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Chevron will sell its current global headquarters in California and offers workers to move to Texas. 

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This BBC story of a LNG terminal at a Baltic seaport shows how Poland is coping with the cutoff of Russian gas supplies.

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The reasoning behind the decision on abortions of the US Supreme Court is shown here in the NYT using the majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito Jr. He uses the guiding principle that the right to abortion cannot be found in the Constitution of the United States. He uses a legal approach of looking for the original intent of the framers of the Constitution.  This involves scrutinizing the original document to look for wording of intent.

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The Swedish brand H&M has closed about a third of its stores in China after it shifted to responsible sourcing and avoided Xinjiang forced labor product sourced in China. Chinese buyers boycotted the stores. The H&M store that first opened in Shanghai 15 years ago is now closed.

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Parmeswaran Iyer headed two of prime minister Modi's favorite projects, one for ODI free India through the Swachh Bharat Clean India Mission, and second the Jal Jeeven Drinking Water for All mission. In both he has performed admirably. He is an IAS officer from 1981 from Uttar Pradesh batch and worked with the World Bank water initiatives from 2009 when Modi brought him back to India for Swacch Bharat Mission. Har Ghar Jal to bring water by tap to every family in India is an exceptional achievement of Modi and Iyer.  This report in Hindustan Times shows how hands on Iyer is, as it says Iyer cleaned a toilet pit during one visit to Telengana state in 2017. The behavioural transformation India experienced under people like Modi and Iyer takes India back to the days of the Gandhi Ashram on the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad. Gandhi's activity there including a form of Swachh Bharat Mission in its pioneering days in the 1920's setting the form of activity that was not forgotten and brought back by Modi and Iyer one hundred years later. This has touched the lives of hundreds of millions of Indians today in the way Gandhi's ideas touched the lives of hundreds of millions in the 1920's, bringing dignity and grace to the faces of 1.4 billion people and providing an example for the extended neighborhood to Indonesia for close to 2 billion people. ...

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Parmeswaran Iyer takes over India's development planning body Niti Aayog from Amitabh Kant on June 30. Iyer joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1981. He led the Swachh Bharat or Clean India Mission in 2016, and headed the national drinking water and sanitation department. In 2009 he left IAS to join the World Bank as Global Lead for Water Global Practice initiatives. He has also served as Professor of Management Practice at the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad. 

The Modi administration has selected a person in the right field of water resources with IAS background from Uttar Pradesh, and proven management ability to deliver results, for the critical task of leading India's development to 2030.