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Paytm slumps over 8% after RBI cancels banking licence for its payments bank

April 27 (Reuters) – Shares of payment and financial services provider Paytm fell ​as much as 8.4% on Monday, their biggest intraday drop ‌in over three months, after India’s central bank last week cancelled the banking licence of Paytm Payments Bank Limited. The stock later recouped some losses to trade down ​about 3.5%. The Reserve Bank of India’s decision came two years ​after the regulator imposed business curbs over violations, ordering the ⁠bank to stop accepting fresh deposits due to what it ​said at the time was non-compliance with rules, including around customer due ​diligence, use of funds, and technology

Rajya Sabha Chairman accepts merger of 7 AAP MPs with BJP

New Delhi, Apr 27 (PTI) Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan on Monday officially accepted the merger of seven Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs with the BJP, reducing the strength of Arvind Kejriwal’s party in the Upper House to three. After this transition, the BJP’s strength in the Upper House has increased to 113. Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak, Vikramjit Sahney, Swati Maliwal, and Rajinder Gupta are the seven MPs who have merged. The Rajya Sabha website now shows that the seven MPs are part of the BJP list of members. The seven MPs had on Friday

Latest US military strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in eastern Pacific

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2026 (AP) — The latest U.S. military strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed three people Sunday, according to a social media post by U.S. Southern Command. The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has gone on since early September and killed at least 186 people in total. Other strikes have taken place in the Caribbean Sea. The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs. After Sunday’s attack, Southern Command posted a video on X showing a

Paradox of video games: between glorification of violence, emergence of moral conscience

Bordeaux (France), Apr 27 (The Conversation) Since the first violent games of the 1970s, the debate on the impact of video games has been divisive: do they corrupt or educate? Our research shows that the key lies less in the violence itself than in the way that games, through their design and storytelling, evoke emotions in players – between indifference and moral awareness. On February 5, 2026, during an interview, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, expressed the fact that “  [T]he violence that is taking hold in society among the youngest […] is also linked to the fact

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