India should establish a regulatory body<\/a> to classify which online games as based on skill or chance and implement rules for blocking prohibited formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blocking orders have been passed by the Ministry of Home Affairs under Section 69(A) of the Information Technology Act, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Indian Ministry of Electronics and IT, under directives from the Ministry of Home Affairs, has issued blocking orders for 138 offshore betting and gambling sites\/apps, alongside 90 predatory loan applications, citing Section 69(A) of the IT Act, 2000. This action represents a significant escalation in India's efforts to curb unregulated offshore iGaming and addresses concerns regarding illicit financial activities, particularly those linked to China. The move underscores the ongoing regulatory vacuum at the federal level, even as a Prime Minister-appointed panel advocates for a unified regulatory body to classify online games and enforce prohibitions.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Google, YouTube, Supreme Court, Narendra Modi","focusai_location":"India","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.9), tech_data (0.8), marketing_crm (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Offshore GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact of these blocking orders on the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) of offshore iGaming operators previously active in the Indian market?"},{"label":"Federal Regulatory Timeline?","query":"What is the anticipated timeline for the establishment of a federal regulatory body in India, and how might its governance framework differentiate between skill-based and chance-based online gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777002095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002095","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777002095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777002134,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002095\/revisions\/777002134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777002095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777002095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777002095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}