Lottery Tickets

Court's verdict earlier led to legislation brought out by Karnataka and Kerala being declared invalid

An auto-rickshaw driver, who was planning to go to Malaysia to work as a chef, on Sunday won the Rs 25 crore Onam bumper lottery in Kerala, just a day after his application for a loan of Rs 3 lakh was approved. Even more interesting is that Anoop, hailing from Sreevaraham here, bought the winning ticket -- TJ 750605 -- on Saturday. But it was not his first choice, he told media persons who were present at the agency where he had bought the ticket. He did not like the first ticket he chose, so he opted for a different one which turned out to be a winner, he said. Regarding the loan and his Malaysia trip, an ecstatic Anoop said, "The bank called today regarding the loan and I said I don't need it anymore. I will not be going to Malaysia either." He has been buying lottery tickets for the last 22 years and has won amounts ranging from a few hundreds to a maximum of Rs 5,000 in the past, Anoop said. "I was not expecting to win and therefore, I was not watching the lottery results on

While being burdened by a major financial crisis, Mohammed Bava, 50, prayed for a little luck in his life and it came true.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Saturday that it has provisionally attached movable assets worth Rs 409.92 crore in a lottery scam case involving Martin Santiago, better known as 'Lottery King'."ED has provisionally attached movable assets worth Rs 409.92 crore under PMLA, 2002 in the case of Lottery scam against M/s. Future Gaming & Hotel Services Pvt. Ltd. & its various sub-distributors/area-distributors," the Enforcement Directorate said in a tweet.Future Gaming & Hotel Services Private Limited is led by Santiago Martin who built his business empire by printing and selling lottery tickets.Having started out as a labourer in Yangon, Myanmar, he returned to India, starting his business in Tamil Nadu in 1988, and slowly expanded to Karnataka and Kerala. But in 2003, Martin had to take his business outside Tamil Nadu, after the state government banned lotteries.The ED has attached various immovable and movable assets of Future Gaming & Hotel Services ...

The revenue department notified the GST rate on supply of lotteries and amended its earlier Central Tax (Rate) notification

But the government will have to ensure protection from counterfeiting of sales receipts

In the Council meeting, the panel resorted to voting to decide whether a uniform tax on lotteries should be levied or a two-rate system be followed.

Centre will push for single rate; Kerala wants to retain current dual structure

Harold and Tina Ehrenberg found the $1.8 million winning ticket, which won the southern US state's June 6 Lottery Lotto draw