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Venugopal alleges Centre using FCRA as tool against civil society, demands rollback of new rules

Congress general secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal on Friday stepped up the party's attack on the Centre over the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), accusing Union Home Minister Amit Shah of misleading the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) and alleging that the Narendra Modi government has weaponised the law to target civil society organisations and minority-run institutions.

Bihar SIR update: 95 pc voters covered so far, says EC

The Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Friday that 94.68 per cent of voters in Bihar have been successfully covered in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, with seven days remaining for the completion of the enumeration phase.