NEW DELHI: India’s new online gaming framework has tightened oversight of real-money gaming, placing banks at the centre of enforcement. User protection provisions, including “age verification or age-restriction mechanisms”, form a core part of the rules.The Online Gaming Authority of India will act as the central regulator.Under the Online Gaming Promotion and Regulation Rules, 2026,…
NEW DELHI: NIA on Wednesday pressed for enhancement of jailed Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik’s life sentence to a death penalty in a terrorist funding case, contending before Delhi HC that naming senior politicians and bureaucrats did not absolve him or dilute his links with terrorists such as Lashkar-e-Taiba cofounder Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen chief…
After five weeks of intense campaigning by four contending sides in Tamil Nadu, one question remains: will the disruptor help the incumbent, the opposition or himself? Conventional analyses still give the M K Stalin-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) an edge over Edappadi K Palaniswami’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA), but the vote share of Vijay’s TVK…
Increasing screen time and social media use significantly raise the risk of eating disorders among teens. Parents often blame junk food, sugary snacks, or poor eating habits when children develop unhealthy relationships with food. But new research suggests another powerful influence is hiding in plain sight: Social media.A study by Turkish researchers Gamze Yurtdas Depboylu,…
When the first vote is cast at 7 am today to decide who will be governing Bengal for the next five years, there will be an elephant in the polling booth: SIR, or the Special Intensive Revision of the voters’ roll.More than 3.6 crore voters across 152 constituencies will be exercising their franchise in the…
NEW DELHI: The shipping ministry on Wednesday dismissed online reports alleging that the captain of Indian-flagged ship, Sanmar Herald, paid cash or cryptocurrency to Iran to secure safe passagethrough Strait of Hormuz, calling it “fake news”. In an official statement, Sanmar Shipping Ltd called the reports “completely false”.Sanmar Herald was one of two Indian vessels…
NEW DELHI: ED Wednesday said it has filed a chargesheet before a PMLA court in Delhi against UK resident Sachin Dev Duggal, chairman of Swiss company nHoldings SA, alleging that Videocon Industries Ltd of V N Dhoot siphoned off over Rs 35 crore to the Swiss firm before routing the money back to Indian tech…
NEW DELHI: The discharge of four accused in the 2006 Malegaon case is a “tight slap” on the Congress leadership’s face, BJP said Wednesday, asserting this has again vindicated its stand that the opposition party during its govt invented terms like “Hindu terror” and “saffron terrorism” to defame Hindus due to its appeasement politics.At a…
NEW DELHI: A nine-judge Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant on Wednesday said that it would be difficult for the judiciary to bring in social reforms, and added that governments were better equipped to enact laws in response to genuine demands from people.This remark came when senior advocate Gopal Subramanium told the bench…
NEW DELHI: India will never bow to any form of terror, and the heinous designs of terrorists will never succeed, PM Modi posted on X on the first anniversary of the Pahalgam terror attack on Wednesday. The United States and Israel, among several countries, also honoured the memory of the victims, expressing solidarity with India…