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NEW DELHI: In its illegal online betting case against 1xBet, ED has attached assets worth Rs 8 crore of cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Robin Uthhapa and actors Urvashi Rautela, Sonu Sood, Mimi Chakraborty, Ankush Hazra and Neha Sharma, taking the total attachments so far in the case to Rs 19 crore.Earlier on Oct 6, the…

Former US President Barack Obama’s annual list of favourite films, music and books has a way of turning personal taste into global buzz. When Prateek Kuhad’s cold/mess featured on his 2019 playlist, it made the singer hot property overnight. This year, Obama’s reading list has done something rarer still: it has brought together two generations…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court said on Friday that the right to free speech is not unfettered and denied anticipatory bail to a Bengaluru-based 24-year-old chartered accountancy student, who, on his parody account ‘Jawaharlal Nehru Satire’ on X, had posted about the PM and his mother. The court said the student can approach Gujarat HC for…

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Friday put traditional medicine at the centre of global health conversation, flagging launch of Traditional Medicine Global Library (TMGL) as a shared international platform to anchor ayurveda, yoga & other ancient systems in research, policy and evidence-based care.Addressing the closing ceremony of the Second WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine…

NEW DELHI: A man asking his wife to maintain an Excel sheet for all the household expenses cannot be termed as cruelty to initiate criminal proceedings, Supreme Court on Friday said while quashing an FIR registered by the wife against her husband. The court said that it maybe a reflection of Indian society where men…

Artem Oganov, Chairman of the VYZOV Prize Scientific Committee The VYZOV Prize has expanded its international footprint in 2025, drawing applications from researchers across 40 countries and reinforcing its evolution from a national award into a global scientific honour.The prize, which recognises high-technology research with potential for practical application within the next decade, received 632…

NEW DELHI: The government has told Parliament that there is “no conclusive data” establishing a “direct correlation” between higher air quality index (AQI) levels and lung diseases.In a written response to a Parliament question in Rajya Sabha on Thursday, the Union environment ministry, however, underlined that air pollution is “one of the triggering factors for…

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday moved the Delhi High Court against a trial court order that refused to take cognisance of its prosecution complaint against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald money laundering case.The move follows a Delhi court order passed on Tuesday. The court declined to take cognisance of…

NEW DELHI: Nearly 74 lakh names have been removed from Gujarat’s draft electoral rolls following a large clean-up drive carried out under the Special Intensive Revision exercise. With this, the state’s total number of voters has dropped from the earlier 5.08 crore to 4.34 crore. The Election Commission released the updated draft rolls on Friday.State…

Manikrao Kokate (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Bombay High Court on Friday suspended a two-year sentence to former Maharashtra minister Manikrao Kokate in a case centred around cheating and forgery connected to a government housing scheme. It also granted bail to the NCP leader.However, citing strong preliminary evidence of Kokate’s involvement, the court refused to…