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The Court seems to have assumed that the degree of chance increased in online gambling; and there was a possibility of manipulation including randomness, cheating, and collusion in the online space.

The Legislative Assembly of the State of Nagaland in India, as per reports, recently passed The Nagaland Prohibition of Gambling and Promotion and Regulation of Online Games of Skill Bill, 2015 ("Bill").

The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 (hereinafter "the Act"), passed by the Parliament of India in August 2025, represents the most significant and disruptive legislative intervention...

Recently, the States of Karnataka, Kerala and others preferred an appeal before the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India against the judgments of respective High Courts holding that the State Legislatures had no legislative...

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”) has, on April 22, 2026, notified the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Rules, 2026 (“Rules”), which have come into effect on May 1, 2026.

Tenets of Buddhism have defied time and are as relevant today (if not more) as they were centuries ago, when they were first pronounced by Buddha, the Enlightened One.

Over the last few years, the online gaming sector has been growing by leaps and bounds. The sector has seen a spurt, not only in the number of companies...

Esports in India experienced remarkable growth, primarily driven by the rise of professional players, expanding audiences, frequent tournaments, and substantial investments.

The Karnataka Government was the recent southern State prohibiting all forms of online games involving monetary stakes.

Recently, the Indian government integrated its homegrown AI language tool –Bhashini with ChatGPT. So, we decided to do it too. This month's introductory opener is brought...

The Covid-19 pandemic has rendered the traditional live sports industry across the globe practically comatose.

The great Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, often said, that if it were not for injustice, man would not know of justice. In the words of Alexandre Dumas ‘Justice is a powerful and unrelenting force'...

Indian mythology suggests that playing and losing at a game of dice led to the Pandava brothers, their wife and mother being sent to exile.

There is a growing power tussle between the legislature of various states and judiciary on the subject matter of overlap of gaming and gambling laws.

A governance model in sport is necessary to ensure integrity of the sport and to protect rights of its stakeholders: the players, teams, publishers and competition organisers.

In our previous article, we analysed and discussed the Madras High Court judgment in All India Gaming Federation v. State of Tamil Nadu & Ors, whereby the Court partly upheld the constitutional validity.

In a pursuit to embrace the gaming industry at its core just like its sister States Nagaland and Sikkim, the Government of Meghalaya has decided to adopt a license based regime for regulation of gaming and gambling in the territory of the state.

E-gaming in India has experienced a phase of meteoric growth in recent years fueled by a young and tech-savvy population, advent of skill based games and last but not the least easy access to high-speed data...