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New Delhi, 20 August: A month after New Delhi Post’s exposé on Dream11, the government has moved swiftly to rein in India’s booming but largely unregulated gaming sector. On Wednesday, the government passed the “Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025” — the toughest measure yet against real-money gaming while carving out space for e-sports and skill-based platforms. The Union cabinet approved the Bill on Tuesday. The legislation proposes a blanket ban on online real-money gaming — apps and platforms where users wager cash for returns. Offenders could face up to three years in jail and fines of ₹1…

Not schools. Not parents. Not even peers. It’s Reels, Shorts, and whatever comes after. Are we okay with that? When did the babysitter stop being the neighbour’s daughter and start being a server farm in California? Indian parents once worried about playground gossip, Bollywood songs, or cable television. Today, the real “playground” is virtual. It scrolls endlessly in 15-second bursts—platforms where algorithms decide what children see, who they imitate, and even what they dream of becoming. Childhood is no longer unfolding in parks or classrooms. Increasingly, it is being outsourced to machine-learning models built not for wisdom or values, but…

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a high-profile summit on a military base in Alaska, their first face-to-face encounter since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The meeting, steeped in symbolism and spectacle, was billed as an attempt to explore pathways to peace, but ended without concrete agreements. Instead, it underscored the gulf between diplomatic theatre and substantive progress, leaving allies sceptical and Ukraine anxious about what the optics might mean for the ongoing war. Here are 10 Takeaways from the Trump-Putin meeting.

Bengaluru, 2 August: In a searing judgment delivered on Thursday, a special court in Bengaluru described former MP Prajwal Revanna as “a predator cloaked in privilege and power”, holding him guilty of rape, intimidation, and criminal misconduct under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Information Technology Act. “The accused weaponised his position, misused trust, and repeatedly violated the bodily integrity and dignity of the survivor,” the court observed. “His acts were not of [a] momentary lapse, but of a sustained and premeditated nature. This was a man who believed the law would never reach him.” The…

In July 2025, Jasprit Bumrah walked out to bowl in the third Test against England with the weight of an entire team—and format—on his back. India’s fast-bowling cupboard had thinned. The series was hanging in the balance. And once again, it was Bumrah, not the pitch or the conditions, who seemed to be the only variable England truly feared. He bowled a probing spell. Then another. Then quietly disappeared from the attack for hours. Not out injured, but not quite fit. His workload had to be “managed”, the team said. His body, once an unrelenting machine of angular mayhem, is…

When New Delhi Post broke the investigation exposing Dream11’s money laundering round-tripping and financial opacity, the reaction was inevitable. Just days later of our revelation, the Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, announced that the state would press the Central Government and Ministry of Electronics & IT to enact a ban on real money online gaming citing addiction, fraud, and now, alleged links to illicit financial flows. Fadnavis publicly called online gaming “a new‑age addiction” and highlighted 97 such cases, including raids on illegal operations across Maharashtra, while urging immediate amendments to relevant legislation. Meanwhile, at the govt level, the Ministry…

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Two deceased war veterans were named as alleged co-conspirators in a recent submission by a company in the Adani Group in a court in Australia. The somewhat bizarre filing was part of a legal battle that has been going on now for more than four and a half years between the group’s mining company on the one hand and an environmental activist, Benjamin Pennings, on the other. The latest court filing indicates the extent to which the wealthy Adani Group will go against an individual, Pennings, who, together with many others, has been opposing the establishment of…

Abhinav Mehrotra and Amit Upadhyay The historical tensions between Israel and Iran have once again ignited global concerns, pushing the United States deeper into a regional war that has destabilized West Asia. As Israel and Iran trade threats and retaliatory strikes, the USA’s recent direct military action against Iranian assets has turned an already dangerous conflict into a confrontation. Despite claims of a ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump, hostilities between Israel and Iran persist. Following the US precision strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, using bunker-busting bombs and cruise missiles, Iran retaliated with a symbolic…

By New Delhi Post A recent study has revealed that many chemotherapy drugs, used for cancer treatment worldwide, have failed quality tests and identified as ‘poor quality’, endangering the lives of patients. The drugs include numerous common cancers such as breast, ovarian and leukemia. Many Indian companies have also found supplying ‘sub-standard’ drugs and are now under fresh scrutiny. “Vital chemotherapy drugs used around the world have failed quality tests, leaving cancer patients in more than 100 countries at risk of ineffective treatments and potentially fatal side effects,” reveals the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), UK. “Sixteen of the 17…

By Our Correspondent, New Delhi: India on Thursday strongly rebuffed the double standards of China and Pakistan by refusing to sign a joint statement at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet, as the declaration ignored the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives. In a bizarre move, the statement, however, mentioned Balochistan. A defence ministry source said, “Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who is now attending the SCO meet at China’s Qingdao, has refused to sign a joint statement as it dilutes India’s stance on terrorism. India has expressed strong displeasure at the tone and tenor of the statement.”…