{"id":922552,"date":"2025-04-16T07:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T01:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=922552"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T01:51:21","slug":"online-betting-in-telangana-losses-loans-lives-cut-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/16\/online-betting-in-telangana-losses-loans-lives-cut-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Online betting in Telangana: Losses, loans, lives cut short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: In the quiet hours before dawn, Kaligota Akash cradled his five-month-old son, tears mingling with desperate whispers. \u201cCall me daddy,\u201d he pleaded, knowing the infant\u2019s silence was a final, cruel reminder of the life he was leaving behind. <\/p>\n<p>Hours later, the 22-year-old succumbed to poison, a victim not just of his despair but of an invisible predator: online betting apps. His story \u2014 a sole breadwinner drowning in debt and parents shattered by loss \u2014 presents the grim reality, where digital gambling\u2019s allure has turned phones into weapons and dreams into obituaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: In the quiet hours before dawn, Kaligota Akash cradled his five-month-old son, tears mingling with desperate whispers. \u201cCall me daddy,\u201d he pleaded, knowing the infant\u2019s silence was a final, cruel reminder of the life he was leaving behind. Hours later, the 22-year-old succumbed to poison, a victim not just of his despair but of an invisible predator: online betting apps. His story \u2014 a sole breadwinner drowning in debt and parents shattered by loss \u2014 presents the grim reality, where digital gambling\u2019s allure has turned phones into weapons and dreams into obituaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}