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Kalaignar & the ‘Lottery King’ — top poll bond donor Santiago Martin’s close tryst with the DMK

Future Gaming's electoral bond contributions accounted for 77.5 percent of the DMK's total donations. His proximity to DMK is believed to have led to Jayalalithaa banning lottery in 2003.

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

‘Selling dreams to small people’—Kerala’s lottery system powers ambition, addiction

At least 1.5 lakh people earn a living from Kerala’s lottery business. If a ticket wins, even the agent who sold it gets a share of the prize money.

‘Rigged’, says BJP after the wife of TMC MLA hits Rs 1 crore jackpot in lottery 

In August, Jorasanko MLA Vivek Gupta’s wife won lottery run by Dear Lottery, organised by govts of Sikkim and Nagaland. The lottery is currently facing ED’s money-laundering probe.

The history of the USA Powerball Lottery & how you can play it from India

This is a global lottery, so people from anywhere in the world can participate.

On Google Pay, India is paying and playing — the good old lottery game

G-Pay has brought back the nostalgia associated with scratch cards. It makes you mimic the motion of scratching via swiping.

On Camera

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.