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Discord is finally bringing some parental supervision to its teen-heavy locker room of a chat service. The free messaging platform—which has long had a reputation as a Wild West for gamers—has grown to 150 million monthly active users since 2015. Two years ago, the company took steps to better police the site for child predators and block minors from seeing porn.

GST) council at its 50th meeting on July 11 decided to levy a 28 per cent GST rate on the full value of gaming , horse racing, and casinos - which comes as a drawback to online gaming companies. GST Council Representatives said that the council decided to make an amendment as these are actionable claims. "Will bring an amendment to GST law to include online gaming and will be taxed at 28 percent on full face value," finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said after the GST Council meeting.

Iga Swiatek to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals on Tuesday, just three months after returning from maternity leave. The world number 76 came through 7-5, 6-7 (5/7), 6-2 despite being a break down in both of the first two sets against the reigning US Open and French Open champion. Svitolina, also a semi-finalist in 2019, will take on Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic for a place in Saturday's championship match.

Himanta Biswa Sarma said that several policemen will lose their jobs till 2026. He said that there are 50,000 policemen in the state, out of which 80 percent are good and 20 percent are not good. “At least 10,000 of police personnel are such which requires checking. Action is taken on four and five of them, the list is long. Due to 80 percent good people in police force we are living peacefully here. No violence and explosions and our condition better than some of our neighbouring states.”Hifzur Rahman, a criminal was shot dead in a police encounter near Assam-Meghalaya border on Monday. He had escaped from Silchar Central Jail on May 11. The encounter took place following intelligence inputs. When the police team tried to arrest Hifzur, he attacked the officers following which the police were forced to open fire in which Hifzur was seriously injured and was sent for treatment at Silchar Medical College and Hospital in Silchar where he succumbed to his injuries. During the wncounter, two policemen also sustained injuries. In 2011, Hifjur was arrested for killing a father-son duo in Karimganj.

The prime ministers of Poland and Japan have held talks on security, Russia’s war on Ukraine and the strengthening of business ties

Lupin on Tuesday said it has received establishment inspection report (EIR) from the US FDA with a voluntary action indicated (VAI) status for its Pithampur Unit-2 facility in Madhya Pradesh. The EIR represents the closure of the inspection, and also paves the way for possible lifting of warning letters on the facility imposed by the US drug regulator. VAI means the facility is generally in compliance, with only minor violations that do not meet the threshold for action.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a 38-member bloc, spanning mostly wealthy nations but also some emerging economies like Mexico and Estonia. There is little evidence the emergence of AI is having a significant impact on jobs so far, but that may be because the revolution is in its early stages, the OECD said. Jobs with the highest risk of being automated make up 27% of the labour force on average in OECD countries, with eastern European countries most exposed, the Paris-based organisation said in its 2023 Employment Outlook.

India is demanding higher standards from small and medium-sized drugmakers, the health minister said on Tuesday, in a bid to improve product quality after Indian-made cough syrups were linked to deaths of children overseas. India's image as the «pharmacy of the world», offering cheaper alternatives to Western products, took a hit following the deaths of at least 89 children in Gambia and Uzbekistan last year after consuming cough syrups made in India.

A showdown is underway between America’s tech giants Facebook and Google and Canada because Ottawa is finally going to force them to pay for copyrighted content produced by Canadian media companies that they have stolen for decades. Bill C-18 is Ottawa’s version of what Australia pulled off in 2021, which has been very successful.

Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT), India’s premier table tennis league, has onboarded Indian Oil as its title sponsor for Season 4 which is scheduled to take place at the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Mahalunge-Balewadi in Pune from July 13 to 30, 2023. UTT is all set to bring back world-class table tennis action to India with the presence of top paddlers from around the world including World No. 18 Quadri Aruna, India’s national TT champion Achanta Sharath Kamal and the top female table tennis player in India (World rank 39) Manika Batra.

GST Council on Tuesday agreed to levy a 28 per cent tax on online gaming, casinos and horse racing and the tax would be levied on full face value. West Bengal finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said the Council has also approved the exemption of GST on import of cancer drug Dinutuximab, and Food for Special Medical Purposes (FSMP) used in the treatment of rare diseases.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Megan Thee Stallion will headline this year’s Global Citizen Festival, as the anti-poverty nonprofit looks to focus attention on increasing inequality for girls and young women around the world

nuclear weapon, they would find the weapons stored in a state of incomplete assembly," Korda said. "They would need to be completed by installing specialised equipment and then unlocking permissive action links, and in order to do that they would need the cooperation of someone from the 12th Directorate" responsible for protecting Russia's nuclear arsenal. The report said, Budanov was the first official to suggest that Wagner fighters came close to acquiring nuclear weapons and further escalating an armed mutiny that has been widely interpreted as the biggest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin's power.  Wagner fighters drove in the direction of Voronezh-45 after peeling away from a larger convoy of heavy weaponry that was advancing along the M4 highway that runs north from Rostov, where the rebellion began.

Sector-wise, buying was seen in telecom, capital goods, consumer durables, and power stocks while selling was visible in metals and banks. Stocks that were in focus on Tuesday include Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders (which was up 10%), Bharat Dynamics (which saw a spike of nearly 14%) and Polycab India (which closed with gains of over 6%). We have collated a list of three stocks that either hit a fresh 52-week high or saw a volume or a price breakout.

Konkona Sen Sharma, fresh from the critical acclaim for her 'Lust Stories 2' segment 'The Mirror' directed by her. 'The Mirror' comes almost seven years after she made her directorial debut 'Death in the Gunj'. And she's in no hurry to direct again. «I have to say that I'm really not a career director in that sense because I really consider myself an actress first. So I don't feel like I have to immediately direct something. I don't mind if a few years pass because the main thing is that I should be excited about the subject,» Konkona told PTI in an interview. Konkona, who has built a reputed filmography in both Hindi and Bengali cinema as a performer, said a lot of hard work goes into directing and she would not like to take on the responsibility just for the sake of it. «I don't know that I'll direct so often. I'm hoping I'll also get some good roles to act in,» she added.

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Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), has reiterated his stance against cryptocurrencies, during his recent speech at the Mansion House in London.

BTC2.0 has surged by a massive 7,000% in the past 24 hours, with the new meme token reaching $0.1478 as it becomes viral and attracts exchange listings.

A lawyer representing two women's civil action against hedge fund founder Crispin Odey has asked the City watchdog to safeguard assets ahead of potential proceedings against him.

Disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has launched an appeal of the judgment in his failed defamation action against The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times, which ruled he is a war criminal, murderer and a bully.

Medical and healthcare innovation precincts in places such as Melbourne’s Parkville and Sydney’s Westmead are at the vanguard of Australia’s world-class research endeavours. But how can a nation of 26 million people compete with global heavy-hitters such as Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Harvard system or Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District?