{"id":957623,"date":"2025-08-26T08:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957623"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:46:21","slug":"it-secretary-clears-air-on-gaming-ban-shines-light-on-what-lies-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/26\/it-secretary-clears-air-on-gaming-ban-shines-light-on-what-lies-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Secretary clears air on gaming ban, shines light on what lies ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian gaming industry is at a crossroads, following the recent legislation that has banned online money gaming. IT Secretary S Krishnan has, however, suggested that the outlook for the sector may not be as bleak as some industry players have claimed. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview to The Times of India&#8217;s Pankaj Doval, Krishnan argued that significant growth opportunities exist in social gaming and e-sports, which are ripe for development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian gaming industry is at a crossroads, following the recent legislation that has banned online money gaming. IT Secretary S Krishnan has, however, suggested that the outlook for the sector may not be as bleak as some industry players have claimed. In an interview to The Times of India&#8217;s Pankaj Doval, Krishnan argued that significant growth opportunities exist in social gaming and e-sports, which are ripe for development.<\/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-957623","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\/957623","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=957623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}