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Chennai: DMK president M K Stalin on Saturday urged Union govt to withdraw the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) Amendment Bill, 2026.Several Christian leaders called on Stalin at his residence and expressed appreciation for DMK’s opposition to the bill. In a statement, the former chief minister said a delegation of Joint Action Forum on Minorities, led by DMK MP P Wilson and comprising senior religious leaders from across the country, met Union home minister Amit Shah and sought action during the ongoing session of Parliament.“The forum urged the Centre to withdraw the FCRA Amendment Bill, 2026, repeal Section 15 of…

CM Mohan Charan Majhi at Odisha Investors’ Meet in New Delhi on Saturday Bhubaneswar: Odisha attracted investment proposals worth Rs 66,392 crore with the potential to generate 54,135 jobs during chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi’s two-day investment outreach in Delhi-NCR, which concluded on Saturday. The state signed 38 MoUs worth Rs 64,703 crore and secured additional investment intents of Rs 1,689 crore.The outreach, aimed at pitching Odisha as a manufacturing and investment destination, came a day after the state’s flagship Odisha Food Pro-2026 event. Over the last two days, the chief minister held 46 one-on-one meetings with investors and industry…

COIMBATORE: A cyber fraudster impersonated Coimbatore corporation commissioner Katta Ravi Teja to target civic officials, prompting the civic body to alert its employees and lodge a complaint on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal.The incident came to light after a corporation official received a WhatsApp message carrying the commissioner’s profile picture. The sender claimed to be facing problems with an online bank transfer and asked the official to transfer Rs 50,000, assuring that the amount would be reimbursed once the banking issue was resolved. The sender directed the official to transfer the money to an account associated with “Mizoram Rural…

Guwahati: Flood-hit residents of Sivasagar, Assam’s worst-affected district, protest outside the district commissioner’s office on Saturday, alleging irregularities and political bias in distribution of the state govt’s Rs 15,000 assistance to affected families.Led by Raijor Dal activists, the protesters alleged that several people, unaffected by the floods, had received aid while genuine victims were excluded. They also accused some BJP leaders of influencing the beneficiary lists. Members of the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) joined the demonstration.“Only Rs 15,000 has been given! There too, injustice and unfairness prevail — all victims have not received it, only selected people have. There…

Mysuru: A 42-year-old woman working as a product promoter at a shopping mall in western Mysuru allegedly died by suicide on Friday, leaving behind a note accusing her manager of workplace harassment.Vijayanagar police have registered a case against the manager of a marketing agency under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for abetment of suicide.The deceased, Nageshwari of Hinkal, allegedly left a death note stating that her manager, Dolly, who supervised her from Bengaluru, had repeatedly harassed her by pressuring her to accept responsibility for a mistake allegedly committed by someone else. She further alleged that the manager continued…

Patna: A 20-year-old man, who had been missing for the last four days, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the basement of a commercial building on New Dak Bungalow Road in Patna on Saturday, triggering panic among local residents.According to police, the deceased was identified as Sonu Ram alias Shukla, a rag-picker and a resident of Kamala Nehru Nagar. His family said he had been missing since Aug 3, following which a missing person report was lodged at Kotwali police station, and they had been searching for him since then. The body was spotted floating in water amid a…

Jamshedpur: A seven-year-old girl died down and two others sustained serious injuries when a speeding private school bus went out of control near Anna Chowk and hit them on Saturday, police said.Aarohi Kumari of Bhola Bagan, Govindpur, had come with her family to get their car washed. She was standing by the roadside when the bus veered towards her and hit her. She died on the spot, police added.The driver fled with the bus after the crash. Govindpur and Telco police intercepted it near Hurlung-Telco BEd College, arrested driver Sunil, seized the vehicle and initiated legal proceedings.Angry residents blocked Anna…

A woman from Mumbai stands accused of extorting approximately Rs 1.4 crore from her victim, employing blackmail tactics involving private photographs and videos that spanned three years THANE: A 35-year-old Mumbai woman has been booked for allegedly extorting nearly Rs 1.4 crore from a man by threatening to leak his private photos and videos, news agency PTI said on Saturday.The case was registered at Kasarvadavali police station after the 40-year-old man from Thane approached police with a complaint alleging that he had been blackmailed between June 2023 and May this year.According to the FIR, the woman allegedly had the man’s…

Shijin went missing off Muthalapozhi coast on July 31 Thiruvananthapuram: The assistant director at the Neendakara fisheries station has been transferred following protests over a controversial remark he allegedly made during a discussion with the mother of missing fisherman Gautham Krishna.The officer, Thasnima Begum, has reportedly been transferred to another office in Kollam district. The alleged reference to a “demand” during a discussion with Krishna’s mother, Reshma, had triggered protests and complaints.Reshma has also staged a protest demanding that authorities intensify efforts to locate her son. Expressing disappointment over the response from the govt and officials, she said she did…

Samik Bhattacharya speaks in the Rajya Sabha Kolkata: Driven by a specific ideology, party workers are at times distanced from Gen Z, state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya admitted on Saturday.Bhattacharya’s comments come two days after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, in an attempt to reach out to Gen Z, urged political netas to look for course correction.“Conventional party workers have a specific ideology and a definite outlook. They try to interpret society from a particular ideological perspective and that creates a distance from Gen Z. Gen Z has its own way of keeping updated about day-to-day developments. Many of them collect…