Texas woman may never receive her $83.5 million lottery prize; here’s whyA Texas woman’s $83.5 million lottery jackpot is on hold as officials are investigating the Jackpot app she used to purchase her ticket. La...
26 Mar, 2025, 09.09 PM IST
ED unearths 'lottery king' Santiago Martin's business turnover: Inside the Rs 15,000 cr empire under probeSantiago Martin, a Coimbatore businessman, faces an ED probe for alleged illegal lottery activities. Investigators have seized assets worth...
03 Jan, 2025, 12.29 PM IST
ED seizes Rs 8.8 crore in cash from Lottery King Santiago Martin's Chennai officeThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized Rs 8.8 crore in cash during a money laundering investigation into Chennai-based 'lottery king' Sant...
16 Nov, 2024, 11.40 AM IST
ED raids multiple Kolkata locations in multi-crore lottery fraud probeThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids in Kolkata and its surrounding areas in connection with an alleged multi-crore lottery sca...
14 Nov, 2024, 10.27 PM IST
Modi government set to put lottery tickets in the 28% GST bracket“The taxation has to be logical,” said Rahul Tangri, president, Playwin, an electronic lottery provider. “It would be very unfair if the go...
04 May, 2017, 01.11 PM IST
AIGF seeks FDI in gambling, betting and lottery sectorUnder Para 5.1 of the FDI policy, foreign technological collaboration in any form is prohibited in the gambling and betting sector.
06 Jul, 2016, 05.39 AM IST
NCP’s Jayant Patil accused of involvement in multi-crore scamThere was no oversight on the Lottery operations as well as the main server of the lottery was kept out of the state which was again in vio...
18 Jun, 2016, 04.21 AM IST
MHA orders enquiry by CAG into government run lottery schemes in Sikkim, Mizoram and NagalandInvestigations into the seizure also pointed that the money was meant to be distributed during Bihar elections and was part of illegal lott...
17 Oct, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
ED registers FEMA case in Kolkata hawala raid haulED has registered a case to probe alleged hawala operations behind the over Rs 45 crore cash which was seized in Kolkata as part of a crack...
29 Sep, 2015, 09.40 PM IST
Enforcement Directorate likely to join hawala investigation in KolkataOn Thursday, the the Central Board of Direct Taxes conducted search operations at 13 place in Kolkata and Siligrui acting on specific infor...
26 Sep, 2015, 06.32 PM IST
Income Tax department widens probe in Kolkata black money case; ED, DRI may joinThe I-T probe wing, which spearheaded the action, has also sent a report in this regard to their apex body Central Board of Direct Taxes in...
25 Sep, 2015, 10.51 PM IST
Black money: Finance Ministry pats I-T Department for seizure of Rs 45 crore in KolkataFinance Ministry today lauded efforts of Income Tax Department in unearthing over Rs 45 crore black money in Kolkata and adjoining areas.
25 Sep, 2015, 08.44 PM IST
Everything you wanted to know about lotteryThe lotteries are governed by The Lotteries (Regulation) Act, 1998, a Central law, according to which a state may organise, conduct or prom...
25 May, 2015, 12.18 PM IST
The rise of Pari Rajan as lottery kingpinThe latest victim was Alok Kumar, additional commissioner of police, law and order and crime, Bengaluru West, who was suspended on Saturday.
25 May, 2015, 10.46 AM IST
Lottery operators in Punjab ask state government not to raise taxLottery operators said they generate tax revenue of Rs 120 crore annually from lottery business which goes to the state exchequer.
05 Sep, 2014, 06.53 PM IST
- Playwin puts its money on Goa casino
As per sources, global casino operators will make their presence felt in India via JVs or franchisee route by 2009.
01 Dec, 2007, 05.31 AM IST
- Karnataka lifts ban on lotteries of seven states
Karnataka has withdrawn the ban on the sale of lottery products of seven states in Karnataka.
23 Mar, 2004, 05.12 AM IST