: When obfuscation becomes the signature move
What happens when you bring the fox to guard the henhouse? By structuring a convoluted and intricate matrix of entities – three of them actually – to obfuscate and throw the scent off for future…
Chanda Kochhar Money Trail-IV: Ubiquitous Mhatre locked in Kochhar family enterprise
As one goes deeper and deeper into the concentric circle of rot left behind by the Kochhars, the revelations are confounding. La Familia was never of this magnitude and its bedrock couldn’t have been open…
Chanda Kochhar Money Trail-V: Videocon’s Dhoot complicit in Rs 64 cr payout to Kochhar
Twice over the course of the ongoing all-encompassing multi-disciplinary Chanda Kochhar-Videocon Industries probe has chairman Venugopal Dhoot accepted complicity in the dirty deal. Dhoot reported to the CBI vide letter dated 25.4.2018 that “With reference…
Chanda Kochhar Money Trail-VI: A modern tale of deceit
New Delhi, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) It is said that if you dress cronyism as a favour, then you wind up on skid row. Equally, sorrows dont come individually but in battalions. The tale of Chanda…
Chanda Kochhar Money Trail-VII: The mom and pop shop that Kochhar-Advani fam built
The cozy Kochhar-Videocon deal smacks of absolute cronyism, more so because Chanda was on the credit committee, which cleared the loan, instead of maintaining an arm’s length, which makes it even more questionable. What about…
Chanda Kochhar Money Trail-VIII: Dragnet closes in on Chanda & Deepak Kochhar
As the dragnet closes in on the Chanda Kochhar-Deepak Kochhar family enterprise, investigative agencies have found several fresh money trails. One that is extremely perturbing and damaging is the financial statement filed by NuPower Renewables…
Union Minister urged to sanction a special package for Odisha’s Koraput
Bhubaneswar, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday urged Union Tourism Minister G. Kishan Reddy for sanctioning a special package for the development of tourism infrastructure and facilities in Koraput district of…
Cabinet approves free ration distribution till Dec 2023
New Delhi, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major decision, the Union Cabinet on Friday decided to distribute free ration under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) for a period of one year till December 2023….
US House panel investigating Capitol riot releases final report
Washington, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The US House select committee investigating the Capitol riot has released its final report. The 845-page report, released late Thursday night, listed a series of specific findings after 18 months of…
Property taken back from children for not taking care of parents in K’taka
Bengaluru, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) In two separate cases, the Yadgir district administration in Karnataka has ordered retransferment of property to parents from children as the latter failed to take care of the former. The order…
Assam govt decides to quash EWS quota on jobs
Guwahati, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The BJP-led government in Assam has decided to do away with the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota on jobs but the reservation under EWS would continue for admissions in educational institutions,…
Country’s largest waste-to-energy plant to come up in Gurugram
Gurugram, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Haryana Urban Local Bodies (ULB) Minister Dr Kamal Gupta inaugurated the construction work for the country’s largest waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Gurugram on Friday. Waste management concessionaire Ecogreen Energy will set…
TikTok star, 9 others held by Gujarat Police for threatening released on bail
Junagadh, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) A TikTok star from Surat and her friends travelled almost 450 kilometres on Thursday just to threaten a youth who had a war of words with her on a social media…
Killing With Charm: ‘The Serpent’ left behind a trail of blood and bluff
By Kavya Dubey The seasoned French assassin and fraudster Charles Sobhraj is expected to return to his country of citizenship on grounds of health concerns from Nepal prison which housed him since 2003 for the…
Mandaviya reviews preparedness of states against Covid
New Delhi, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) In view of recent Covid surge across many countries, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday virtually reviewed the public health preparedness for management of Covid-19 and Covid-19 vaccination progress…
Punjab descending into state of civil war: Sukhbir Badal
Chandigarh, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday asked Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to resign if he really had the interests of Punjab at heart while asserting AAP was…
Cancer patients in Haryana to get monthly pension of Rs 2,500
Chandigarh, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Patients suffering from stage III and IV of cancer will now start getting a monthly pension of Rs 2,500 in Haryana for which a budgetary provision of Rs 68.42 crore has…
Is Astrology really fraud? Here’s what you need to know!
By Neeraj Dhankher Time and again, numerous attempts have been made to malign the credibility of astrology. One such attempt was made recently when, in a video, a fame-hungry, self-styled influencer described astrology as a…