BREAKING: 🇮🇳 Indian Government clears Online Gaming Bill 2025:

✅ Establishes National e-Sports Authority to regulate & promote competitive gaming.

✅ Officially recognizes e-sports as a legitimate sport.

❌ Bans all money-based gaming transactions, banks/fintechs barred from processing.

❌ Digital betting made punishable with fines & imprisonment.

❌ Ads & promotion of real-money games prohibited.

⚡ MeitY empowered to regulate & block illegal platforms.

👉 Bill aims to promote e-sports as a growth sector while cracking down on betting & money games.

Likely to be tabled in Lok-Sabha tomorrow.

Source: Moneycontrol