Delhi HC sets aside board's decision denying premature release to 1993 plane hijack convictThe Delhi High Court overturned a decision regarding the premature release of Hari Singh. Singh was convicted for hijacking an Indian Airli...
Priyadarshini Mattoo case: Delhi HC sets aside decision to reject convict's plea for premature releaseThe Delhi High Court overturned the sentence review board's rejection of Santosh Kumar Singh's premature release plea, who was convicted in...
Get the girl numbers back in HaryanaHaryana, once showing promise in improving its sex ratio at birth, has seen a setback with a drop to 910 in 2024. This decline, attributed ...
MeitY defers plans to form gaming self regulator, seeks common groundThis comes even as the sector is facing a crisis with the government’s decision to impose 28% GST on real money gaming companies. Some of t...
Google to provide 'grace period' for existing fantasy sports, rummy apps while SRB implementation takes offLast year, Google Play launched a pilot program enabling distribution of DFS and Rummy apps to users in India. The pilot is set to end on S...
AIGR Foundation to apply for becoming gaming self-regulatorFormer Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag has been named as one of the Directors as part of the application.
Gaming startups team up for two regulatory bodies; to discuss with govt by end of weekOne body being proposed by AIGF members while the other is likely to be formed by EGF-FIFS member cos
Ukraine war's impact on EU banks 'manageable', says watchdog"We are monitoring the entire banking space, looking at first round impact, which seems from all we are seeing manageable," Elke Koenig, ch...
Households are better off than ever but female foeticide continues unabatedThe national census of 2001 and 2011 contained enormously detailed data on sex ratio at birth (SRB) at the district, tehsil and state level...
A secondary market in corporate loansA secondary market for corporate loans would lead to diversification of credit risks, provide market-based credit products for a diversifie...
Sex ratio gets worse with 2nd, 3rd births: StudyA research paper published in the international journal ‘Studies in Family Planning’ showed that SRB generally increased, ranging from 107....
Covid-19 virus may hijack our cells' cholesterol system to spread through body, says studyThe study suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may use the cell's internal cholesterol mechanisms to enhance infection.
Sex ratio at birth up 13 points at 931 in four years, says Smriti IraniA NITI Aayog report in June showed an alarming decline in SRB in 12 out of 21 states.
No data on sex ratio at birth from UP, Bihar, BengalThe reasons given by these states for not supplying the data are lack of computerisation and governance issues.
Sex ratio at birth dips in 17 of 21 large states, Gujarat records 53 points fallAccording to the report, improvement in SRB was witnessed in Punjab, which registered a rise of 19 points, followed by Uttar Pradesh (10 po...
Sex ratio at birth in Haryana rises to 914 girls per 1000 boysAn official spokesperson said that in 2015 the SRB was 871 girls for 1000 boys and in 2016, it was 900 girls for 1000 boys.
Russian heavy equipment maker Uralmash set to enter India's steel & mining sectorIt has decided to form a joint venture with Noida-based SRB International, in what is poised to be the first Indo-Russian venture in manufa...