Betting
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Government cracks down on illegal betting, blocks 300 websites and apps: Sources
Technology | Mar 20, 2026, 04:37 PM ISTAs per the reports, in total, the government has blocked around 8,400 suspicious websites and applications so far. And after the implementation of the Online Gaming Act, around 4,900 got removed.
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Lamborghini, Mercedes seized by ED from YouTuber Anurag Dwivedi's Unnao home in betting scam
India | Dec 18, 2025, 08:41 PM ISTED cracks down: Investigations exposed Dwivedi's slick money-laundering web: massive payouts funneled through hawala runners, mule bank accounts, cash handoffs via fixers, and sham deposits into his firms and family accounts- all without a shred of legit business cover.
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Government issued 1,524 directives to block online gambling platforms, informs MoS IT
Technology | Jul 23, 2025, 08:59 PM ISTThe Directorate General of GST Intelligence Headquarters is empowered under the Information Technology Act of 2000 and the IGST Act to instruct intermediaries to block access to unregistered online money gaming platforms.
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21-year-old Karnataka man drinks 5 bottles of neat liquor over Rs 10,000 bet, dies
Karnataka | May 01, 2025, 12:38 PM ISTThe 21-year-old was then rushed to a hospital in Mulbagal in the state’s Kolar district but succumbed during treatment. Karthik who had gotten married a year back, leaves behind his eight-day-old child.
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Centre cautions influencers against endorsing offshore online betting, gambling platforms
Technology | Mar 21, 2024, 06:38 PM ISTThe ministry has emphasized that these advertisements have significant financial and socio-economic implications for consumers, particularly the youth, regarding online betting and gambling.
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FACT CHECK: Sachin Tendulkar exposes deepfake video promoting betting app
Fact Check | Jan 15, 2024, 11:49 PM ISTFact-checking by India TV confirmed the video's falsehood, with visuals traced back to an April 2023 interview. Tendulkar's call to report such instances underlines the challenge of combating misinformation and deepfakes, stressing the need for swift action from social media platforms.
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Amid Mahadev app row, Bhupesh Baghel urges PM Modi to ban illegal business of online betting
chhattisgarh | Dec 02, 2023, 01:07 PM ISTBhupesh Baghel wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to impose a complete ban on the illegal business of online betting and claimed the the owners of such platforms run the business from abroad.
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Mahadev betting app case: ED action continues as searches conducted at production house in Mumbai
India | Oct 07, 2023, 07:41 AM ISTMahadev betting app case: The ED had earlier summoned Bollywood celebs including Ranbir Kapoor, Kapil Sharma, Huma Qureshi and Hina Khan for questioning in connection with its money laundering probe.
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Fake T20 cricket league with bets from Russian bookies busted; 4 arrested
Cricket | Jul 11, 2022, 11:55 PM ISTGujarat police have very proactively hunted down and busted a gang that was conducting a fake T20 cricket tournament in Gujarat to take bets from Russian bookies by live-streaming the matches and arrested four of its members
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Interstate cricket betting racket busted by crime branch, 10 arrested
India | Oct 03, 2021, 05:53 PM ISTAt least 10 persons have been arrested and 10 laptops, 38 mobile phones, 3 LED TVs, etc have been seized.
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4 held for online cricket betting in UP's Kanpur
India | Jul 30, 2021, 11:08 AM ISTAccording to police, the 4 were accepting bets on T20 cricket match between India and Sri Lanka played in Colombo's Premadasa stadium on Thursday.
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5 arrested for alleged involvement in cricket betting in Meerut
News | Oct 06, 2020, 12:51 PM ISTFive people have been arrested from a hotel in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut for their alleged involvement in betting on IPL matches. While speaking to media, Meerut (City) ADSP Akhilesh Narayan Singh said, "Five people including a hotel manager have been arrested from the hotel for their alleged involvement in betting in IPL matches, in Meerut."
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Ex-Ranji player arrested in KPL betting scam
Cricket | Dec 04, 2019, 07:24 PM ISTIn the recently concluded 2019 KPL edition, Shinde was the coach of Belgavi Panthers T20 team, owned by Ali, who was also arrested. He is on bail.
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Day-Night Test: 3 arrested from Eden Gardens for betting during IND-BAN game
Cricket | Nov 24, 2019, 08:08 AM ISTA total of 5 people were arrested with 3 being from inside the Eden Gardens for betting during the Day-Night Test between India and Bangladesh.
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Daniel Sturridge banned for 2 weeks for breaching betting rules
Football | Jul 19, 2019, 12:54 PM ISTDaniel Sturridge was fined 75,000 pounds ($92,000) and banned for six weeks, though four of them are suspended.
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Heads up for BJP in Delhi but Modi magic of 2014 missing, says satta bazaar
May 10, 2019, 01:41 PM ISTAs polling day approaches in Delhi, it is politics before cricket in the satta markets of the capital. There are variables, some unknowns - the stuff that punters love.
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Youth shot dead for opposing betting, drinking in Noida
News | Oct 05, 2018, 08:10 AM ISTYouth shot dead for opposing betting, drinking in Noida
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Allow regulated gambling, betting in cricket, other sports for generating revenue, employment: Law Commission
India | Jul 05, 2018, 11:22 PM ISTIn its report, the Law Commission also said that gambling and betting should be used as a source for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI).
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ACP Manjita Vanzara in burqa raids gambling den, arrests 28 gamblers
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Kanpur shocker: Bankrupt man puts wife at stake in IPL bet, loses her
India | May 28, 2016, 08:19 PM ISTKanpur: An unimaginable instance of betting has come to light in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, where bankruptcy led a man to keep his wife at stake in an IPL bet and later losing her. Residing in