Santiago Martin, also known as ‘Lottery King’ Martin, the owner of Future Gaming and Hotel Services (P) Ltd) is a business tycoon hailing from Coimbatore who built his business empire by printing and distributing lottery tickets. Future Gaming now handles government paper lottery schemes for the northeast governments with a near-monopoly. With lotteries legal only in a handful of states, apart from Kerala, where the state government does not permit private distributors, West Bengal is the biggest market for the paper lottery business and for Martin

Union Minister of Tourism G Kishan Reddy on Saturday said that people have already given the title of 'casino capital' to Goa. "People have...

Chairman of Rajya Sabha and Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said skill games are kill games. The remarks came as Sushil...

The Karnataka High Court yesterday stayed the provisional attachment order issued by GST authorities freezing bank accounts in alleged tax evasion by GamesKraft. Last...

Gaming and esports company, Penta Esports, has announced that ‘Battlegrounds Mobile India’ (BGMI) will be the esports title of ‘Penta Amateur League’ December 2021 edition with a prize pool of ₹5,00,000. Registrations have started and squads can enter the tournament on  Penta Esports’ platform pentaesports.com. 

Dream11 is reportedly weighing in options to enter the online rummy space, sources said citing anonymity. The gaming leader had recently closed an $840...

Rajya Sabha MP and former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Friday urged the government to levy uniform tax on them and...

Sikar MP Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati and Bharatpur MP Ranjeeta Kohli raised questions in the Lok Sabha regarding any proposal for the ban of internet games. The queries are posed as starred questions meaning the concerned minister is required to provide oral answers in the house.

Games24x7 announced that it will work towards the cause of child welfare in India. Towards this year’s end, Games24x7 will make financial contributions and partner with some of the pre-eminent organisations working in this domain including Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF), Hemkunt Foundation, Akshaya Patra Foundation and United Way of Bengaluru.

Registrations for the first week of races has opened on the 29 November and close on 5 December, while registrations for the second week will begin on 6 December and close on 12 December. All players will get to register for their region for the leaderboard-based tournament. Twelve finalists from across the three regions will race it out on one track during the grand finale on 18 December for the big prizes.

India’s leading gamers – Ujjwal Chaurasia, Mythpat, Magsplay, Desi Gamers and many more were recently seen collaborating with BB ki Vines Productions to celebrate the success of Bhuvan Bam’s most talked about web series, Dhindora.Bam’s debut web series, Dhindora was originally launched on YouTube on 14 October and has received a great response from both the audience and critics. Celebrating this massive success, Bhuvan Bam joined a YouTube live session with India’s leading gamers yesterday and played an online game during the virtual success party. Hosted on Ujjwal Chaurasia’s YouTube channel, this fun live stream has garnered 1.2 million+ views. 

The police have registered a case against them under relevant sections of the IPC and also invoked The Gambling Act against them. Acting on a tip-off on the racket, cops carried out a house at Sambasivaraopet area and caught the accused red-handed while gambling. 

Gambling With Lives-affiliated (GWL) campaign group The Big Step recently launched Football Supporters Against Gambling Ads (Football SAGA), which will galvanise support to put a stop to gambling advertising in the sport.

CVC Capital Partners, who were awarded the Ahmedabad IPL franchise ran into trouble for its links with betting companies. The franchise owner's present and past gambling...

Avocado Guild recently announced that the organization raised $18 million from strategic investors. The capital raise arise from the firm’s Series A funding round which gave Avocado Guild an overall valuation of around $200 million. According to the organization, the Series A financing was led by Animoca Brands and QCP Soteria Node.

National Fantasy Cricket Championship (NFCC) hosted on BalleBaazi.com, which started with an objective to boost the fantasy sports landscape in India, recently concluded on a high note with Aakansha Gupta – a CA aspirant, hailing from Madhya Pradesh being crowned the ultimate champion with 783.5 points. With BalleBaazi.com’s only 1% userbase consisting of women participants, the achievement stands unique. As #1 on the leaderboard, Aakansha will take home the winning prize pool and an opportunity to travel Lord’s Cricket Ground – the Mecca of Cricket.