Folding in India, gaming companies lose bigAmid India's recent real-money gaming prohibition, gaming companies are grappling with significant financial setbacks. Flutter Entertainmen...
16 Nov, 2025, 11.56 AM IST
RMG ban sparks massive impairments as gaming majors erase India betsGaming companies are reporting large write-downs after India’s real money gaming ban, with major players such as Flutter, Clairvest and Naz...
16 Nov, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Canada’s Clairvest Group writes off investment in Head Digital Works after real money gaming banThe investment that had a carrying value of Rs 760 crore has been marked down to nil. This resulted in Clairvest reporting a net loss of ar...
13 Nov, 2025, 08.38 PM IST
Real-money gaming ban triggers split in industry response: Legal challenge vs complianceWhile most big companies in the RMG space have complied with the new law, one firm, Head Digital Works, which owns India’s top online gamin...
29 Aug, 2025, 07.29 PM IST
Gaming company callenges new law in Karnataka High CourtHead Digital Works challenges the Online Gaming Act, 2025 in Karnataka High Court. The company questions the Centre's legislative competenc...
28 Aug, 2025, 10.34 PM IST
New law likely to fuel shift from real-money gaming to esports, casual gamesThe Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, is expected to boost esports and casual gaming in India by providing regulatory cl...
25 Aug, 2025, 12.24 AM IST
Gaming ads may take a hit; actors, cricketers treading cautiouslyDream11’s three-year sponsorship deal with BCCI has also comes under cloud due to the proposed ban on real money gaming. Meanwhile, Ranbir ...
21 Aug, 2025, 11.28 AM IST
Vijay Deverakonda, Rana Daggubati and Nidhhi Agerwal, among many celebrities under ED investigation in betting app caseThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) has initiated a major crackdown, filing a case against 29 actors, social media personalities, and influenc...
10 Jul, 2025, 10.05 AM IST
Madras HC allows partial lifting of ban by Tamil Nadu govt on online gamingThe Madras High Court on Thursday ordered partial lifting of ban on online gaming as it has allowed games of skills like rummy and poker. H...
09 Nov, 2023, 05.31 PM IST
Madras HC denies immediate relief to online gaming companiesThe bench said that they would prefer to take up the writ petitions for final hearing anytime rather than hearing the matter for the purpos...
03 Jul, 2023, 09.30 PM IST
Sports not games, but both gameOld physically played games like rummy, poker and blackjack are getting seamlessly digitalised, being played online and increasingly in vir...
16 Dec, 2022, 11.10 PM IST
This cyber game may be a losing bet: Karnataka readies to ban online gamblingKarnataka has proposed a set of amendments to the Karnataka Police Act, 1963, to prohibit all types of online gambling activities that invo...
06 Sep, 2021, 10.53 AM IST
A jigsaw of rules is hurting the prospects of online gaming in IndiaWhen it comes to the law, it is as confusing as a jigsaw puzzle. For example, you can play rummy offline, but not online for money. In some...
04 Apr, 2021, 10.08 AM IST
Real-money gaming companies face an increasing hostile regulatory landscapeTamil Nadu was the third south Indian state to ban these games, after Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka is considering a similar ...
09 Dec, 2020, 11.04 PM IST
Real-money gaming firms make a bigger betCard-based games such as rummy and poker, from companies such as Adda52, RummyCircle and Ace2Three, were part of the first wave of realmone...
21 Oct, 2019, 09.24 AM IST
Tech lobbyists now crowd New Delhi's power corridorsStrengthening channels of communication with the government has become inevitable for companies to proactively address concerns around new ...
12 Dec, 2017, 01.36 PM IST
How traditional card games such as poker, rummy and teen patti have taken the mobile gaming industry by stormTraditional card games such as teen patti, poker and rummy have taken the mobile gaming industry by storm as card games on social networks ...
19 Feb, 2017, 12.31 AM IST