April 2024

Gernika Club, Picasso’s painting and Spain’s flawed reckoning with its traumatic past

“Franco burned Gernika… but Franco, for me, was Spain’s saviour from everything.” Rafael Madariaga is talking about the bombing of the northern Spanish town of Gernika on April 26, 1937, during the country’s Civil War. Carried out by the air forces of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the behest of Spain’s dictator, General Francisco Franco,

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Raj Bhavan returns Bill banning online Rummy to TN govt

The Bill was returned to the House for its ‘consideration once again’ in the wake of certain aspects that have been outlined by Raj Bhavan, official sources told PTI. The Raj Bhavan has returned a Bill banning online Rummy to the Tamil Nadu Assembly for its reconsideration, official sources said here on Wednesday. The Bill

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Tamil Nadu online gambling law: Madras High Court refuses interim injunction

A division bench led by Acting Chief Justice A Raja posted the plea by online gaming companies for further hearing after the court vacations on June 2. The Madras High Court on April 27 refused to grant an interim stay on the operation of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games

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TN Law Regulating Online Games Won’t Apply To Games Of Skill Like Poker & Rummy : Madras High Court

The Madras High Court on Thursday upheld the validity of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Act 2022. The court, however, added that the Act would not be applicable to games like rummy and poker, which were games of skill and will be applicable only against games of chance.

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The football manager with three names, one rape conviction and many unanswered questions

On the Liverpool-to-Manchester railway line at one end of Warrington Rylands’ Gorsey Lane ground, a train whistles past every 10 minutes or so. The other three sides of the pitch are flanked by a retirement home, a pavilion that leads on to a recreation field, and a row of terraced houses. England’s north west boasts

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Kerala Govt. Makes Online Rummy Illegal When Played For Stakes

The Kerala Government has issued a notification making online rummy illegal when played for stakes.Section 14A of the Kerala Gaming Act, 1960, which regulates gambling activities, empowers the Goverment to exempt a game from all or any of the provisions of the Act if they are satisfied that in any game the element of skills

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No Precipitative Action Against Online Gaming Companies For Now; Advocate General Assures Karnataka High Court

Advocate General Prabhuling K Navadgi on Thursday orally assured the court that no precipitative action would be taken against online gaming companies for the time being. The oral statement was made before a single bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit, which is hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Karnataka Police

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