Tag: Lottery

On his way back home, Maki stopped by a grocery store and that has changed his life forever.

This is Anoop from Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram. He is an auto rickshaw driver. But his luck took a dramatic twist and he is now a crorepati. Anoop struck a jackpot worth Rs 25 crore on Sunday after winning the Onam lottery. Anoop purchased the lottery ticket on Saturday & he was planning to go to Malaysia to work as a chef. After tax deductions, Anoop will receive Rs 15 crore 75 lakh.

After taxes are deducted, Anoop would probably take home around Rs 15 crore.

"I won the lottery. So, there is no need to sell this house. When we get the prize, all our issues will be sorted out," Mr Bava told reporters. He said he was going through anxiety due to the loss he had suffered in the business. "But the Almighty finally showed me a way," Mr Bava said.

Panaji: Government lotteries and matka, an illegal daily lottery racket, beats casinos in terms of popularity among Goa’s adult male gamblers, a study has revealed. The study, published in the latest edition of the Asian Journal of Psychiatry, also establishes a linkage between tobacco-use, alcohol use disorders to gamblers’ addiction for matka. The study conducted […]

Abu Dhabi: An Indian expat from Sharjah became the latest multi-millionaire of the Big Ticket raffle after winning 15 million dirhams ($4 million) in a big money draw here. Shojith KS, an Indian national from Sharjah, on Friday night won with the number 030510. The draw was live streamed on Youtube. But the expat is […]

Dubai: Two Indian nationals, including a woman, have won a staggering USD one million each in the Dubai Duty Free raffle on Tuesday, while another compatriot has won a luxury car in the lottery game, according to a media report. Jaya Gupta and Ravi Ramchand Bachani are the two lucky Indians who won the Dubai […]

Dubai: A 43-year-old driver from Kerala has won USD 272,260 in a mall raffle draw contest here, according to a media report on Saturday. Speaking to Khaleej Times, Abdul Salam Shanavas, who hails from Thiruvananthapuram, said, “Even if I had worked for 50 years, I wouldn’t have earned anything close to this amount. I arrived […]

Dubai: An Indian storekeeper in the UAE has won a luxury car and a whopping 200,000 dirhams in a Dubai raffle, ending a decade-long wait to hit the jackpot, according to a media report on Tuesday. Sreejith has been buying raffle tickets every year for the last 10 years, Khaleej Times reported. The storekeeper claimed […]