2025-08-28
On August 21, Parliament slammed the brakes on online money games by passing the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025 The govt says it's selling false promises of easy riches. But what's the real story? @kaul_vivek takes a look👇 https://www.newslaundry.com/ ...
Newslaundry
A look at India's rationale for banning online real-money games, with IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw citing 450M people losing a combined ~$2.3B to them
Willie Nelson It's estimated that 45 crore individuals play real money games in India. That's close to one-third of India's population. Why are so many people playing such games? [...
2024-05-18
The internet was snapped 283 times across 39 countries last year, an increase in 41% from 2022. And India holds the dubious honour of documenting the most shutdowns globally - for six years now in a row - with 116 instances. https://www.newslaundry.com/ ... [image]
TIME
Access Now: 2023 was the worst year for internet shutdowns since monitoring began in 2016, with 283 shutdowns across 39 countries, led by India at 116
Last year, an internet shutdown in the state of Manipur, India, lasted a staggering 212 days when the state government issued 44 consecutive orders …