The Karnataka government as of late started implementing the Karnataka Police (Amendment) Act, 2021, which condemns movements of every kind that fall under the umbrella of online gaming by bringing it under the extent of 'betting and wagering'. The enactment subjects players taking an interest in such exercises to a ... Read More
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Oct2021
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Oct2021
Skill gaming industry body All India Gaming Federation alongside real money gaming firms Mobile Premier League (MPL), Games24x7, A23(Ace2Three), and Gameskraft have moved toward the Karnataka High Court appealing against the state's online gambling law that happened on October 5.
These organizations have filed writ petitions in the Karnataka High ... Read More
08
Oct2021
The issue at hand was obvious to everyone. Since last November, winds of a potential, all-unavoidable restriction on all types of online gaming have been blowing in Karnataka. Which today has come true! Fourteen days after the Karnataka legislative assembly passed the Karnataka Police (Amendment) Bill, 2021, Governor Thawar Chand ... Read More
08
Oct2021
In 1957 the Supreme Court of India has over and again repeated that skill games are not gambling exercises and offering games of skill is an authentic business action secured under the Indian Constitution. The Karnataka High Court has used similar principles to hold various games as games of skill ... Read More
08
Oct2021
Members from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) have communicated their conflict with the prohibition of online betting in the territory of Karnataka.
An amendment banning all types of gambling in the state keeps on drawing analysis from the industry even as it becomes effective recently. Members ... Read More
08
Oct2021
The gaming business needs the Karnataka government to define 'games of chance' and 'games of skill' in the wake of another law banning online gambling.
During the as of a late concluded monsoon session in the two houses the state council, the government passed a law that the gaming industry, ... Read More
08
Oct2021
The ban on online gaming became effective in Karnataka with the state government notifying the Karnataka Police (Amendment) Act, 2021 on Wednesday.
The Act bans all formats of online games including betting, wagering, and gambling of all nature and forms in the state. Minutes after the notification, a few gaming ... Read More
08
Oct2021
Manish Agarwal, the CEO of India's first publicly recorded gaming organization Nazara Technologies, is hopeful that more clarity will arise in the country's real-money gaming market in the coming quarters.
Over the previous year, a few Indian states like Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala have restricted or attempted ... Read More
07
Oct2021
Sequoia Capital-funded Mobile Premier League (MPL) was among the initial, not many gaming startups that started hindering access to users in Karnataka on Wednesday following a restriction on online gaming.
The law, which became effective late on Tuesday, boycotts online games including wagering and betting, and "any act or gambling money, ... Read More
07
Oct2021
The Karnataka government's notification restricting all skill games that include entry fees has left the industry confused and frustrated as it has come surprisingly close to the state home minister saying that the state will execute the principles in around two months.
Prior, the Home Minister of Karnataka had said ... Read More