Up Clampdown

Tencent is planning to host a Valorant esports tournament as the FPS game rolls out in China, following a two-year industry crackdown. Talks are in their initial stages and Tencent could push back its timeline from its predicted summer window. A Valorant league should help kickstart competitive online gaming in China after pandemic restrictions and...

Cryptocurrency companies with large operations in China are now moving out of the country and taking their expensive mining computers with them. China's crackdown on mining and trading of cryptocurrencies is forcing them to look elsewhere.

China has stepped up its social policing and introduced new restrictions for under-18 gamers. The rules now say they can’t play for more than three hours a week — an hour each day over the weekend.

Citizenship Act: In large-scale violence that engulfed many parts of Uttar Pradesh during protests against the citizenship law two weeks ago, 21 people died, many others including police personnel were injured and there was large-scale destruction of government and private property, also allegedly by the police personnel who were accused of clampin...

When Sadaf Jafar headed out with hundreds of others last Thursday to join a protest against the contentious new citizenship law, she told her children she would be home that evening. She never made it back.

Internet has been snapped in 21 of 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh after violent protests over the new citizenship law.

The internet shutdown amid increasing protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA has been widened to several other towns in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, after three persons died and many were injured as protests swept at least 10 states on Thursday. The snapping of the internet has led to a communication clampdown in many cities includin...

Sebi) has shared with the government a list of foreign fund houses that are found to have issued the Offshore Derivative Instruments (ODIs) to Indian nationals.

Even as the Congress led UDF government headed by Oommen Chandy won laurels in the initial round of debates over its "bold decision" to shut over 700 liquor bars, questions have surfaced if the cash-strapped state would be able make up the huge revenue loss left by the clampdown on liquor trade.

Subrata Roy, the chief of the Sahara conglomerate, one of India's biggest corporate groups, has said he feels victimised by a chain-reaction of events that began with a political vendetta, followed by regulatory clampdowns by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

China's high-end liquor companies raised prices in a faltering economy and faced a Beijing clampdown on drinking their pricey booze at banquets, yet still managed to turn in strong quarterly profits.

Tencent is planning to host a Valorant esports tournament as the FPS game rolls out in China, following a two-year industry crackdown. Talks are in their initial stages and Tencent could push back its timeline from its predicted summer window. A Valorant league should help kickstart competitive online gaming in China after pandemic restrictions and...

Cryptocurrency companies with large operations in China are now moving out of the country and taking their expensive mining computers with them. China's crackdown on mining and trading of cryptocurrencies is forcing them to look elsewhere.

China has stepped up its social policing and introduced new restrictions for under-18 gamers. The rules now say they can’t play for more than three hours a week — an hour each day over the weekend.

Citizenship Act: In large-scale violence that engulfed many parts of Uttar Pradesh during protests against the citizenship law two weeks ago, 21 people died, many others including police personnel were injured and there was large-scale destruction of government and private property, also allegedly by the police personnel who were accused of clampin...

When Sadaf Jafar headed out with hundreds of others last Thursday to join a protest against the contentious new citizenship law, she told her children she would be home that evening. She never made it back.

Internet has been snapped in 21 of 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh after violent protests over the new citizenship law.

The internet shutdown amid increasing protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA has been widened to several other towns in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, after three persons died and many were injured as protests swept at least 10 states on Thursday. The snapping of the internet has led to a communication clampdown in many cities includin...

Sebi) has shared with the government a list of foreign fund houses that are found to have issued the Offshore Derivative Instruments (ODIs) to Indian nationals.

Even as the Congress led UDF government headed by Oommen Chandy won laurels in the initial round of debates over its "bold decision" to shut over 700 liquor bars, questions have surfaced if the cash-strapped state would be able make up the huge revenue loss left by the clampdown on liquor trade.

Subrata Roy, the chief of the Sahara conglomerate, one of India's biggest corporate groups, has said he feels victimised by a chain-reaction of events that began with a political vendetta, followed by regulatory clampdowns by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

China's high-end liquor companies raised prices in a faltering economy and faced a Beijing clampdown on drinking their pricey booze at banquets, yet still managed to turn in strong quarterly profits.