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New Jersey gambling regulators have fined DraftKings $100,000 for reporting inaccurate sports betting data to the state

mother of trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar, in a confrontation where she allegedly wielded a gun while confronting local men amidst a land dispute in Pune's Mulshi taluka. Puja Khedkar herself has been embroiled in controversy, accused of misrepresenting her credentials during her UPSC candidacy and facing allegations of misusing official privileges. The video is doing the rounds since the IAS officer was shunted from Pune to Washim after she came under the spotlight when she was transferred from Pune to Washim district before the completion of her training after kicking up controversy with demands such as a separate cabin and staff. The controversy revolves around Puja's father, Dilip Khedkar, a retired IAS officer known for his substantial property holdings, including a 25-acre plot in Mulshi taluka of Pune district. Allegations from local farmers suggest that the Khedkar family may have encroached upon neighboring lands, leading to confrontations captured in the viral video.

Neil Gaiman, one of the shining stars of the literary world, best known for modern-day classics such as ‘Good Omens’, ‘The Sandman’, ‘Coraline’ etc has been charged with sexual assault. Two women had accused the eminent author of rape. Gaiman had denied the allegations, claiming that all their encounters were consensual. He is currently being investigated by the New Zealand police. According to British tabloid Tortoise Media, the allegations span two decades. The first woman, a 23-year-old named Scarlett, claimed that she was assaulted by Gaiman at his residence in Australia in 2022. She was employed as a nanny to his son.

The U.S. government’s auto safety agency is investigating a potential “loss of motive power” in more than 94,000 Jeep Wrangler 4xe vehicles, after receiving complaints for cars outside the scope of an earlier recall involving an engine shutdown conditi...

JMM) executive president Hemant Soren on Thursday after CM Champai Soren resigned from the post. The other leaders invited by the Raj Bhavan include state Congress president Rajesh Thakur and RJD leader Satyanand Bhakta. Champai Soren resigned from the post just five months after taking the oath, setting the ball rolling for Hemant Soren to again take over the role and said that the ruling alliance had chosen Hemant Soren as the leader.

multi-agency search operation is currently in progress to locate two women constables who have been missing from the BSF Academy in Tekanpur, Gwalior, for over a month. The missing constables, Akanksha Nikhar from Jabalpur and Shahana Khatoon from Murshidabad, West Bengal, were trainers at the academy since 2021. As per a TOI report, they disappeared on June 6, 2024. Authorities have alerted BSF units along international borders about their disappearance. The investigation has taken an unexpected turn following the discovery of “suspicious activity” on the constables’ phones. Tracing the phone records revealed that their devices were active in Delhi, Howrah, and Behrampore in West Bengal, near Murshidabad. Investigators are analyzing phone records and CCTV footage from these locations to understand the constables' travel patterns and investigate any potential connections to Shahana’s family in West Bengal. The last confirmed sighting of the constables was at Beacon Hospital in Behrampore on June 7, as verified by CCTV footage. Both their phones have been switched off since their departure from the hospital.

Global software giant Microsoft Corp. will pay $14.4 million in California to settle allegations that it discriminated against employees who took protected leave from work

Engineer Rashid, was elected from Baramulla seat as an independent candidate defeating National Conference leader Omar Abdullah in the recent Lok Sabha polls. He was arrested in a 2017 Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case. Rashid had moved the court seeking interim bail, or custody parole in the alternative, to take oath and perform his parliamentary functions.

Rajasthan police's special operations group (SOG) for allegedly issuing fake and backdated degrees for courses that the private institution did not have accreditation for. SOG is examining all 43,409 degrees issued since the university's inception in 2013, reported ToI. As per the report, the university under scrunity issued backdated degrees for BEd and BPEd (physical education) programmes before receiving accreditation and awarded MSc agriculture degrees without proper authorisation, said SOG sources to ToI. In the case of issuing fake desgrees, a probe began six days after the arrest of the university's founder-owner, Joginder Singh Dalal, for his alleged role in the scam. SOG's inquiry into paper leaks and malpractices in college entrance and govt exams led to Dalal.

TMC MP Mahua Moitra for her «derogatory» remark on NCW chief Rekha Sharma, the Delhi Police on Monday sought from social media company X details of the lawmaker's now-deleted comment. Moitra was booked under Section 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita that deals with a word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of a woman. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader commented on a video posted on X that showed Sharma arriving at the site of a stampede in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras on July 4. Moitra later deleted the post, which referred to a man holding an umbrella and walking behind the National Commission for Women (NCW) chief. An official source said the Delhi Police had written to X and added a response from the social media company was still awaited.

Hawaii islands is known for its picturesque beaches and various other tourist monuments. Like the other states of the US, it has its own share of challenges and one such issue is that of drugs. It has been reported by USA Today that Mexican cartels are wreaking havoc in this peaceful place. There are two dominant cartels which are Sinaloa and its rival which is known as the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion who run the drug pipelines all the way from California and Nevada to Oahu. The government has been aware of this and is trying to tackle the issue.

Delta Flight 604 catches fire after landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday, May 6. (Credit: Port of Seattle/SEA Airport/LOCAL NEWS X/TMX)

European Union is imposing sharply higher customs duties on electric vehicles imported from China. EVs are the latest flash point in a broader trade dispute over Chinese government subsidies and Beijing's burgeoning exports of green technology to the 27-nation bloc. The higher duties go into effect on Friday, pending a final decision in four month's time. Here are some basic facts about the EU's planned customs duties: What did the European Union do?

Sophisticated overseas criminals are stealing tens of billions of dollars from Americans every year, a crime wave projected to get worse as the U.S. population ages and technology makes it easier to successfully perpetrate fraud

New Treasury rulemaking would expand the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ jurisdiction to review land sales near 56 additional military sites, bringing the overall number to 227

Russia is seeing an increase in the number of crypto bribery cases where corrupt individuals receive payment in tokens such as Bitcoin (BTC), lawyers say.

Opposition BJP demanded a reply from Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on his wife accepting 14 expensive plots in an upscale locality in Mysuru in return for the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) taking over 3 acre 16 guntas of her land in a village on the city outskirts. Opposition leader R Ashoka, who led protests earlier in the day, accused the CM’s family of accepting pricey plots measuring 38,824 sq. ft in Mysuru, and sought to know from the CM if it was not an act of corruption. He also demanded an answer from the CM as to why his close friend, urban development minister Byrathi Suresh did not act on 15 letters written by the Mysuru deputy commissioner recommending cancellation of plots MUDA allotted to beneficiaries on a 50:50 ratio basis. He wondered how these plots came to be allotted without sanctions from the government. The CM, in a post on X, said he did not accept the MUDA plots when he was in power. The previous BJP regime formulated the land compensation scheme on a 50:50 ratio basis and allotted the plot in a lawful manner. What is wrong with this?, he said.

Delhi High Court on Monday reserved the order on a plea by Arvind Kejriwal's close aide Bibhav Kumar seeking direction to declare his arrest by Delhi Police as illegal. The bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna after hearing both sides at length decided to reserve the order. Appearing for Bibhav, Senior Advocate N Hariharan submitted that the FIR was registered after a delay of three days.

Hathras, Aligarh Inspector General (IG) Shalabh Mathur on Thursday confirmed the arrest of six individuals connected to the incident. The arrested individuals, comprising four men and two women, were all members of the organising committee and served as 'Sevadars' during the event. «The death toll stands at 121,» stated IG Shalabh Mathur. He further reported that all the deceased have been identified, and the post-mortem procedures have been completed.

The new criminal laws replace the Indian Penal Code of 1860, the 1973 Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act of 1872, and came into effect last week. Here are the key new provisions:

Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji's remand till July 8. He was arrested by the ED last year in a money laundering case. Principal Sessions Judge S Alli, before whom Senthil Balaji was produced by the prosecution through video-conferencing from the Central Puzhal Prison here, also extended his judicial custody till July 8. When the case came up for hearing on Thursday, both sides completed their arguments on the two petitions filed by Senthil Balaji. He had sought to furnish the missing documents in «Relied Upon Document Nos-16 and 17»-copies of counterfoil challans relating to his account that were collected by the Enforcement Directorate in its investigation, to him. The judge posted to July 8, further hearing on another petition filed by Balaji, which sought to defer the present proceedings and adjourn the case to a later date.