{"id":253507,"date":"2025-05-16T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/24-years-of-continuous-efforts-won-the-lottery-of-13-5-crores-in-one-stroke-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:45:43","slug":"24-years-of-continuous-efforts-won-the-lottery-of-13-5-crores-in-one-stroke-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/24-years-of-continuous-efforts-won-the-lottery-of-13-5-crores-in-one-stroke-2\/","title":{"rendered":"24 years of continuous efforts, won the lottery of 13.5 crores in one stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. No one knows when luck will support people. A 69-year-old Indian expat living in Dubai, UNITED Arab Emirates (UAE), has become equally lucky. When he became a millionaire in one stroke. <\/p>\n<p>Madathil Mohandas won $ 1 million (about Rs 13.65 crore) in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire Draw. The result of this draw was announced on May 14. <\/p>\n<p>According to Arab media reports, Mohandas, who hails from Kerala in India, bought a lottery ticket from a Terminal 3 arrival shop on April 28. Mohandas, who worked as a manager at Al Jaber Gallery, became a millionaire in one stroke. <\/p>\n<p>Mohandas&#8217;s success has been driven by 24 years of sustained efforts. He has been buying duty-free tickets continuously for the last 24 years. After winning the lottery, he said, &#8220;Thank you very much Dubai Duty Free. I am very happy with this win. \u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mohandas is the 250th Indian to win a $1 million prize since the launch of Dubai Duty Free. The largest group of ticket buyers in the draw, which started in 1999, are still Indians. <\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old Indian girl also emerged victorious in the draw announced on May 14. Tasnim Aslam Sheikh, a resident of Sharjah, won the BMW F900R bike as a prize and bought a lottery ticket on April 22. &#8211; Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. No one knows when luck will support people. A 69-year-old Indian expat living in Dubai, UNITED Arab Emirates (UAE), has become equally lucky. When he became a millionaire in one stroke. Madathil Mohandas won $ 1 million (about Rs 13.65 crore) in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire Draw. The result of this draw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":253505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/253505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}