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New Delhi: Railways and Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Thursday that the Online Gaming Bill is about protecting society while encouraging e-sports and online social game creators as engines of innovation. The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, passed by the...

New Delhi: India and Pakistan won't engage in any bilateral sporting clash, but the cricket team will not be stopped from playing the multi-lateral Asia Cup next month, the Sports Ministry said Thursday. The ministry unveiled the new policy with regard to India's international engagements...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday said it was "impossible" that in a continuing marriage a husband or a wife could say they want to be independent of their partner. If anybody wanted to be independent, they ought not enter matrimony, a bench of Justices...

New Delhi: Calling it a recipe for 'insidious decay' of the Constitution, former Law Minister and Rajya Sabha member Kapil Sibal Thursday deprecated the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025, aimed at checking tainted heads of governments from running their administrations from jail. “If they manage...

New Delhi: The GoM of state ministers on GST rate rationalisation Thursday accepted the Centre's proposal to move to a two-slab structure of 5 and 18 per cent. Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and convenor of rate rationalisation GoM Samrat Choudhary said the six-member state ministerial...

New Delhi: Twelve bills were passed by the Lok Sabha and 15 by the Rajya Sabha during the month-long Monsoon session of Parliament, which witnessed repeated disruptions, adjournments and walkouts. Barring discussions on Operation Sindoor in both House, the session has seen little business ever...

New Delhi: Excited after a successful mission to the International Space Station (ISS), Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla Thursday hoped someone would very soon travel to space "from our own capsule, from our rocket, from our soil". Addressing a press conference here, Group Captain Shukla said...

New Delhi: The government Thursday said that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had issued four show-cause notices to Air India over 29 violations. These violations are addressed as per the Enforcement Policy and Procedure Manual of DGCA. A few instances of systematic issues...

New Delhi: The CBI will seek from the Srinagar Special Court the police remand of eight Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel arrested by it for inflicting "brutal and inhuman custodial torture" on a fellow police constable two years ago, officials said. The eight officers who...

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die Thursday with Speaker Om Birla lamenting the conduct of Opposition members during the Monsoon Session. After an earlier adjournment at 11 am, the House met again at 12 noon, in which Birla lamented that in the...