The legislation would also include games with no real-money bets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
India.- The Tamil Nadu government is considering new legislation that would impose restrictions on time and usage of online games, including those without real-money wagers. According to the Economic Times, the initiative is being led by the Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Authority (TNOGA)<\/a>, a regulatory body established in August 2023 to oversee online gaming in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tamil Nadu was one of the first states to ban online gambling and games like rummy and poker played for money, passing a law last April<\/a>. However, the Madras High Court<\/strong> deemed\u00a0the law to be unconstitutional<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The legislation would also include games with no real-money bets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777004926,"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 Tamil Nadu government, through the TNOGA, is considering new legislation to impose time and usage restrictions on online games, including those without real-money wagers. This follows a previous state law banning online gambling that was deemed unconstitutional by the Madras High Court. The initiative signals an evolving regulatory landscape in the Indian iGaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Authority (TNOGA), Madras High Court","focusai_location":"India, Tamil Nadu","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), product_ux (0.85), tech_data (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Free-to-Play?","query":"How might the inclusion of non-real-money games in Tamil Nadu's proposed legislation redefine the regulatory landscape for the broader free-to-play gaming sector in India?"},{"label":"Legal Precedent Analysis?","query":"Given the Madras High Court's previous ruling, what specific legal and constitutional challenges are anticipated for TNOGA's new legislative proposals, particularly regarding state jurisdiction over online activities?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16334],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-777016280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016280","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=777016280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777016295,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016280\/revisions\/777016295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777004926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777016280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777016280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777016280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}