{"id":956268,"date":"2025-08-20T07:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956268"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:33:49","slug":"cabinet-approves-gaming-bill-to-regulate-e-sports-and-prohibit-online-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/cabinet-approves-gaming-bill-to-regulate-e-sports-and-prohibit-online-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves Gaming Bill to regulate e-sports and prohibit online betting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday approved the Online Gaming Bill, making online betting a punishable offence, as per ET sources. <\/p>\n<p>The bill is likely to be introduced in the Lok Sabha tomorrow, said an ET Now report. <\/p>\n<p>This follows a rise in fraud cases in recent months, with investigating agencies also stepping up action against celebrities promoting such applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday approved the Online Gaming Bill, making online betting a punishable offence, as per ET sources. The bill is likely to be introduced in the Lok Sabha tomorrow, said an ET Now report. This follows a rise in fraud cases in recent months, with investigating agencies also stepping up action against celebrities promoting such applications.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956268","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=956268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}