{"id":956538,"date":"2025-08-21T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956538"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:03:34","slug":"no-real-money-play-as-lok-sabha-passes-bill-to-regulate-online-gaming-betting-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/21\/no-real-money-play-as-lok-sabha-passes-bill-to-regulate-online-gaming-betting-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"No real money play as Lok Sabha passes bill to regulate online gaming, betting apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, aimed at establishing a legal framework for the fast-growing industry and introducing safeguards for players.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, introduced earlier in the day by Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw amid Opposition protests, was cleared a day after the Cabinet approved it.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill imposes a blanket ban on online games involving monetary stakes, citing addiction, financial losses and related suicides among youth as key concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, aimed at establishing a legal framework for the fast-growing industry and introducing safeguards for players. The legislation, introduced earlier in the day by Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw amid Opposition protests, was cleared a day after the Cabinet approved it. The Bill imposes a blanket ban on online games involving monetary stakes, citing addiction, financial losses and related suicides among youth as key concerns.<\/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-956538","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\/956538","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=956538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}