{"id":5364,"date":"2022-12-28T02:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T20:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5364"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T00:23:53","slug":"e-sports-to-be-part-of-multisport-event-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/e-sports-to-be-part-of-multisport-event-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"E-sports to be part of multisport event in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The President of India, amended the regulations governing eSports in accordance with the authority &#8220;conferred by clause (3) of Article 77 of the Constitution&#8221; and requested the Sports Ministry and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to include &#8220;<strong>Esports as part of multi-sports events.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>According to a gazette notification, E-Sports will now be a part of the \u201cmultisports event\u201d category in India. <strong>E-Sports will be taken care of by Department of Sports under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports<\/strong>. Meanwhile, <strong>&#8216;Online Gaming&#8217; <\/strong>will be under MEITY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology).<\/li>\n<li>E-Sports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are some examples of E-sports?<\/h3>\n<p>Some of the most popular esports games include League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, Dota 2 and Call of Duty amongst many others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/technology\/tech-news\/government-gives-official-recognition-to-esports-11672209349020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Government gives official recognition to Esports: All details<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-Sports, a form of competition using video games, will now be a part of multi sports event in India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}