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The government has invited applications from Indian citizens holding at least a bachelor’s degree to serve as whole-time members of the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) as proposed under the revised Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code, better known as the Information Technology Rules, 2021. Applicants must have worked at a position not lower than two levels below the director of a company or member of a corporate governing body of either a listed entity or a company which has paid up capital of Rs 100…

United States’ lawmakers Friday released Donald Trump’s tax returns after years of battle by the former president to keep his finances private. The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives committee released Mr Trump’s redacted returns for 2015 through 2020, amid preparations for another run at the White House in 2024. The development has triggered reactions from Mr Trump, who criticised the lawmakers. The immediate past US president, who lost his re-election bid after serving a single term between…

The decision of the House Jan. 6 committee to recommend that the Justice Department pursue potential criminal charges against Donald J. Trump is not binding on the department, which in any case is already investigating “whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election” under the leadership of a special counsel.Still, the panel’s recommendation Monday that the department pursue four potential charges against Trump — including inciting, aiding or giving…

The Jan. 6 committee has recommended federal criminal charges against former Chapman University professor John Eastman, former President Trump and others it deems responsible for the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.The committee recommended that Trump and Eastman should face federal criminal charges for obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States. It recommended prosecuting “Trump and others” on two additional charges: conspiracy to make a false statement and inciting,…

The House Jan. 6 select committee announced Thursday that its final hearing will be Dec. 19 at 10 a.m. Pacific, when it will vote to refer cases to the Justice Department, the House Committee on Ethics and other oversight bodies.With the incoming Republican majority set to disband the committee, members will wrap up their work without the help of several key witnesses. Most notably, former President Trump provided nothing in response to the committee’s demands for documents and testimony. Monday’s hearing will serve as a…

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried is set to testify before a US House committee on Tuesday, the cryptocurrency exchange's founder and the congressional panel said on Friday, as regulators investigate his role in the wake of its collapse.The chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, Maxine Waters, told Reuters on Thursday that she was prepared to subpoena Bankman-Fried if he did not agree to appear before the panel, which is holding a hearing as part of its probe into FTX.In a statement late on Friday,…

Reinforcing the gulf between Democrats and Republicans on federal responses to COVID-19, a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives today issued two starkly different reports assessing the performance of U.S. intelligence agencies early in the pandemic. While neither offers much new information, one focuses on how agencies tracked the first days of the outbreak in Wuhan, China, while the other centers on the contentious debate surrounding the origin of the…

Representative Jim Jordan, who will chair the House Judiciary Committee next Congress, gave a hint of what is to come with letters sent to five big tech companies requesting information about conservative material removed from their platforms. In letters sent and seen by Reuters, Jordan requested the top executives at Alphabet's Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Meta's Facebook provide any information they have about contact with President Joe Biden's administration regarding "the moderation, deletion, suppression,…

The meeting of the consultative committee of the Ministry of Civil Aviation was held on Thursday under the chairmanship of Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. The subject of discussion was GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation) system which is a Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS), developed jointly by AAI and ISRO.The meeting was attended by MPs who were informed that GAGAN is a part of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), which takes input from the core GPS (Global Positioning System)…

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of FTX, indicated on Sunday that he is unlikely to testify in the upcoming U.S. House committee’s hearing on the collapse of his crypto exchange, saying he is still “learning and reviewing what happened.” In a tweet to the Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters and the committee, Bankman-Fried, who has been alleged to misappropriate customer funds, suggested he will testify at a later time. The U.S. House Financial Services Committee…