$20,000 instead of Rs 20,000: Bank clerk’s typo leaves Kerala University poorer by Rs 16 lakh; recovery fails | Thiruvananthapuram News
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala University’s Centre for Latin American Studies is paying the price for what could be the costliest ‘typo’ in its financial history — a careless bank clerk swapping ‘ ₹’ with ‘$’ while transferring funds to a Brazilbased journalist as remuneration for four online lectures he delivered in 2023.The difference between the intended fee…