Proposed online gaming bill could wipe out India’s real money gaming sector, push users offshore, warn industry leadersThe Union Cabinet has approved the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025 which seeks to encourage e-sports and social online...
19 Aug, 2025, 10.25 PM IST
Online betting authority: Gaming body hails Karnataka move; calls for national frameworkKarnataka plans to move a bill in the upcoming session of the legislature to amend the Karnataka Police Act, 1963, to set up the authority ...
09 Jul, 2025, 06.19 PM IST
ASCI teams up with online gaming industry to tackle offshore betting adsThe Advertising Standards Council of India has joined forces with multiple gaming federations to address illegal offshore betting and gambl...
18 Feb, 2025, 02.32 PM IST
AIGF estimates USD 2.5 bn GST loss from offshore illegal, betting firmsAIGF's Roland Landers urges swift action against offshore illegal betting, causing a USD 2.5 billion annual loss. Concerns include user har...
18 Apr, 2024, 05.56 PM IST
India's government blocked 174 betting and gambling sitesThe Indian government has blocked 581 applications, including 174 betting and gambling app, Pankaj Chaudhury, the minister of state for fin...
11 Dec, 2023, 03.48 PM IST
Illegal betting and gambling: Tax authorities losing Rs 2 lakh crore annually, says reportIllegal betting activities related to the Cricket World Cup 2023 in India are causing significant tax losses, with an estimated inflow of R...
19 Oct, 2023, 03.57 PM IST
Centre planning to raise odds against illegal betting companiesThe government found as many as 114 illegal betting and gambling platforms operating in India through domain farming, people aware of the d...
16 Oct, 2023, 06.01 AM IST
Government says adequate provisions exist to enforce GST on offshore gaming platformsSince the GST Council's July 11 decision to impose 28% tax on the full face value for online gaming, firms in the real money gaming sector ...
02 Aug, 2023, 12.51 AM IST
GST officers detect tax evasion by offshore entities providing online betting, gamblingThese online betting and gambling apps are available on Google Play Store for android phone users and App Store for iOS users and can be fr...
24 Apr, 2023, 06.57 PM IST
Stop ads of offshore betting sites, government to digital media platforms, TV channelsIn the advisory, the govt said online offshore betting platforms are now using news websites as a surrogate product to advertise the bettin...
04 Oct, 2022, 08.39 AM IST
Manohar Parrikar amending Gambling Act to allow Sahara's offshore casino: CongressGoa Congress accused Parrikar of proposing to amend the Gambling Act to allow the Sahara Group-owned offshore casino vessel to operate in t...
01 Mar, 2014, 08.53 PM IST
Goa casinos to strike windfall in rupee lossThe real big spenders are bulge-bracket desis who now find it cheaper to fly down for a weekend of gambling in Goa rather than hoof it to M...
09 Aug, 2013, 11.27 AM IST
BJP defends Manohar Parrikar on offshore casinos' issueThe BJP has defended Goa CM Manohar Parrikar over the issue of casinos, hailing him as "the leader who has vowed to phase out offshore casi...
29 May, 2013, 03.03 PM IST
Diwali and teen patti? Wealthy Indians' big bets & big thrillsET on Sunday visits casinos, homes and clubs to collate the story of big bets, big thrills and big change in India's gambling culture.
23 Oct, 2011, 12.55 PM IST
- Investors gamble on Delta as co plans offshore casinos
Investors have been accumulating shares of Delta Corp on talks that the company has plans to open a series of offshore casinos along the we...
01 Oct, 2010, 03.33 AM IST
- Goa govt hikes entertainment tax to 10% on casinos
Giving in to political opposition to offshore casinos in Goa, the state government has doubled the entertainment tax levied from the gambli...
27 Mar, 2008, 04.03 PM IST
- Goa to allow more casinos to check gambling!
Goa, the only Indian state to have legalised casinos, will allow 10 betting houses to come up in the state as part of the government's plan...
05 Sep, 2006, 04.00 PM IST