India's growing cases of mouth and throat cancer prompts the government to issue a new ban on the manufacture and sale of all forms of chewing tobacco. Violators will be fined 300,000 rupees and gets imprisoned for up to six months.
The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says it will take at least two years to implement the IOC proposals to change the method of drug testing. He also seeks more funding for the doping watchdog to do its job.
Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is scheduled to be sentenced in June 2016 for the murder of model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, 2013 in his Pretoria home. The 29-year old is best known as the “Blade Runner” for his carbon-prosthetic legs he used to race.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's office decision is delaying a settlement payment of $11 million to thousands of people. Natural gas producers have to pay royalties to leaseholders in Bradford County, but they are deducting huge costs reducing royalty payment to landowners.
