{"id":986058,"date":"2026-01-17T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986058"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:44:03","slug":"union-government-blocks-242-illegal-betting-gambling-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/17\/union-government-blocks-242-illegal-betting-gambling-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Union government blocks 242 illegal betting, gambling websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government on Friday blocks links to 242 illegal betting and gambling websites, official sources say, continuing its crackdown on online money gaming banned last year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Friday, the Government of India blocked 242 illegal betting and gambling website links. So far, more than 7,800 such websites have been taken down, with a significant increase in enforcement actions following the passage of the Online Gaming Act,\u201d sources say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government on Friday blocks links to 242 illegal betting and gambling websites, official sources say, continuing its crackdown on online money gaming banned last year. \u201cOn Friday, the Government of India blocked 242 illegal betting and gambling website links. So far, more than 7,800 such websites have been taken down, with a significant increase in enforcement actions following the passage of the Online Gaming Act,\u201d sources say.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986058","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=986058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}