- The Rajya Sabha will today take up the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, a day after the Lok Sabha cleared it to ban money-based online games over concerns of addiction, fraud and laundering.
The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025 will be tabled in Rajya Sabha today, August 21.Â
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a bill to ban the operating, facilitating and advertising of online games played with money, with a view to checking rising instances of addiction, money laundering and financial fraud.
Piloted by Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025 was passed without a debate as Opposition members raised slogans demanding a discussion on the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar by the Election Commission.
Once the legislation is passed by both Houses of Parliament, offering or facilitating online money gaming will be punishable by imprisonment of up to 3 years and/or a fine of up to ₹1 crore.
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Parliament Monsoon Session LIVE: Amit Shah to present 3 key bills in Rajya Sabha
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to move a motion in the Rajya Sabha today, seeking the House’s concurrence to set up a Joint Committee of the Houses on three key bills. The bills are amendments to the Constitution of India, the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 and Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bil
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Parliament Monsoon Session LIVE: What bills were passed by the Rajya Sabha during the Parliament seesion
The bills passed or returned by the Rajya Sabha are The Bills of Lading Bill, 2025, The Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2025, The Coastal Shipping Bill, 2025, The Manipur Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025, The Manipur Appropriation (No.2) Bill, 2025, The Merchant Shipping Bill, 2025 and The Readjustment of Representation of Scheduled Tribes in Assembly Constituencies of the State of Goa Bill, 2025
Other bills passed by the Rajya Sabha are The National Sports Governance Bill, 2025, The National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill, 2025, The Income-tax Bill, 2025, The Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2025, The Indian Ports Bill, 2025, The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2025 and The Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2025
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The bills passed by the Lok Sabha are The Readjustment of Representation of Scheduled Tribes in Assembly Constituencies of the State of Goa Bill, 2025, The Merchant Shipping Bill, 2025, The Manipur Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025, The Manipur Appropriation (No.2) Bill, 2025, The National Sports Governance Bill, 2025, and The National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill, 2025.
Other bills passed by the Lok Sabha are The Income-tax Bill, 2025, The Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2025, The Indian Ports Bill, 2025, The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2025, The Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2025 and The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025.
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Parliament Monsoon Session LIVE: 12 bills were passed by the Lok Sabha and 14 by the Rajya Sabha
Twelve bills were passed by the Lok Sabha and 14 by the Rajya Sabha during the month-long Monsoon session of Parliament, which has witnessed repeated disruptions, adjournments and walkouts.
Barring discussions on Operation Sindoor in both House, the session has seen little business ever since it began on July 21 due to repeated disruptions and adjournments initially due to opposition demand for discussion on Operation Sindoor and then over demands for a discussion on the Special Intensive Revision exercise in Bihar.
The Monsoon session is scheduled to end on Thursday.
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Parliament Monsoon Session LIVE: Online gaming bill passed by Lok Sabha on Wednesday, MPs react
A bill to regulate online gaming, which was passed by Lok Sabha on Wednesday with voice vote amid din, was welcomed by many MPs who highlighted the “serious problem” of money games harming society, even as Congress MP Shashi Tharoor cautioned that the ban on these games that use money will only push such activities “underground”.
Tharoor said that such online games can serve as a useful source of revenue for the government if legalised, regulated and taxed.
The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, bans the operating, facilitating and advertising of online money games, as the government looks to check rising instances of addiction, money laundering and financial fraud through such applications.
