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HYDERABAD: A promise of a Rs 2 crore lottery windfall, reinforced by the name of Mukesh Ambani and forged documents bearing the Prime Minister’s photograph, cost a 77-year-old Hyderabad woman nearly everything she had as cyber fraudsters siphoned off Rs 1.8 crore from her bank accounts over nine months.The Barkatpura resident approached Hyderabad cyber crime…
This is a representative AI image NEW DELHI: After US President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose a $100,000 entry fee on new H-1B visa applications, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a major overhaul of the visa selection process replacing the long-standing random lottery system with a wage-weighted selection model.In a statement on…
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has moved to overhaul the H-1B work visa selection process, replacing the long-standing random lottery with a system that gives preference to higher-paid and more highly skilled foreign workers, a shift the Trump administration states is aimed at protecting American wages and jobs.This rule, together with the imposition…
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has suspended the diversity green card lottery programme, saying it allowed the suspect in the deadly Brown University and MIT shootings to enter the United States, as his administration moved to tighten legal immigration channels following the attacks.Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem…
Are investors lining up out of long-term interest? Not at all. The game is played for listing gains. (AI image) By Ashish MenonApplying for IPOs has quietly become a national pastime. Every few weeks, millions of investors line up online, hoping for that one lucky allotment. The attraction isn’t ownership, growth, or dividends. It’s the…
The UAE Lottery shared the emotional phone call revealing Anilkum** B** as Dh100 million winner/Representative Image The UAE Lottery has released the real audio of the phone call informing its latest jackpot winner — a UAE resident identified as Anilkum* B*** — that he had won a record-breaking Dh100 million in the October 18 draw….
A man from Dezhou, Shandong province has captured the attention of social media and news outlets across China after winning a 10.17 million yuan (US$1.4 million) lottery in December 2024 and reportedly spending a large portion of his winnings on gambling and female live-streamers, leaving his wife with nothing. The scandal has sparked outrage online,…
Image credits: Getty Images Imagine you are a married man and have won a lottery of a whopping $1.4M. Who would you spend it on and with whom? One would assume with their wife, enjoying luxuries you couldn’t before, but a man in China destroyed his entire life by deciding to use that money to…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who has a net worth of around $240 billion, once described himself as a ‘lottery winner’ and emphasised on the moral obligation which comes with extraordinary wealth. In a 2001 interview, Bezos shared his thoughts on philanthropy, calling it a challenge equal to building a fortune. “If you are a lottery…
NEW DELHI: Days after the Trump administration imposed an exorbitant fee on H-1B visa, US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick said that there will be “a significant number of changes” in the H-1B visa process before February 2026, when the new fee of $100,000 goes into effect.Lutnick described the current visa process as a “wrong idea”…
