The Education Department will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a letter imploring the Trump administration to allow frozen education money to be sent to states. President Donald Trump’s administration on July 1 withheld more than $6 billion in federal grants for after-school and…
What led to the $25 million freeze in Maine student grants? Maine schools are facing delays in accessing nearly $25 million in federal education grants, following a nationwide review launched by the Trump administration. The funding pause is part of a broader reassessment of how billions in federal education dollars are distributed across states, with…
NEW DELHI: At a time when criminalisation of politics is on the rise, Supreme Court on Monday expressed surprise when it was told that Tamil Nadu MLA M Jagan Moorthy had no criminal antecedent and that led to the apex court granting him anticipatory bail in a kidnapping case of a boy.“It is a surprise…
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, in partnership with the conservative legal group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), has filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Education, challenging a grant programme that allocates federal funding to colleges where Hispanic students comprise at least 25% of the student population.The legal challenge, filed in the US…
Nikhil Sosale (right) in a photo featuring Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma. Sosale was arrested by local police in the Bengaluru stampede case. The Karnataka High Court on Thursday ordered the interim release of Royal Challengers Bengaluru marketing head Nikhil Sosale and three others from DNA Entertainment Networks Private in connection with the Bengaluru stampede…
The US Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Department of Government Efficiency, a key player in President Donald Trump’s drive to slash the federal workforce, broad access to personal information on millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out. At the request of the Justice Department, the justices…
Stampede outside Chinnaswamy Stadium The Karnataka high court on Friday granted interim conditional relief to office-bearers of the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), after the cricket board moved the high court to quash the FIR registered against its officials in the Chinnaswamy Stadium stampede case.Justice SR Krishna Kumar ordered that no coercive action should be…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to former IAS probationerPuja Khedkar, who is facing allegations of using fake OBC & PwD certificates in the civil services (UPSC) examination. Facing threat of being arrested, she had moved the court for pre-arrest bail in the case.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish…
China will extend its visa-free policy to nationals of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, putting some of Latin America’s largest economies on equal footing with many European and Asian countries as it sought stronger ties with the region. The visa-free arrangement will be effective from June 1 for a year, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson…
The Trump administration said on Tuesday that eight federal agencies will terminate another $450 million in grants to Harvard University, on top of $2.2 billion in federal funding it cancelled last week. An administration antisemitism task force cited what it described as a failure by the elite Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school to confront what it called…