London: A British couple left their million pound prize winning lottery ticket stuck to their fridge for two months and only found that they had struck it rich when tipped off by their newsagent. Alan, 46, and Kim Elliott, 45, from Aspley, Nottingham had bought the ticket on March 23 from the same newsagent and found out that they had made it they took several old tickets to the newsagent...
04:23 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Atlanta: The largest lottery jackpot in US history - a whopping $656 million - will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland - but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said on Saturday. A pre-dawn call alerted Denise Metzger, manager of a Motomart convenience store, to news from lottery officials that her store had sold a winning ticket in the...
08:24 AM, Apr 01, 2012
Mumbai: Greed isn't always good. Haryana-based RC Mishra learnt this after paying a hefty price: Rs 51 lakh. The Joint General Manager of Ircon International Limited is the latest victim of what is widely known as the 'Nigerian email fraud'. Haryana police has now detained two conmen from Mumbai and Thane who had cheated the complainant. Recently, Mishra got an email claiming he had won the 'Microsoft Award' in an...
12:41 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Beijing: A lottery jackpot worth over 16 million yuan (around $2.5 million) has gone unclaimed in China - making it one of the biggest unclaimed lottery wins in the country. The winning ticket was sold May 30 in Nanjing, capital of southern Jiangsu province. Till July 29, no eligible winners presented themselves, the Nanjing Daily reported. In China, a lottery win expires 60 days after the ticket is sold. The...
11:56 AM, Aug 01, 2011
London: A woman in Britain, who dumped her man as she wanted "lots of sex", has now been described as "the unluckiest woman in the country" as her partner went on to scoop up 17.8 million pounds in a lottery. Kerry, 31, dumped trucker Matthew Breach, 37, for being dull. They had known each other since schooldays and had been a couple for 14 years. She left him as she...
12:51 PM, Mar 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry proposed new guidelines, giving sleepless nights to anxious parents who want to get their children admitted to nursery schools. The seats for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) are likely to increase by 25 per cent. Some schools also have a management quota of upto 20 per cent. If the EWS quota is implemented, it would leave only 55 per cent of the...
10:15 PM, Dec 06, 2010
New Delhi: The Congress derostered its own spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi, on Wednesday, till the controversy over him appearing for lottery king Santiano Martin is resolved. Singhvi will not be the voice of Congress party at least for some time. The party leadership is upset at Singhvi becoming the legal counsel for a Kerala lottery baron. The Kerala unit of the party had also objected to Singhvi's role in the...
05:00 PM, Oct 06, 2010
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06:19 PM, Sep 05, 2009
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