Lottery Sambad

What Lottery Sambad does

Lottery Sambad is an Indian lottery results dissemination portal operating the website lotterysambad.day and doing business under multiple trade names including Dhankesari, Dear Lottery, and Nagaland Lottery. The platform publishes draw outcomes for the Nagaland State Lottery's three daily draws — held at 1 PM, 6 PM, and 8 PM — covering ticket series such as Dear Dwarka, Dear Godavari, Dear Finch, and Dear Goose, among others. It does not operate or sell lottery tickets directly; rather, it functions as an information aggregation and publication layer for results generated by state-regulated lottery authorities in India. Players access results through the official website, SMS services, and local newspaper/media distribution channels.

The underlying technology is a lightweight content-publishing stack — a website, SMS notification system, and media syndication channels — with no disclosed proprietary features, APIs, or SDKs. The platform maintains a historical "Yesterday Result" archive allowing players to verify past winning numbers. A Google DoubleClick advertising integration is the only disclosed monetization mechanism on the technology side.

The business model is built on informational publishing rather than direct lottery operations. The entity is classified as non-profit, headquartered in Kolkata with legal domicile in Assam, India, and operates with 1–10 employees. Its revenue model is implicitly ad-supported rather than ticket-sales-driven, as it does not conduct transactions. The primary customer segment is Indian individual lottery players across states where lotteries are legal (Nagaland, Sikkim, Kerala, Goa, and parts of Maharashtra), drawn to the site by the recurring three-daily-draw schedule and broad brand recognition.

Name

Lottery Sambad

Legal name

dhankesari.day

Website

https://lotterysambad.day

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lottery Sambad is an Indian lottery results publication portal operating lotterysambad.day that disseminates daily Nagaland State Lottery draw outcomes at 1 PM, 6 PM, and 8 PM, serving individual lottery players across multiple Indian states with results via website, SMS, and media channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Lottery Results Information Services

NAICS

Gambling Industries (7132), Other Gambling Industries (713290)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Lottery & iLottery Platforms (Web/App) (MPAEAFAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Lottery Data, Analytics & Responsible Gaming Tools (MPAEAFAJ), Draw-Based Lottery Management (Number Games, Keno as Lottery) (MPAEAFAE)

Keywords

• Lottery results portal
• Daily lottery draws
• State lottery information
• Lottery results checking
• Indian lottery news

Headquarters

HQ city

Kolkata

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Lottery Ticket Sales: Revenue generated from the sale of lottery tickets across three daily draws. Players purchase numbered tickets from authorized retailers or official websites. The lottery operates under state government regulatory frameworks with proceeds supporting charitable causes and state revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Lottery Sambad is an Indian information portal that publishes winning numbers, prize structures, and draw schedules for the Nagaland State Lottery ("Dear Lottery" / "Dhankesari") across three daily draws at 1 PM, 6 PM, and 8 PM. The site serves as a free results-checking resource for lottery players, also providing a historical archive of previous draw outcomes. The platform does not sell tickets or distribute prizes; ticket sales and prize claims are handled by state-authorized retailers and designated claim centres.

Product overview

Lottery Sambad is a daily lottery game aggregator platform operated under the Nagaland State Lottery (Dear Lottery) brand. The platform provides access to three daily draws at 1 PM, 6 PM, and 8 PM, each featuring distinct ticket series with varying prize structures. The morning draw (1 PM) offers the highest first prize of ₹99 lakh with tickets like Dear Dwarka and Dear Godavari; the afternoon draw (6 PM) features Dear Desert and Dear Wave series with ₹9,000 second-tier prizes; and the evening draw (8 PM) includes Dear Finch and Dear Goose tickets. The platform also maintains a historical results archive. Players purchase tickets through approved retailers or official websites and claim prizes at designated claim centres with valid identification.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lottery Sambad 1 PM Result Service
• Lottery Sambad 6 PM Result Service
• Lottery Sambad 8 PM Result Service

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• Lottoland: Online lottery betting operator offering access to multiple international draws. Comparable as a digital lottery engagement platform, though its business model is betting-on-outcomes rather than results dissemination.
• TheLotter: Global online lottery messenger/courier service enabling cross-border ticket purchases. Comparable in lottery-results-and-ticket-access value proposition, though operating internationally rather than tied to a single Indian state lottery.

Direct peers

• Dhankesari (official portal): The legal entity behind Lottery Sambad (per Terms & Conditions). Operates the same lottery results content under a closely related brand name — effectively a sister portal.
• Goa State Lotteries: Goa state lottery operator providing daily draws and published results — directly comparable in regulatory framework, draw cadence, and results-dissemination model to Lottery Sambad.
• Kerala State Lotteries: Indian state lottery operator running daily and bumper draws. Operates a results-publishing portal with comparable structure (draw schedules, prize tiers, results dissemination) to Lottery Sambad's format.
• Nagaland State Lotteries (Dear Lottery): Official Nagaland State Lottery operator under which Lottery Sambad's three daily draws are conducted. Most directly comparable as the issuer of the ticket series (Dear Dwarka, Dear Godavari, etc.) that Lottery Sambad publishes results for.
• Maharashtra State Lotteries: State lottery operator for Maharashtra, listed as a partial market for Lottery Sambad. Comparable in that it operates state-authorized daily draws with online results publication, though with distinct branding.
• Sikkim State Lotteries: Another Indian state lottery operator with daily draws and results publication. Listed among the states where Lottery Sambad operates, making it a comparable state-lottery results platform.

Broad incumbents

• MPL (Mobile Premier League): Large Indian real-money gaming platform with skill-based and casual games. Comparable in serving the same Indian mass-market entertainment-and-prize-seeking user base, though not a lottery operator and operates at significantly greater scale.
• Dream11 (Dream Sports): India's largest real-money gaming platform spanning fantasy sports and adjacent categories. Comparable as a mass-market Indian real-money engagement platform, though operating in a distinct product category with broader capital and brand reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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