India, Aug. 25 -- Parliament, on Thursday, passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, which seeks to regulate e-sports and online social games, while imposing a complete ban on online money games involving monetary stakes. A reading of the Act shows it is largely modelled on Tamil Nadu's Online Gambling Act of 2022, a landmark legislation which holistically regulates online gaming and gambling in Tamil Nadu. The Act is purportedly framed by Parliament in exercise of its legislative power under Entry 31, which deals with "Posts & telegraphs; telephones; wireless; broadcasting and other like forms of communication". Though the object of the Act is indisputably laudable, a closer look at its provisions reveals that it tr...