• U.S. government enters a partial government shutdown as Senate works to pass a deal

    WASHINGTON — The federal government entered a partial shutdown early Saturday after Congress failed to pass legislation in time to keep a swath of departments and agencies open. The shutdown is expected to be brief and have little impact, however, as Senate leaders announced they have a deal to vote on a funding package in the early hours of Saturday morning. The House voted Friday morning to pass a $1.2 trillion spending bill funding the departments of State, Defense, Labor, Health and Human...

  • Harsh Jain Aakrit Vaish TEAM Governing Council: Harsh Jain, Aakrit Vaish to chair TEAM governing council

    The Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai (TEAM), a collective of Mumbai-based technology companies, has elected Dream Sports cofounder and CEO Harsh Jain and Haptik CEO Aakrit Vaish to chair its eight-member governing council in its inaugural elections starting from April 1 for a two-year term.Other members of the newly elected governing council include Vishal Gondal, cofounder and CEO of GOQii; Dhruvil Sanghvi, founder and CEO of LogiNext; Akanksha Hazari, founder and CEO of LoveLocal;...

  • The things government should not do

    Our increasing government dependency means we now rely more than ever on elected representatives to fix all problems—large, small and even non-existent. Once upon a time, the Republican philosophy was for less government, but the populist overtake of the GOP means the trend is now toward activism. We saw this during the recently completed session

  • Government to digitalise education sector

    By Brandon Josphat [email protected] IN AN effort to address disparities in terms of internet connectivity between urban and rural schools, the government To access this post, you must purchase a subscription. Please click the button below to visit our subscriptions page to select a package. Subscriptions

  • How to turn off emergency government alerts on iPhone

    By default, your iPhone will have government alerts activated, allowing you to receive a notification whenever a nation-wide threat or emergency has been declared. When the government alert is activated, your iPhone will make a sound and vibrate for around 10 seconds. Even putting your iPhone into silent mode won't prevent your phone from making a noise. We recommend keeping this government alert activated on your phone in case of an emergency, but you may be tempted to switch it off...

  • West Papua: The Torture Mode Of Governance

    Budi Hernawan said it ten years ago: “torture in Papua has become a mode of governance.” It hasn’t stopped. It’s got worse. It’s got worse precisely because it’s a mode of governance accepted and blessed by the international “community” whose neoliberal politics of extraction means extermination of anything and anyone getting in its way. More

  • 20 Movies That Only Happen Because the Characters Are Idiots

    In ‘Gremlins,’ everybody should’ve just followed the rules

  • Could corruption bring down Spain’s government again?

    Just four months into its second term, Spain’s Socialist-led government is already mired in corruption allegations. The latest scandal emerged…What to read next: Don’t blame health and safety for killing the Harry Potter steam train | Putin is as deluded about the Islamist threat as the West | The hounding of Kate was a new low for Britain | Who will Putin blame for the terror attack?

  • Eco idiots glued themselves to the wrong tankers!

    Blundering eco warriors broke into an oil depot and glued ­themselves to two defunct tankers which had not been used for years, a court heard.

  • Letter to the editor: The people guide the government

    During recent oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri, attorneys representing petitioners Missouri and Louisiana claimed that the federal government had violated First Amendment protections by pressuring social media companies to censor conservative criticisms of Biden administration policies (“Supreme Court faces decision on feds strong-arming social media,” web, March 14).

  • Albanese government making people homeless

    ‘We have a government that is literally making people homeless,’ says unconventional economist, Leith Van Onselen, who is often on…What to read next: Power to the people | Victory of the people over the elites | Albanese’s accelerated decline | Making work optional

  • Government pushes for quality assurance Bill

    By Brandon Josphat [email protected] THE government has come up with principles of the Standards Bill that will create the Standards Institute of To access this post, you must purchase a subscription. Please click the button below to visit our subscriptions page to select a package. Subscriptions