The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has issued an advisory instructing private TV channels, digital news publishers, and OTT platforms to avoid showing commercials of online pay-to-earn sites and surrogate ads.
The ministry issued an advisory on the ads for online pay-to-earn platforms on Wednesday. In the advisory, the ministry ... Read More
Tag: online gaming
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Oct2022
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched 5G network services on Saturday, promising ultra-high-speed internet on cell phones, saying it marks the beginning of a new era with limitless possibilities. Later this month, 5G services will be carried out in 13 cities, with the objective of cross-country inclusion in the following two ... Read More
October 3, 2022Roland Landers
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Sep2022
The gaming industry in India is on a steep development curve. As per Invest India, revenue from online gaming grew 28% in 2021 to $1.2 billion and is anticipated to reach $1.9 billion by 2024. There are 303 million gamers in India and growing. India has the biggest fantasy sports ... Read More
September 23, 2022Roland Landers
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Sep2022
The board involves PM Narendra Modi's top bureaucrats, including the heads of the finance and sports ministers.
The board has prescribed making an administrative body to classify online games based on skill or chance.
The suggestion for making an administrative body classify online games based on skill or chance may finally resolve ... Read More
September 20, 2022Roland Landers
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Sep2022
Witzeal Technology is next generation gaming technological organization, laid out in 2016, that specializes in making and presenting modern games and features in the pay-to-play gaming section of India Witzeal has a large number of games that are undeniably evolved in-house, which improves the digital security of the all players, ... Read More
September 20, 2022Roland Landers
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Sep2022
Indian Online Gaming Industry Needs A Uniform Legal Framework To Boost Business Certainty
by Roland Landers /
The online gaming industry has seen a whirlwind rise in the last couple of years, powered by young and tech-savvy people, affordable accessibility of cell phones, better internet connectivity, and overall technological development.
Ready to further add to the expanding numbers, online gamers are supposed to reach 510 million by 2025, ... Read More
September 13, 2022Roland Landers
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Sep2022
Ministerial Group to Finalize GST On Horse Racing, Casinos, Online Gaming In A Week
by Roland Landers /
A ministerial group designated by the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Monday examined the taxation of horse racing, casinos, and online gaming and showed the possibility of taking on various duty regimes for these sections.
Meghalaya's Chief Minister, Conrad Sangma, who chairs the group of ministers, told reporters after ... Read More
September 6, 2022Roland Landers
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Sep2022
With around 420 million dynamic online gamers and a 500-million-strong digitally native populace aged 15–35, India is set to universally become quite possibly the fastest developing business sector. At the new India Gaming Conclave (IGO 2022), eminent industry leaders and stakeholders got together to discuss the future roadmap of the ... Read More
September 1, 2022Roland Landers
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Aug2022
GST On Online Gaming: How Will It Affect The Indian Online Gaming Industry? All India Gaming Federation CEO Roland Landers Offers His Take
by Roland Landers /
In India, online gaming is a club together with casinos and horse racing. And as such, it is largely considered to be assimilable to online gaming, including even skill-based games by the center. The GST Council is looking to impose a 28% tax on online gaming, casinos, and horse racing. ... Read More
August 30, 2022Roland Landers
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Aug2022
WinZO, India’s largest social gaming platform returned with season 2 of its most anticipated National Level Scholarship program – B.O.S.S (Battle of Super Scholar). With the addition of two new top B-schools IIM Bangalore and IIM Lucknow along with IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Calcutta, the second edition was even bigger ... Read More
August 24, 2022Roland Landers