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Beijing, March 26 (IANS) A study in China has revealed that of the country’s over 200 million lottery players, seven million are lottery addicts. The survey has been conducted by Lottery Investigation Centre of China, People’s Daily reported. According to the Beijing Times, most of these lottery addicts, who cannot help buying lotteries, are young people [...]

Hyderabad. June, 26  (TMS): The Opposition leaders, including TDP, parties and several other praja union leaders opposed the lottery system of allotment of liquor shops and tried to block the said lottery at a function hall in Khairatabad. The police stopped them and took into custody several leaders Teegala Krishna Reddy, Shobha Hymavathy, B V Raghavulu, [...]

Palermo (Italy), Feb 23 (IANS/AKI) Italian mobsters in the Sicilian city of Palermo were arrested Wednesday for extorting pastries from a local bakery and making its owners buy weekly blocks of tickets for an underground lottery. Five members of an organised crime family were arrested for forcing the pastry shop to buy 90 euros worth of [...]

Hyderabad, April 16 (TMS): This is a case of cheating popularly known as Nigerian Lottery fraud. The 10 members Nigerians gang cheated a victim of Nizamabad district on 25 Feb, 2012. The fraudsters cheated the victim in the name of winning an International Lottery where the fraudsters extracted an amount of Rs. 27 Lakhs from [...]

Ghaziabad, Feb 25 (IANS) Police in Ghaziabad arrested two Nigerian nationals Saturday for duping a local trader of at least Rs.4.5 lakh in an internet lottery scam. Police here said they initiated action after receiving a complaint from a trader that he had been cheated by some unidentified persons who told him he had won a [...]

Bangkok, April 1 (IANS) At least five people were killed and hundreds injured in a hotel fire in Thailand’s Songkhla province, the Bangkok Post online reported. The fire, which broke out at a five star hotel in Hat Yai, was caused by an explosion in the gas pipeline system, not by a bomb as some earlier [...]

London, March 16 (IANS) An eight-year-old girl from New York, who was allegedly kidnapped by her father after he was denied custody, has been found by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Thailand. Deonna Shipman was taken in July 2007 by her 51-year-old father, Jeffery Shipman, the Daily Mail reported. She was recently tracked down [...]

Bangalore, April 20 (IANS) VFS Global, an outsourcing and technology services specialist for diplomatic missions, will now collect from Bangalore visa applications of Karnataka residents who want to travel to Thailand. “Applicants from Karnataka need not go to Chennai for obtaining visas to Thailand as we have authorised VFS to collect, assess documents and deliver visas [...]

Bangkok, April 6 (IANS) Censors in Thailand have banned a film based on Shakespeare’s tragedy “Macbeth” after the movie used news footage of Thai political protests, BBC reported. “Shakespeare Must Die” is a Thai-language adaptation of the play in which an ambitious Scottish general murders the king and kills again to hold on to his throne. [...]

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) An initiative that aims to educate people across the country about science through free mobile updates has been launched here, an official said Wednesday. ‘Science@Mobile’ is an innovative scheme by IGNOU’s National Centre for Innovations in Distance Education (NCIDE) in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar, a government body involved in science popularisation [...]