karnataka gaming ban

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Monday struck down the contentious amendments to the Karnataka Police Act, 1963, dealing with online games, allowing the petitions filed by the All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) and gaming companies.…

Bengaluru: Dream11 has suspended operations in Karnataka, the fantasy sports platform said in a statement to ET on Sunday. The development came a day after the Bengaluru Police filed a first information report (FIR) against founders Harsh…

Bengaluru Police are preparing to summon Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, co-founders of the fantasy sports platform Dream11 in connection with an FIR they have registered on charges of violating the new law banning wagering and betting in…

Bengaluru: Sequoia Capital-funded Mobile Premier League (MPL) was among the first few gaming startups that began blocking access to users in Karnataka on Wednesday following a ban on online gaming. The law, which came into effect late on…

Karnataka, which passed a bill banning online gaming last week, will now draft rules and implement the ban in two months, the state’s home minister told us. A similar law enacted by Tamil Nadu in February was struck down as unconstitutional…

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government will invest the corpus of its AVGC venture fund only in such gaming startups that are driven either by a subscription-based or an advertisement-based business model, official sources said on the back of…

Karnataka Assembly has passed an amendment to the Karnataka Police Act, 1963, which seeks to ban online gaming and curtail online gambling. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the proposal is not valid for online games that…