Mar 10, 2017 |

All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) is all set to launch its annual IP event, ?India Gaming Conclave? on March 17 in New Delhi.
The conclave is going to be the first of its kind and promises immense pool of possibilities for the stakeholders associated with the Industry which is at a nascent stage in India.

Mar 6, 2017 | Hindustan Times

India’s top law panel is examining whether betting on sports and gambling in casinos and other places can be legalised.

Though the Law Commission of India is yet to make up its mind, sources said that a draft gambling act is “under serious consideration”.

Mar 6, 2017 | ET Bureau

Listed Chinese gaming company Youzu Interactive is entering the Indian market with plans to launch local Indian casual strategy games in 2017 through its unit set to come up in Pune, its India CEO Anuj Tandon told ET.

Mar 5, 2017 |

Delta Corp Ltd. has been given the shareholder green-light to merge with Gauss Networks, the parent company of poker website Adda52.

Mar 1, 2017 | Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen Luu Van Dat

(Bloomberg) — Vietnam’s revolutionary founder Ho Chi Minh relied on lottery ticket sales to raise money for schools and hospitals during the war years. Now Hanoi’s Communist leaders are looking to casinos, horse betting and modern lottery-ticket machines to do the same.

Feb 25, 2017 | Murari Shetye | TNN

PANAJI: Chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Friday said that the new government should decide whether to renew the licence of the sixth offshore casino, which belongs to Golden Globe Hotels Private Limited (GGHPL), a subsidiary of former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda’s MDLR Group.

Feb 23, 2017 | Bureau

Lucknow: Bookies have revised their poll forecast for the BJP from 97 to 161 seats in Uttar Pradesh after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a belligerent attack on rival parities over their “minority appeasement politics”.
As five Indian states goes to polls to select their new governments, stakes are changing fast in Delhi’s underground gambling markets, India Today reported.

Feb 22, 2017 | Bindu D Menon

From e-sports leagues to poker leagues, corporates are increasingly seeing value in investing in online gaming tournaments. Companies who have invested in such entities say a young demographic attuned to online will help it grow from a niche venture to a booming business over the next couple of years.

Feb 21, 2017 | Sam Tonkin

A student has paid his way through university by earning £80,000 playing poker and winning up to £6,000 on a single hand.

Maths undergraduate Anmol Srivats spent the past four years putting his numeracy skills to work online and at tournaments during his studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

Feb 17, 2017 | Nupur Khanna

Apart from being one of the most impactful forms of expression, music also has the power to bring a change. From rebellious songs of Rang De Basanti to rock music, the power of music can never be underestimated. To prove this fact right again, Gurdas Maan has recently unveiled his new song that shows you the mirror of ground and harsh realities of Punjab. From drug addiction, pesticides, consumerism and crime to the latest selfie-addiction, the song will break your heart for all the right reasons. Not many know that the song was completely shot outdoors at different locations in Punjab in just eight days.

Feb 20, 2017 |

Goa’s offshore casinos will not be affected by the latest rules set by the Supreme Court, banning the sale of liquor within 500 meters of state and national highways, local media reports.

Feb 19, 2017 | ET Bureau

At least once a month, the cards are stacked against Jitendra Gupta. The managing director of digital payments provider PayU India has to rack his brains to beat some of the best minds in the startup world at his Mumbai residence. However, most of the time, Gupta grins, he has that ace up his sleeve (only metaphorically, of course).

Feb 19, 2017 | ET Bureau

When Aman Dhingra, a travel agent in Delhi, started playing Crush Saga in 2014, one of 93 million people across the world who reportedly played hugely popular puzzle game that year. However, Dhingra’s foreign love affair didn’t last long. Last year, he ditched Candy and fell for teen patti. “I have a massive crush on the desi game,” he grins. “And it will be an enduring affair.”

Feb 14, 2017 | Business

Arguably, one of the first game designing companies in India, Nazara Games has delved into the country’s latest buzz, E-sports. The Mumbai-based company registered 19.4 million downloads on Play Store in 2016, making them the most successful mobile game developer in India. They will be investing $20 million (Rs 36 crore) over a duration of five years, in three competitive games – Counter-Strike Global Offensive, DOTA 2 and League of Legends.

Feb 15, 2017 | ETBrandEquity

Poker Sports League, proclaims the web page of India’s first professional pan-India poker tournament, is one shot at poker greatness. However, it’s not the pompous declaration but the reasons dished out for the ‘greatness’ that make one sit up and take notice: Poker is as much a sport as cricket or football; skills need to beat luck; and poker deserves its glory and gamification.

Feb 13, 2017 | ET Bureau

MUMBAI: Poker Sports League (PSL), the first of its kind league launched by Amit Burman of Dabur, has roped in corporate chiefs as team owners ahead of its debut season. ETwas first to report that Burman, in his personal capacity, has joined hands with Anuj Gupta (founder of poker portal Adda52. com) and Pranav Bagai (founder of India Poker Legend), to launch PSL as a 12-team league.

12Feb February| Gutshot Staff

The words Management and Poker don’t really feature together unless you talk about Bankroll Management. But the winds of change are sweeping the sport of poker across the country in all shapes and forms. And it is fitting that one of premier educational institutions in India is leading the way in this regard. Deepak Dhayanithy, is a 40-something professor at the Indian Institute of Management in the city of Kozhikode (formerly Calicut), located in the southern state of Kerala. And the good professor has a very unique connect to the country’s poker community. He is teaching the sport of poker to the students of IIM-K who can chose to study this as an elective subject. Nope we are not kidding! It even sounds like the kind of subject you’d hear about in the hallowed halls of an IIM – ‘Competitive Strategy: The Game of Poker’ or CSP as it is more commonly referred to in that campus.

9th February| Rest of Asia

The outlook for the gaming industry in India was discussed on the second day of this year’s International Casino Exhibition (ICE), an industry trade show that is branded ICE Totally Gaming. The event is held at the ExCeL convention centre in London in the United Kingdom.

8th February

Microgaming won the Mobile Product award at the tenth International Gaming Awards held at the InterContinental London Park Lane on Monday.

Pioneers of mobile, the company developed the first ever mobile casino software in 2004. Microgaming has since created the largest portfolio of mobile games, with over 350 titles playable across more than 3,000 devices.

6th February| Joss Wood

The Malta Gaming Authority has created a new set of regulations for skill based games.

In the announcement of the new regulations, the MGA added that it had simultaneously used its new powers to determine that fantasy sports now fall into the category of “controlled skill games.”

3rd February| TIMESOFINDIA.COM

The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday was expected to simplify the direct taxation system and reduce income tax in a big way. However, Budget 2017 did not have any specific announcements as far as the gaming industry is concerned.

30th January | TIMESOFINDIA.COM

PANAJI: While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state manifesto for 2017 election has given more emphasis on employment generation, building world class infrastructure and effective and accountable government, it promises to explore legal options to see relaxation/amendment on the order of the apex court banning sale of liquor within 500 metres of the highways.

29 January | MUMBAI MIRROR

If that happens, the scene will explode!” says poker entrepreneur Peter Abraham, as he settles into his highback chair at his office in Khar, in Mumbai. Then, almost as if it were a ricochet, he repeats his sentence, this time with an intensifier: “The scene will f***** explode!” Abraham, a hefty, bald man with a precisely trimmed French beard, is imagining a scenario in which the laws that govern card games in India are less ambiguous. He tempers his enthusiasm quickly enough, though, and returns to reality. But, perhaps, Abraham, who co-founded the Indian Poker Championship in 2010, ought to be, like any good poker player, more patient, because, after nearly a decade of being on the fringe of both popular culture and business in India, it does look like poker’s time has arrived.

26 Januarry | INDIA.COM

New Delhi, Jan 25: Deltin Group (part of Delta Corp ltd.), India’s largest and most luxurious chain of Casinos and Hotels, launches its newest venture Casino Deltin Denzong in Gangtok, Sikkim. Set 6,000 feet above sea level in one of Sikkim’s most plush hotels “Denzong Regency”, Casino Deltin Denzong is conveniently located and offers 169 gaming positions spread across two levels with breath taking views of the world’s third highest peak-Mt. Kanchenjunga to all those seeking the celestial thrill. From Asia’s largest floating casino, Deltin Royale and India’s first casino flotel – Deltin Caravela to this latest addition in Sikkim, Deltin Group is truly redefining the country’s gaming and hospitality space.

25 January | INDIAINFOLINE.COM

AIGF has not much expectation from the budget as such since it only deals with fiscal matters and does not change other laws, expect the possibility of reducing TDS on gambling, gaming and games winning (currently 30% TDS has to be deducted on winnings over Rs 10,000).

25 January | ECONOMICTIMES.COM

NEW DELHI: This year’s Padma awardees may include around a dozen ‘unsung heroes,’ as per the directive of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with politicians Sharad Pawar, Murli Manohar Joshi, the late Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and Olympic medal winners.

24th January | LIVEMINT

Panaji: The Congress party on Monday released it’s manifesto for the upcoming Goa assembly polls in which it has assured banning all the casinos in the coastal state including the floating vessels mounted with gambling dens.

21st January | THESHILLONGTIMES.COM

Aizawl: Aizawl-based anti-corruption watchdog, People’s Right to Information and Development Society of Mizoram (PRISM) on Thursday urged Lalruatkima, Chairman of the state assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to hand over the alleged Lottery scandal to the CBI.

19th January | thenortheasttoday.com

India’s first organic state Sikkim found its place on The New York Times annual list of 52 Places to Go in 2017.

Ranked in 17th spot on the list, Sikkim is described to readers as ‘a haven for spiritual seekers, soon more accessible’.

19th January | ECONOMIC TIMES

MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvala, the first generation media & entertainment entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of UTV Group, is set to launch an electronic sports (eSports) league in India. Named UCypher, the first of its kind tournament will see 10 teams taking part in PC, console and mobile games’ league.

16th January | INDIALIVETODAY.COM

Initial inquiry reports of recent rail accidents may point to sabotage, but a former Railway Minister and officials held the “faulty financing model” and delay in implementing the required technological measures responsible for the poor infrastructure of the railways that

16th January | BUSINESS STANDARD

Gets licence for operations of Casino on 16 January 2017
Delta Corp on 16 January 2017 has been issued a licence for operations of a Casino in Gangtok, Sikkim, under the Sikkim Casino (Control &Tax) Act, 2002.

The Company is fully ready to commence its Casino operations and will do so immediately.

16th Jan 2017 | HUFFINGTONPOST.COM

Gets licence for operations of Casino on 16 January 2017
Delta Corp on 16 January 2017 has been issued a licence for operations of a Casino in Gangtok, Sikkim, under the Sikkim Casino (Control &Tax) Act, 2002.

The Company is fully ready to commence its Casino operations and will do so immediately.