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India’s smartphone exports crossed a staggering Rs 1.75 lakh crore ($21 billion) in 11 months of 2024-25 (April-February), which constitutes a 54 per cent jump over the corresponding figure for the same period of 2023-24, according to the India Cellular and Electronics Association.

The facility is projected to generate 150-200 specialised jobs in electronics manufacturing by FY26, making a substantial impact on both Tamil Nadu’s regional and India’s national economy.  

The forum will explore Legal and Regulatory Frameworks to create balanced, growth-oriented policies that strengthen Internet governance. 

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Governance division, MeitY, are actively supporting the Universal Acceptance Day.

The government action comes on a day when an accused in the Mahadev app case, in a video statement, claimed that Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had asked him to go to the UAE.

All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) termed it a decisive first step for comprehensive regulation for online gaming, one that will propel the industry to compete globally.

The action behind the move is based on several complaints of extortion and harassment of common people who had availed small amounts of loans through the mobile apps being run by those entities and persons.

India`s first Centre of Excellence for online gaming will be set up in Shillong, said the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology. India Startup Hub through the Software Technology Parks of India shall set up India`s first Centre of Excellence in Online Gaming in Shillong by March 2023. The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) recently circulated Draft amendments to the IT Rules 2021 in relation to online gaming for public consultation.

MeitY proposes amendments in IT rules 2021 for online gaming. Centre recently made MeitY nodal ministry for online gaming. The draft proposes to create self-regulatory bodies that will follow due diligence and customer verification.

MeiTY appointed nodal ministry for online gaming. The Centre notified these amendments to the Allocation of Business Rules recently. This move is also in line with the much-needed agenda to recognise esports as an official sport in our country.

UIDAI urges people to update their aadhaar cards that are issued 10 years ago and not updated since then. More than 1,100 government schemes and programs including 319 run by the central government use Aadhaar-based identification for the delivery of services. Many financial institutions like banks, and NBFCs, among others, use Aadhaar to authenticate and onboard customers seamlessly.

Thakur said under the provisions of Part-II of the IT Rules, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) issued directions to block 1,643 user-generated URLs, including webpages, websites, posts and accounts on social media platforms.

Govt taking steps to check Chinese mobile apps offering easy loans and cheating people. A lot of apps that have been badly misused have also been brought to the attention of MeiTY. Sitharaman however did not specify the action taken or the number of apps banned.

Indian Govt tweaks IT rules to create Grievances Appellate Committees. Govt will form one or two GACs within three months. GACs will have power to overturn social media platforms' decisions on content.

Revenue dept has shared a list of over two dozens offshore online betting apps. Most offshore betting businesses operate from Malta, Curacao, Belize, Gibraltar and Isle of Man that have loose tax regulations. Games of skill are taxed at 18% GST on the platform fee, while games of chance at 28% GST on contest entry amount.

Google launched several initiatives and collaboration with Meity to safeguard people in India from online harm. Starting a multilingual user awareness campaign to encourage netizens for safer digital transactions: Google. Google will flag off a multi-city, mixed format cybersecurity Roadshow to reach approx. 100,000 developers, IT, etc.

RBI takes a tough stand against unregistered digital loan lending apps RBI has disallowed non-bank PPIs from loading credit Instant loan apps are cheating with their consumers

MeitY had advised citizens to remain cautious when using Aadhaar cards for verification or documentation. Cardholders should also avoid downloading Aadhaar copies from public computers like those found in cyber cafes.

The draft policy proposes the launch of a non-personal data based India datasets program. The policy addresses the methods.

The policy paper seeks to facilitate a policy-centered esports outlook that aims to address India’s unique definition for esports.