{"id":8745,"date":"2018-07-06T13:44:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T13:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=8745"},"modified":"2018-07-06T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T13:49:09","slug":"minutes-before-leaving-uae-keralite-wins-7-million-in-raffle-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=8745","title":{"rendered":"Minutes before leaving UAE, Keralite wins $7 million in raffle draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tojo Mathew was leaving the UAE for good to join his wife in Delhi.<\/h2>\n
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An Indian man has hit a jackpot by winning a whopping USD 1.9 million in a monthly raffle in the UAE, hours before he was set to leave the country for good, a media report said today.<\/p>\n

Tojo Mathew, 30, working as civil supervisor in the capital Abu Dhabi, had bought the ticket on Tuesday at the city\u2019s airport before boarding a flight to India.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mathew, who is from Kerala\u00a0,\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>was leaving the UAE for good to join his wife in Delhi.<\/p>\n

\u201cI bought the ticket at the Abu Dhabi airport just before boarding the flight for India on June 24. I was leaving the UAE for good to join my wife, who got a job in New Delhi. I still cannot believe I won,\u201d Mathew was quoted as saying by the\u00a0Khaleej Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Will build my dream house\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Mathew won the dirham 7 million (USD 1.9 million) as he was leaving for good, the report said. He said his big dream was to own a house in Kerala.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat has been my long pending dream. Now it can become a reality with the raffle money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mathew and his friends received the news on Tuesday when they checked the Big Ticket website.<\/p>\n

Nine others won 100,000 dirhams (USD 27,000) at the draw. The winners included five Indians, one Pakistani and a Kuwaiti.<\/p>\n

Earlier, an Indian driverin\u00a0 Dubai\u00a0had won dirham 12 million in a raffle draw in Abu Dhabi in April. In January, another Keralite in the UAE had won a dirham 12 million in the biggest-ever raffle prize money in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.thehindu.com \/ The Hindu \/ Home> News> Kerala \/ by PTI Dubai \/ July 06th, 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tojo Mathew was leaving the UAE for good to join his wife in Delhi. An Indian man has hit a jackpot by winning a whopping USD 1.9 million in a monthly raffle in the UAE, hours before he was set to leave the country for good, a media report said today. Tojo Mathew, 30, working … Continue reading Minutes before leaving UAE, Keralite wins $7 million in raffle draw<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artsculture-entertainment","category-records-all","category-world-opinion"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8750,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions\/8750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}