Business
Seven protesters, including current and former employees, entered Microsoft’s Building 34 and occupied the office of company president Brad Smith. The group, linked to the activist collective “No Azure for Apartheid,” staged a sit-in demanding Microsoft end its ties with the Israeli government. Security Breach Prompts Building Lockdown The demonstrators live-streamed the
National Politics
Dozens of opposition lawmakers, including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, were briefly detained during a protest in New Delhi on Monday. The demonstration was organised to oppose a major revision of the electoral roll in Bihar, with opposition parties alleging the move could disenfranchise millions of poor and minority voters. Protest Over Electoral Roll Changes Protesters
National
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday accused Congress and other opposition parties of staging protests over Bihar’s voter roll revision as a “well thought out strategy to create anarchy and instability in the country.” He called their “vote theft” allegations against the BJP and the Election Commission baseless and politically motivated. Protesters
International
A group of protesters gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Malaysia’s capital on Friday to oppose the nomination of Nick Adams as the next American ambassador to the country. Adams, a conservative commentator originally from Australia and now a U.S. citizen, has drawn criticism for past remarks perceived as anti-Islamic and for strongly backing Israel’s […]
National Politics
BJP MLAs in Jammu staged a protest outside the Civil Secretariat on July 14, opposing the government’s decision to make Urdu a compulsory language requirement for the Naib Tehsildar recruitment examination. The legislators demanded that the order be rolled back, arguing that it discriminates against aspirants from non-Urdu-speaking regions of the Union Territory. BJP