
Panaji: Once having resisted offshore casinos tooth and nail as a moralistic opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government in its budget has both slapped and caressed the increasingly powerful casino lobby in Goa. In his budget speech, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday reduced the entry fee to offshore casinos from Rs 2,000 to Rs 500, clearly paving the way for increased footfalls to the gambling hubs, but...

12:14 PM, Mar 27, 2012

New Delhi: Indicating signs of possible funds related to crime and terror trickling into the Indian casino sector, a government report has said that more than 7,000 instances of suspicious transactions have been detected in the elite gaming business during the last financial year. A total of 7,006 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) during the 2010-11 fiscal have been reported by the casino business and allied payment operators to the Financial...

12:59 PM, Jan 22, 2012

Goa government will allow 10 offshore casinos in the state to control unchecked proliferation of gambling activities. ...

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