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Two violent incidents occurred at separate restaurants in Chicago, Illinois over the weekend. At a McDonald's, three people were injured when an offender was refused free food. Credit: FOX 32 Chicago

Turkey's government will hold talks with Instagram officials on Monday after blocking access to the social media platform last week, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said in a post on X. The move came after a senior Turkish official accused Instagram of blocking condolence posts following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Uraloglu said Turkey had expressed certain sensitivities regarding compliance with Turkish laws in a previous meeting with representatives of Instagram last week.

rescue operations are currently underway in flood-affected Samej village near Rampur in Shimla district following catastrophic cloudbursts in different areas of Himachal Pradesh. A catastrophic cloudburst recently struck Himachal Pradesh, causing widespread devastation and destroying different areas of the hill station, including Samej village. On Monday the Lahual Spiti Police said that due to a flash flood near Zinzing Bar on National Highway 3, the road has been blocked. Restoration is ongoing but all traffic is halted at Sarcha and Sarch till the post is cleared.

Bangladesh is on edge once again as at least 91 people, including 14 policemen, were killed and hundreds injured on Sunday in fierce clashes between protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation and the ruling party supporters in different parts of the country. The clashes broke out when protesters attending the non-cooperation programme under the banner of Students Against Discrimination with the one-point demand of the government's resignation faced opposition from the supporters of Hasina-led Awami League. As violence escalated, the home ministry imposed an indefinite countrywide curfew from 6 pm and blocked the use of certain social media platforms. A three-day public holiday has been announced starting Monday.

IDBI Bank is selling its Rs 6,151 crore legacy stressed asset portfolio to Omkara Asset Reconstruction Company (ARC) in a move that will help the government fetch an improved valuation for the proposed stake sale in the lender, people with knowledge of the matter told ET. At inter-se bidding held on Saturday (August 3), Omkara ARC gave the highest offer of Rs 652 crore, outbidding government-promoted National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL). For IDBI Bank, the distressed portfolio sale equates to a recovery of 10.5%, which will be reflected in its second-quarter earnings. “The sale of the stressed portfolio will have a significant positive impact on IDBI Bank’s valuation since potential bidders were wary of acquiring a bank with legacy loans, which the bank itself failed to resolve for over two decades,” said an advisor involved in the transaction who did not want to be named.

Protests in Bangladesh that began as student-led demonstrations against government hiring rules have spiralled into violence killing more than 260 people and sparking widespread calls for the premier to resign. Here are five key dates spanning the protests posing a daunting challenge to the autocratic rule of 76-year-old Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, leader of the South Asian nation of about 170 million people. — July 1: Blockades begin - University students build barricades blocking roads and railway lines to demand reforms of a quota system for sought-after public sector job hires.

heavy rainfall is currently affecting several regions of India as the monsoon enters its active phase. IMD scientist Dr. Naresh Kumar on Sunday announced that western Madhya Pradesh, eastern Rajasthan, Gujarat, the Konkan region, Goa, and Maharashtra are all on high alert, with a red alert issued for these areas. However, the Delhi-NCR region is expected to remain dry for the next two days.

JSW Steel has submitted a notice to surrender a mining lease for a block in Odisha, citing «uneconomic operation». Jajang iron ore block in Keonjhar, is one of the four iron ore mining leases which were acquired through an auction in 2020, JSW Steel said in a regulatory filing on Saturday.

A remote landslide in B.C.’s Central Interior that’s blocking a river is still being closely monitored.

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Sheikh Hasina's invitation for talks while protesters laid siege on major streets in the capital, days after more than 200 people died in anti-quota protests. Bangladesh recently witnessed violent clashes between the police and mostly student protesters demanding an end to a controversial quota system that reserved 30 per cent of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh's War of Independence in 1971. Witnesses said students protesting blocked major roads of Dhaka causing traffic snarls while officials said security forces were ordered to keep intensified vigil as protesters started rallying at different city points. On Friday, Prime Minister Hasina urged the agitating students to meet at her Ganabhaban official residence for talks to end the violence over the quota system in government jobs.

Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB) has cautioned its customers about an ongoing scam in the bank's name. The bank said that it is important for you to know about the scam to keep your money safe from the scamsters. This scam (APK file scam) starts with you receiving a fake message supposedly from the bank informing that your bank account will be blocked due to a KYC update. However, in reality, no such message has ever been sent by the bank, and neither is your KYC going to expire. «They are asking customers to download APK files loaded with malware to steal account and personal information,» Punjab and Sind Bank said in the notice. So how exactly does the scam happen? And what false narratives do the fraudsters create to lure you into following their call to action? Read below to know more about this and be alert.

Turkey’s communications authority has blocked access to the social media platform Instagram

Genus Power Infrastructures in a block deal. The shares were purchased at a price of Rs 346.50 a piece taking the total investment at Rs 207 crore. While Nomura India Investment Fund Mother Fund was on buyer's side, the sellers were promoters Seema Todi, Banwari Lal Todi and Anand Todi who sold 26 lakh shares, 40 lakh shares and 19 lakh shares respectively.

Turkey has blocked access to social media platform Instagram, the infotech regulator said on Friday, without stating a reason or duration for the ban, which also left the platform's mobile app inaccessible. The move follows comments on Wednesday by Turkish communications official Fahrettin Altun, criticising the platform for what he called its decision to block condolence posts on the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, a key official of Palestinian militant group Hamas. «This is censorship, pure and simple,» Altun, the communications director of the Turkish presidency, said on X, adding that Instagram had not cited any policy violations for its action.

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Senators are heading home for the month after failing to advance a bill to expand the child tax credit and restore some business tax breaks

Families of some of the people killed in Boeing Max crashes are asking a judge to reject a plea agreement that the aircraft maker struck with the prosecutors

Finra slapped Pershing with a $1.4 million fine for distributing over one million account statements and trade confirmations containing inaccurate interest rate information on variable rate securities.

Huffman highlighted the importance of these deals for maintaining control over Reddit’s data and ensuring its responsible use. Without such agreements, Reddit cannot oversee how its data is presented or utilized, risking potential misuse."Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how our data is displayed and what it’s used for, which has put us in a position now of blocking folks who haven’t been willing to come to terms with how we’d like our data to be used or not used," Huffman said in an interview with The Verge.According to the publication, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity are among the companies that have resisted negotiating, leading to what Huffman describes as "a real pain" in blocking their access.

Bitcoin mining firm Riot Platforms reports a total revenue of $70.0 million from the $76.7 million recorded in the same period last year. The drop is due to the Bitcoin halving event in April.