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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.

India’s Solicitor General has made a statement in the Supreme Court, saying that the Kohinoor diamond, which is now a British possession, is not a stolen treasure but a gift which was given voluntarily. Various organizations in India has been trying to claim the 108-carat gem worth more than $200 million.

India's top IT company Tata Consultancy Services was fined $940 million by a U.S. Federal Court in Wisconsin Friday in a trade secret lawsuit by U.S.-based medical software company Epic Systems. TCS said it would appeal against the verdict in higher courts.