Tamil Nadu aims to amend current legislation to outlaw online games involving money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
India.-\u00a0The\u00a0crusade\u00a0against online gambling continues in India, as the\u00a0Tamil Nadu state government considers a total ban on online gambling websites.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andhra Pradesh made such a decision in September<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. It recently blocked access\u00a0to 132<\/a><\/em><\/strong> gaming websites and apps.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now Tamil Nadu is considering amending current legislation to make it a punishable offence to offer online games involving money.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chief minister\u00a0Edappadi\u00a0K\u00a0Palaniswami\u00a0said on social media that the government will soon pass new gambling legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said: \u201cThe Tamil Nadu government taking a note of the situation has decided to swiftly pass legislation for arresting people running the apps and those playing the gambling games that involve betting money.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n All India Radio has reported that the ban could include online rummy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n In India, gambling legislation is decided by each state. Some jurisdictions, including Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha, have already banned real money card games, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tamil Nadu aims to amend current legislation to outlaw online games involving money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Tamil Nadu is considering amending its legislation to outlaw online games involving money, following a similar ban by Andhra Pradesh which blocked 132 gaming websites and apps. Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami indicated new legislation would soon be passed, making it a punishable offense to operate or play such games, potentially including online rummy. This move reflects a broader trend in India where states like Assam, Telangana, and Odisha have already banned real money card games.","focusai_entities":"Edappadi K Palaniswami, All India Radio","focusai_location":"India, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Telangana, Odisha","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.97), operator_casino (0.95), affiliate_publisher (0.9), product_ux (0.75), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Impact Assessment","query":"What specific provisions within Tamil Nadu's proposed legislation differentiate it from Andhra Pradesh's ban, particularly concerning the definition of 'games involving money' and the scope of enforcement against B2B suppliers?"},{"label":"Market Contraction Analysis","query":"How will a total ban in Tamil Nadu, following Andhra Pradesh, impact the aggregate GGR and NGR projections for the Indian iGaming market, and what mitigation strategies are operators considering for other states?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,158,16334],"tags":[58,225,4138],"class_list":["post-11593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","category-south-asia-news","tag-india","tag-legislation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11599,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions\/11599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}