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VPP president’s hunger strike demanding review of 1972 job reservation policy enters eighth day

VPP President’s hunger strike demanding the review of the 1972 job reservation policy enters 8th day.

The Hindu · May 30, 2023

Paxton Is Burning

Has accountability finally come to Texas?

Texas Observer · May 28, 2023

UK Government levelling up policy is failing places like Wales finds new report

“The UK Government should stop taking decisions in devolved areas and restore these funds to Wales”

Wales Online · May 26, 2023

Harlan Crow dismisses Senate panel’s questions about gifts to Clarence Thomas

WASHINGTON — A billionaire Republican donor brushed off questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee about his relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas, in a letter Monday that argues the panel did not have the authority to investigate the lavish gifts he provided to the member of the Supreme Court.

Tribune News Service · May 23, 2023

Crow sidesteps panel's questions about gifts to Clarence Thomas - Roll Call

A billionaire Republican donor brushed off questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee about his relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas.

Roll Call · May 23, 2023

Get recommendations of SEP panel without delay and roll out policy: CPI (M)

In a statement, he pointed out that there were fears about the functioning of the State Education Policy High-Level Committee headed by former judge Justice D. Murugesan due to the recent media reports

The Hindu · May 21, 2023

Six entities under lens for suspicious trading in Adani shares: Supreme Court panel

Hindenburg’s report claimed that the Adani empire was the “biggest con in corporate history” engaged in a “brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme”

The Hindu · May 21, 2023

TikTok influencers sue Montana to overturn state’s ban

A group of social media influencers are trying to get Montana’s ban on the app revoked

Evening Standard · May 19, 2023

GOP pauses Blinken contempt push after gaining access to classified Afghanistan cable

The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee says he is pausing an effort to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress now that the State Department is letting him view a redacted classified cable from U.S. diplomats in Kabul sent shortly before the U.S. withdrawal from…

The Independent UK · May 18, 2023

US House member 'pauses' subpoena attempt over Afghanistan cable

The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Thursday he accepted the State Department's invitation to view a classified cable related to the August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan and would "pause" attempts to enforce a subpoena to obtain it.

Reuters · May 18, 2023