Shashi Tharoor to introduce new Bill in Lok Sabha to regulate sports betting,...
Exclusive Thiruvananthapuram MP and senior Congress leader Dr. Shashi Tharoor is going to introduce a Private Member’s Bill to regulate sports betting and penalise match-fixing in the lower house of...
View ArticleShashi Tharoor introduces Sports (Online Gaming & Prevention of Fraud) Bill;...
As scheduled, senior Congress MP Dr. Shashi Tharoor introduced the Sports (Online Gaming & Prevention of Fraud) Bill, 2018 in the Lok Sabha yesterday. The Bill, aimed to establish an effective...
View ArticleShashi Tharoor’s Bill to regulate online sports gaming deserves consideration...
Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Shashi Tharoor introduced a private member’s bill, namely, the Sports (Online Gaming & Prevention of Fraud) Bill, 2018 in the Lok Sabha on 28 December 2018. The...
View ArticleGoa Tourism Master Plan does not envision new casinos, says state tourism...
The upcoming draft tourism master plan does not envision new casinos in Goa, Tourism Minister Manohar ‘Babu’ Ajgaonkar told the state legislative assembly on Wednesday. In a written reply to an...
View ArticleGujarat HC poker matters adjourned once again
The letters patent appeals pertaining to the legality of poker were once again adjourned by the Gujarat High Court without any hearing. On 7th February, a clutch of letters patent appeals filed by...
View ArticleTRS MP raises question on fantasy sports legality; central govt says states...
Exclusive The central government did not give a clear answer on the legality of fantasy sports and proposal to regulate it, in response to an unstarred question raised in the Lok Sabha by Telangana...
View ArticleGujarat HC dismisses KN Suresh’s poker appeal for default, other clubs’...
A division bench of the Gujarat High Court comprising of Acting Chief Justice Anant S. Dave and Justice Biren Vaishnav dismissed Indian Poker Association (IPA) Secretary KN Suresh’s letters patent...
View ArticleManipur government to reintroduce lotteries
The Manipur government is working on a plan to reintroduce lottery schemes in a bid to generate revenue for the state, as per the state’s deputy chief minister Yumnam Joykumar Singh. Joykumar, who...
View ArticleKerala HC says playing rummy for stakes amounts to offence of gambling
A division bench of the Kerala High Court in a judgment dated 24th January, 2019 ruled that playing rummy for stakes would amount to the offence of gaming under the Kerala Gaming Act, 1960, as per a...
View ArticleHas the Kerala High Court made a factual error in ignoring 1976 govt...
Exclusive A division bench of the Kerala High Court in an order passed last month, surprisingly ruled that playing rummy for stakes would amount to the offence of gaming/gambling under the Kerala...
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