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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Topic: lottery

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

Carnatic musicians indulged TM Krishna for too long. Boycott is just a start

Krishna has slandered an entire community in the name of freedom of speech. But Brahmin musicians numerically dominate the field due to a complex mix of socio-economic factors, not casteism.

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. 

BRO connects new axis to Ladakh, to be shortest route

The all-weather Nimmu-Padam-Darcha Road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on Kargil-Leh Highway.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.