{"id":957477,"date":"2025-08-25T10:14:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957477"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:04:16","slug":"firms-stop-real-money-operations-after-parliament-passes-online-gaming-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/25\/firms-stop-real-money-operations-after-parliament-passes-online-gaming-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Firms stop real-money operations after Parliament passes Online Gaming Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online gaming firms are suspending their real-money gaming operations in the wake of the Parliament passing the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, on Thursday to enforce a blanket ban on all forms of real-money online games, while encouraging the growth of e-sports and free-to-play social games. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a matter of abundant caution and in due respect of the government\u2019s mandate, Moonshine Technologies, an associate company in which Nazara Technologies Limited holds a 46.07 per cent stake, has ceased offering real money online gaming operations,\u201d a stock exchange filing from Nazara said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online gaming firms are suspending their real-money gaming operations in the wake of the Parliament passing the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, on Thursday to enforce a blanket ban on all forms of real-money online games, while encouraging the growth of e-sports and free-to-play social games. \u201cAs a matter of abundant caution and in due respect of the government\u2019s mandate, Moonshine Technologies, an associate company in which Nazara Technologies Limited holds a 46.07 per cent stake, has ceased offering real money online gaming operations,\u201d a stock exchange filing from Nazara 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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957477","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=957477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}