Industry expected to attract Rs 780 crore in foreign investment, says TeamLease Digital report
The winnings from games of skill attract 18 per cent of Goods and Services Tax (GST), while winnings from games of chance mandate paying 28 per cent GST
Ray tracing uses lighting techniques to bring more realism in video games. By using algorithms, this technology traces and imitates the path of light that it would take in real world
In September this year, Google announced to shut down its cloud gaming service Stadia, admitting that it had not gained the traction the company had expected
Country has 507 million gamers and more than 900 companies in the sector
Will largely focus on entrepreneurs aspiring to build disruptive ventures in online gaming, digital marketing, digital content, sports tech, eSports, blockchain tech and analytics
The Council meeting was expected to be held in August in Madurai
Regarding rummy and poker as games of chance violates Supreme Court and Madras High Court judgments which overturned the law banning online games
Tournament to run from from Oct 16 to Nov 13, coincide with ICC Men's T20 World Cup
At least 600 million people will be playing online games by 2030, says Sameer Barde
In September, the I-T department issued show cause notices to seven online gaming firms and about three dozen high-value players for a possible evasion of Rs 28,000 crore
The income tax (I-T) department recently issued show-cause notices to seven online game companies, as part of an investigation into possible tax evasion by such institutions.
The Federation also believes that the ban can have an adverse effect on the state and will push more and more people towards illegal offshore websites
The ministry said it had issued a similar advisory on June 13, asking newspapers, private TV channels, and digital news publishers to refrain from publishing ads of online betting platforms
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has moved the Supreme Court against New Delhi Television (NDTV), the media company said
The $2 billion online gaming industry in India, while grappling with these issues, the online gaming industry should be treated as entertainment and not gambling, as it comes under the games of skill
The Enforcement Directorate has frozen more than Rs 68 crore worth of deposits after it raided a company and its related entities that ran mobile games and allegedly duped a number of people, including children, by extracting "unauthorised" payments from them and later transferred these to Singapore. The federal probe agency said in a statement that it searched three premises of Coda Payments India Pvt Ltd (CPIPL) as part of a money laundering investigation and added the company has collected Rs 2,850 crore till date, out of which Rs 2,265 crore was remitted "outside" India after retaining certain percentage of revenue for payment of taxes and nominal profits here. The ED said the company ran mobile games such as Garena Free Fire, Teen Patti Gold, Call of Duty and its money laundering case against the company was registered after taking cognisance of multiple police FIRs filed against the company and in some cases, the gaming portals too. "It is alleged that Coda Payments India Pvt.
Sector takes hope from High Courts previously overturning such prohibitions by state governments
The Council is expected to meet next month to take up the panel's report on the issue
Challenges inclusion of only DFS and Rummy on Google Play Store, calls the policy an unfair trade practice