Now enacted as the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 (the “Act” ), the law was notified on August 22, 2025, following an expedited 96 hour passage through Parliament. The Act establishes a national framework that formally recognises E-Sports and Online Social Games while imposing a blanket ban on Online Money Games (including skill-based online games), alongside restrictions on advertising and payment facilitation for such Online Money Games. The scope of th

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“ Act ”) sets out a modern accountability-based framework for handling digital personal...