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The Senate is due to hold a trial to consider whether Trump should be removed from office after the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted in December to impeach the president for pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election. … [Read more...] about Senate should set aside witness dispute and start impeachment trial, says majority leader McConnell

Antisocial by Andrew Marantz Andrew Marantz, a writer for The New Yorker, sought to find out what the internet was doing to our brains. In his search, he ended up in some of the darkest corners of the web. His book explores how white supremacists and anti-Semites came to dominate public conversation, partially framed around a concept called the Overton Window. The Overton Window represents ideas that society has already come to accept, acting as a way to conceptualize society’s headspace at any given moment. Outside the window are unacceptable, radical ideas. Today, the Overton Window has been heavily adopted by online extremists as a way to push American views in a direction that might once have been considered unthinkable. Marantz’s book looks deeply at these groups, so his audience can understand them, in the hopes that ultimately something can change. … [Read more...] about 8 books on technology you should read in 2020

The Jawaharlal Nehru University administration said students agitating over the hike in hostel fees "ransacked" the server room and "intimidated" the technical staff on Saturday, hampering the semester registration process. But JNUSU said the administration used "masked" security guards to attack students. … [Read more...] about JNU admin says students ransacked server room; JNUSU says ‘masked’ security guards attacked them

Some of the most salient additions to our dictionary this year were terms inclusive of trans and nonbinary people, such as womxn, an alternative spelling of women used especially to include trans and nonbinary women. The letter X, as a gender-neutral and nonbinary marker, also appears in Latinx and Chicanx, respectively used for people of Latin American and Mexican American descent. … [Read more...] about Dictionary.com chooses ‘existential’ as 2019’s word of the year

Except for the LIC-IDBI bank deal (which wasn’t privatisation in a true sense), there has been no attempt to sell off the weak state-run banks and get private investors on board. Till the time, the government refuses to bite the bullet, the onus is on the state to keep filling the funding void in state-run banks. Period.Get access to India's fastest growing financial subscriptions service Moneycontrol Pro for as little as Rs 599 for first year. Use the code "GETPRO". Moneycontrol Pro offers you all the information you need for wealth creation including actionable investment ideas, independent research and insights & analysis For more information, check out the Moneycontrol website or mobile app. … [Read more...] about Having spent Rs 2.8 lakh crore, govt should not starve PSU banks for capital at this stage