{"id":1004502,"date":"2026-04-23T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004502"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:30:41","slug":"centre-notifies-online-gaming-rules-norms-to-come-into-effect-on-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/23\/centre-notifies-online-gaming-rules-norms-to-come-into-effect-on-may-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre notifies online gaming rules; norms to come into effect on May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) on Wednesday notified the much-awaited rules providing the procedural framework to operationalise the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, which will also facilitate the creation of an online gaming authority. <\/p>\n<p>Most online games \u2014 if they are not real money games which are already and explicitly banned under the provisions \u2014 will not mandatorily need to be registered or determined, IT Secretary S Krishnan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) on Wednesday notified the much-awaited rules providing the procedural framework to operationalise the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, which will also facilitate the creation of an online gaming authority. Most online games \u2014 if they are not real money games which are already and explicitly banned under the provisions \u2014 will not mandatorily need to be registered or determined, IT Secretary S Krishnan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}