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Chancellor seeks report, Syndicate to discuss matter first

Edit Indian Express 25 Apr 2016
A special committee has now been constituted by the varsity to look into the implementation of the 2006 UGC Guidelines for provision of reservation to SC/ST students and teachers in the Panjab University Senate and Syndicate ... ‘Implement SC/ST reservation policy in upcoming Senate polls’ Panjab University Syndicate approves 5 pc fee hike for arts, science, commerce courses Panjab University’s committee against sexual harassment....

Give MPs financial oversight of senators' spending

Edit Toronto Sun 25 Apr 2016
OTTAWA - The just-concluded trial of Mike Duffy showed us some egregious examples of senatorial excess but Duffy was just one of dozens of current and former senators who felt entitled to their entitlements ... Given several examples of expense claims by senators, classify each as legitimate or not ... The senate should strike a special committee to study that idea. Perhaps they can invite Senator Duffy to join that committee....

House, Senate nearing deal on Arizona budget

Edit The Roanoke Times 25 Apr 2016
PHOENIX (AP) — Republican leaders of the Arizona House and Senate spent long hours in the past week behind closed doors with Gov. Doug Ducey's representatives hashing out details of a budget deal that ... ....

De Blasio is a liar who’s put City Hall up for sale

Edit New York Post 25 Apr 2016
Friday brought news of the state Board of Elections criminal referral over Team de Blasio’s end-running of state campaign law in its failed 2014 bid to win control of the state Senate for allied Democrats. It seems City Hall ordered donations to upstate party committees in order for the cash to be handed on to its favored candidates — and some checks even had “donation per Mayor” in the memo line....

De Blasio’s attorney isn’t happy over ‘criminal’ fundraising leak

Edit New York Post 25 Apr 2016
Mayor de Blasio’s longtime election lawyer lashed out Sunday over the leak of a damning government memo alleging criminality in Hizzoner’s fund-raising efforts for a failed, Democratic bid to seize control of the state Senate in 2014 ... (sic) New York State senators elected in 2014 to achieve a democratic (sic) majority in the senate,” Sugarman wrote....

Analysis: Can't do taxes? Lawmakers weigh fees to fill gaps

Edit The Oklahoman 25 Apr 2016
(AP) — Prohibitions against considering taxes in the current legislative session haven't slowed all efforts to raise revenue to patch together next year's budget ... That money could fill at least some gaps in next year's budget, which is estimated to be short $750 million to continue all services and programs in the year that begins July 1....

RTC finds a way to minimise loss in TS

Edit The Hindu 25 Apr 2016
Although Telangana is among 11 revenue surplus States out of 17 non-special category ones, its aggregate expenditure on the all-important education sector is at the rock bottom – 17{+t}{+h}position – with only 10 per cent of the total budget estimates spent on it ... and 16.9 p.c., respectively, spending out of their budget on it ... of the total budget estimates on it....

Exhibit One in Any Future American War Crimes Trial

Edit Antiwar 25 Apr 2016
The December 2014 torture report produced by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (despite CIA opposition that included hacking into the committee’s computers) described the situation this way ... At one point during this endlessly repeated ordeal, the Senate committee reported that Zubaydah became “completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth.”....

Maharashtra government set to introduce gender budgeting

Edit DNA India 25 Apr 2016
Maharashtra government is set to introduce "gender budgeting" that will ensure 50% benefit of gender neutral schemes to reach women. The women and child development department is scheduled to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UNICEF women and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for working out on the detailed budget plan ... What is gender budgeting?....

Representing the South Side in Springfield at HIV Advocacy Days (AIDS Foundation of Chicago)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
I was nervous, because this was my first time having a chance to potentially meet face-to-face with my legislators, Representative (and Majority Leader) Barbara Flynn Currie and Senator Kwame Raoul ... Our group leaders organized us, and we all had a game plan to meet our legislators either in their offices or on 'the rail,' which is a brass partition around the grand doors to the House and Senate chambers....

Carol Marin: She opened her heart to the daughter she killed

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 25 Apr 2016
Follow @CarolMarin. Bonnie Liltz is shockingly thin. We met for the first time on Thursday. The 55-year-old Schaumburg mother was trying to navigate the Rolling Meadows courthouse to find the right office to report to before the 9 a.m ... Bruce Rauner vetoed the budget Democrats sent him that was $4 billion short ... Senator Tom Harkin. This week Harkin told Chicago’s City Club, “I don’t know too much about your budget problems ... ....

Favreau’s ‘The Jungle Book’ Is Killin’ It At The Box Office

Edit Inquisitr 25 Apr 2016
For a film with a budget of $175 million, grossing nearly all of the budget in a weekend bodes well ... This would mean that Jungle has not only passed its budget, but demolished it in flying colors by a whole $350 million ... Bad joke, sorry.) With a budget of $115 million, the film only grossed $20.1 million in its opening week, and has made a total of $100.3 million at the box office currently....

Traders seek higher tax rebate

Edit The Times of India 25 Apr 2016
Cut up with announcement in the state budget 2016 on search and seizures operations and subsequent transaction-related action, tax consultants and traders' of city will meet on April 28 to decide future course of action ... Finance minister Jayant Malaiya had announced in the budget that tax rebate for ......
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