Moodbidri: Fortune Highway 2, second modern Residential and Commercial Project of Fortune Promoters was launched here near Badaga Basadi, next to Fortune Highway 1 on Saturday evening.

Umanath Kotian, MLA, Mulki Moodabidri launched the new project by lighting the lamp. Addressing the gathering, he said, Moodbidri is now developing fast as a modern city. The people of Moodbidri now expect quality residential and commercial projects here. They will readily accept and support any project that gives them quality service and product. Four dynamic entrepreneurs have come together to give modern real estate projects to Moodbidri. We will support every project that comes up following government guidelines. I am sure this new project will be a grand success". 

Sunil Kumar, chief whip of the government and Karkala MLA was the chief guest at the event said that the Fortune Group has already successfully completed its first project and they are planning new projects in our Karkala Taluk and wished them every success.

Abdul Ahad, IPS Officer and SP, anti-corruption Bureau, Bengaluru congratulated the partners of Fortune Promoters for investing in their city and increasing employment opportunities. He said people will definitely make this project a great success as this will help to develop their city.

K. Abhayachandra Jain, Ex Minister,  Joylus D'Souza, Chairman of Christian Development Board of Karnataka, M. Chandra Shekhar, CEO of MCS Bank, Moodbidri were present as guests of honour and wished the project a great success.

Abulal Puthige, Mahendra Varma, Rony Fernandes and Denis Pereira , Partners of Fortune Promoters were present.

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Washington (AP): President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery programme on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump's direction, she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the programme.

“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she said of the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente.

Neves Valente, 48, is suspected in the shootings at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others, and the killing of an MIT professor. He was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.

Neves Valente had studied at Brown on a student visa beginning in 2000, according to an affidavit from a Providence police detective. In 2017, he was issued a diversity immigrant visa and months later obtained legal permanent residence status, according to the affidavit.

It was not immediately clear where he was between taking a leave of absence from the school in 2001 and getting the visa in 2017.

The diversity visa programme makes up to 50,000 green cards available each year by lottery to people from countries that are little represented in the US, many of them in Africa. The lottery was created by Congress, and the move is almost certain to invite legal challenges.

Nearly 20 million people applied for the 2025 visa lottery, with more than 131,000 selected when including spouses with the winners. After winning, they must undergo vetting to win admission to the United States. Portuguese citizens won only 38 slots.

Lottery winners are invited to apply for a green card. They are interviewed at consulates and subject to the same requirements and vetting as other green-card applicants.

Trump has long opposed the diversity visa lottery. Noem's announcement is the latest example of using tragedy to advance immigration policy goals. After an Afghan man was identified as the gunman in a fatal attack on National Guard members in November, Trump's administration imposed sweeping rules against immigration from Afghanistan and other counties.

While pursuing mass deportation, Trump has sought to limit or eliminate avenues to legal immigration. He has not been deterred if they are enshrined in law, like the diversity visa lottery, or the Constitution, as with a right to citizenship for anyone born on US soil. The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear his challenge to birthright citizenship.