Dubbing gambling in sports a worse idea, the Congress on Friday rejected the Law Commission's recommendation to legalise betting in sports and said it will turn every shop selling betel leaves into a gambling den.


Legalising gambling worse idea: Congress


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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) busted a foreign exchange racket here and seized foreign and Indian currencies equivalent to over Rs 65 lakh, said an official on Friday.


ED busts foreign exchange racket in Bengaluru


Four persons were arrested on charge of running a fake call centre to dupe people in foreign countries, including the US, police said here on Friday.


Four held for running fake call centre in Gurugram, duping people


A senior functionary of the BJP's Kerala unit has threatened popular Malayalam writer and novelist Paul Zachariah for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "murderer".


BJP 'threatens' Kerala writer for calling Modi 'murderer'


Singer, songwriter and actor Chris Brown was arrested here soon after he wrapped up a concert.


Singer Chris Brown arrested after Florida concert


A coach of the Bandra LTT-Madurai Express got derailed early on Friday in Maharashtra, throwing the intercity services on the busy Mumbai-Pune sector out of gear, an official said.


Madurai Express derails in Pune


A day after stringent observations by the Bombay High Court, a high-level meeting of the civic and railway administrations, besides the IIT-B, on Thursday decided to start detailed audits of all 445 bridges in the Mumbai suburban railway networks area from Friday, an official said here.


BMC, Railways, IIT-B to jointly audit 445 bridges from Friday


As many as 325 crates of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and beer were seized from a Gurugram vend not authorised to sell these, police said on Thursday.


325 crates of liquor, beer seized in Gurugram


The historic Nizam-era structure housing the old Central Bus Station (CBS)collapsed on Thursday, officials said.


Nizam-era hangar collapses in Hyderabad


Actress Rytasha Rathore, popular for starring in the TV show "Badho Bahu", loves doing theatre and considers the stage to be her home.


Stage is my home: Rytasha Rathore


Kerala TV serial actress Surya and her mother and sister have been arrested for printing counterfeit currency at their residence here to make up for the losses they had incurred, police said on Thursday.


Kerala TV actress jailed for printing counterfeit notes


Brazilian Police have raided Dutch multinational Philips' headquarters in Sao Paulo and arrested two officials for suspected fraud in Rio de Janeiro's health system, an official said.


Police raids Philips' Brazil HQ


Dehradun, July 4 (IANS/Mongabay) H.P. Upreti, an ex-serviceman lives in the Shakti Vihar locality of the Srinagar town of Uttarakhand. He vividly recalls the day, five years ago, when one of the worst natural disasters struck his hometown. "The water came rushing in. It was everywhere. Its a scene I will never forget."


Scars still fresh Five years since the Uttarakhand floods


Eleven people were killed when a fire broke out in a firecracker manufacturing unit-cum-warehouse in Telangana's Warangal Rural district on Wednesday, police said.


11 killed in Telangana firecracker unit blaze


Three people were arrested and charged in the alleged kidnapping of "Halloween: Resurrection" actors Daisy McCrackin and Joseph Capone.


Three arrested for kidnapping actress Daisy McCrackin


Rail traffic on the Kalka-Shimla track -- a world heritage site -- was disrupted on Wednesday in Himachal Pradesh owing to landslides following rainfall, an official here said. Nobody was injured.


Landslides hit rail traffic on Kalka-Shimla track


The Indian government has asked WhatsApp to take immediate action to end the menace of spreading messages that impact the country's law and order situation and ensure that the platform is not used for such malafide activities, an official statement said here on Tuesday.


Government warns WhatsApp against misuse of its platform


The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday interrogated Odia film actor-cum-director Sritam Das for his alleged links with chit fund scam in Odisha.


ED quizzes Odia actor Sritam Das over chit fund links


Mumbai was crippled for the second time in less than a month after a section of a foot overbridge (FOB) crashed over the Western Railway tracks at Andheri following Tuesday's heavy rains which left many areas of the city flooded, playing havoc with road and rail traffic.


Once more, Mumbai crippled by bridge crash, heavy rains (Roundup)


The NIA has recovered over Rs 40 lakh cash, scrapped currency and gold in a raid conducted at the residence of a former director of an Imphal-based medical institute as part of a year-old terror funding probe into a banned outfit in Manipur, an official said on Tuesday.


Manipur terror funding case: NIA recovers Rs 40 lakh


Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on three additional felony sex charges, two of which carry the potential of life in prison.

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