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Conservative advocates have been feeling emboldened by the Supreme Court’s June ruling ending affirmative action in college admissions and are now seeking to set a similar precedent in the workplace

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will fight for the mayor's seat while the Congress will contest the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor, the sources said. The development came amid the AAP and the Congress, both constituents of the INDIA bloc, holding talks over seat sharing for this year's Lok Sabha polls. With the AAP and the Congress deciding to have a tie-up for the January 18 Chandigarh mayoral polls, it is going to be a two-way contest and observers believe that the two parties will have an edge over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Mayawati on Monday said that her party would fight 2024 Lok Sabha Elections “alone". Mayawati has not yet joined any of the alliances--the INDIA bloc or the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA)--and the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections are just a few months away. Mayawati, who had served as the 18th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, turned 68 years old on Monday, said she had no plan to retire from politics.

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Rahul Gandhi on Sunday started his Manipur to Mumbai 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' from Thoubal, by vowing to take up the fight for justice against what he called the social, economic and political injustices people experienced under the Modi government. He also promised to unveil before the people an alternate agenda based on peace, harmony and prosperity for all. Gandhi, who would be covering about 6,700 kms in over two months across 15 states and 110 districts, said he chose the strife-torn Manipur to start this yatra because «the present state of Manipur symbolises the BJP-RSS politics of hatred.» Addressing a gathering in Manipur, Gandhi said this yatra is for stopping the dictatorial forces in the country, for saving democracy, the constitution and for building the life and career of the future generations and for seeking justice for people from rising unemployment, inflation and growing economic disparities.

Rent the Runway is betting that clothing from designers Diane von Furstenberg and Jason Wu can get customers to keep their subscriptions. Rival clothing subscription service Stitch Fix is staking its future on private brands. The different directions are part of companies’ bids to stem steep subscriber losses in recent months and declines in their stock-market valuations.

Milind's father, Murli Deora and highlighted his leadership and strong association with the Congress party. He said, "He (Murli Deora, father of Milind Deora) was a big leader of our party and he had a friendship with all parties but he was a stalwart Congressman. I remember him today." Jairam Ramesh also spoke with news agency PTI and said that Deora had spoken with him over phone this Friday and requested that he wanted to speak with Rahul Gandhi over his concerns over the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) laying claim to the South Mumbai Lok Sabha seat.

HanuMan Box Office Collection Day 2: HanuMan, starring Teja Sajja in the lead role, saw a 55.65% jump in its Box Office Collection on the second day. The movie collected ₹12.53 crore on the first Saturday. This included ₹8.4 crore from the Telugu version and ₹4.13 crore from the Hindi version.

Arvind Sawant. Deora had said his family represented the seat for 50 years and wasn't elected on any "wave". Earlier in December, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut had said that their talks with the Congress on seat-sharing had to start from zero as the party has "not won any seat" in the state.

stormtroopers. No sooner had the 95-year copyright on the world's most famous rodent, Mickey Mouse, ended earlier this month, a couple of US movie-makers turned the lovable cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks in 1928, into the scary star of two horror films. A YouTube trailer of the first, called Mickey's Mouse Trap, was released scant hours after the expiry of the copyright and showed a human in a Mickey mask terrorising a group of teenagers in an amusement arcade, while the accompanying onscreen text read: 'A place for fun.

Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Saturday said he will not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in view of his age. The 90-year-old JD(S) supremo said he will campaign for candidates in the elections. «I am not contesting the elections.

Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Saturday lamented that injustice has been meted out to Karnataka and only Narendra Modi, «who is set to become Prime Minister again» can solve the Cauvery water problem. The 90-year-old JD(S) patriarch vowed that he would fight for the Cauvery cause till his last breath. At a press conference at the JD(S) party office here, he said only Modi has the power to solve the Cauvery water crisis which Karnataka is facing.

divisions over proposed reforms to the country’s Supreme Court. Some reservists threatened not to serve if the divisive prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and his far-right coalition passed laws weakening the powers of the court. It was one of the army’s most turbulent periods in recent times.

Congress is likely to contest only 255 of the total Lok Sabha seats in the upcoming elections, as per media reports. This would be the lowest number of seats Congress contests the general elections in, since Independence in 1947. With Congress' declining popularity in electoral politics, and alliance with opposition INDIA bloc as a stream to survival and a bid to defeat the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming elections, the grand old party seems to have taken up much of a compromise.

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Israel described the allegations leveled by South Africa as hypocritical and said one of the biggest cases ever to come before an international court reflected a world turned upside down. Israeli leaders defend their air and ground offensive in Gaza as a legitimate response to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, when militants stormed through Israeli communities, killing some 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostage.

another storm.A major snow storm is set to hit several regions in Ontario and Quebec, while many residents in Western Canada fight through a severe cold snap.This latest weather comes after another system hit many parts of Canada earlier in the week; Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City were hit with snowfall Tuesday and Wednesday; the Maritimes also saw snowfall; parts of the West Coast dealt with winter weather before then, while the Prairies faced an extreme cold warning.Expected to start late Friday and into Saturday, parts of Ontario and Quebec are set to see another wallop of snow.Global News meteorologist Ross Hull said a Texas low will be moving into the Great Lakes area, adding the difference with the upcoming storm is that there’s more cold air available that’s building over the Prairies.He said that means there will likely be more snow before a transition to rain, especially for cities such as Toronto, closer to Lake Ontario.“The last system dropped five to 10 centimetres of wet snow for the GTHA. With this one we are anticipating more, but it’s still too early to pin down exact amounts,” Hull said Thursday.“Areas that did experience heavy snow with the most recent system will likely see the heaviest amounts with this latest disturbance too.”Environment Canada is forecasting five to 10 centimetres of snow; Ottawa, which was forecast to get 10 to 15 centimetres of snow earlier in the week, is expected to get 15 to 25 centimetres of snow in this system.

Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who recently fought a high-profile battle against Harvard University, said Friday that he's starting an activist organization to fight antisemitism and reform higher education.

Reuters, “In these circumstances, there can hardly be a charge more false and more malevolent than the allegation against Israel of genocide." ALSO, READ: South Africa drags Israel to UN court over Gaza, here are top developments Israel presented a chilling video and audio to a hushed audience to highlight what happened on 7 October when Hamas attacked the country. “They tortured children in front of parents and parents in front of children, burned people, including infants alive, and systematically raped and mutilated scores of women, men and children," Becker said.

Read more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine war The war has upended the lives of countless Ukrainians, as well as the country’s labour market. Some 4.8m people lost their jobs almost overnight when Russia attacked. Unemployment is estimated to have eased to 18.4% in October this year, from more than 30% in the spring of 2022, but remains well above pre-war levels.

With a strategy that places an emphasis on continuity from the previous year, Ethereum is making steady growth throughout the year 2024, with co-founder Vitalik Buterin serving as the driving force behind this success. A recent sequence of tweets by Buterin reveals that the emphasis for the year 2024 is mainly aligned with the components that have been formed since the beginning of the year: merge, surge, plague, verge, purge, and splurge. This indicates that the strategy for the year is more evolutionary than revolutionary.