As Andhra Pradesh celebrates Google's $15 billion AI hub investment in Visakhapatnam, political tempers flare in neighbouring Karnataka, with BJP blaming the Congress government for losing the project. In Tamil Nadu, the DMK government faces the Foxconn investment controversy after the tech giant denied a ₹15,000-crore commitment, prompting BJP attacks. Meanwhile, a heated exchange erupted in the Tamil Nadu Assembly between CM Stalin and opposition leader EPS over the Karur tragedy, where 41 people died in a stampede.