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2025	Mimamsa-IISER IISc Bangalore wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with IIT Bombay and IISER Kolkata taking second and third places respectively.
May 2025	Mimamsa-IISER Preparations for Mimamsa'26 science competition are currently in progress.
April 8 2025	Associated Press Judge Trevor McFadden ruled that the White House must lift access restrictions on the AP while the AP v. Budowich lawsuit proceeds.
March 2025	Mimamsa-IISER Mimamsa'25 science competition was completed in March.
February 24 2025	Associated Press A federal judge declined to issue an immediate order compelling the White House to reinstate AP's access to presidential events, with the White House maintaining that press access is a privilege, not a legal right.
February 21 2025	Associated Press The Associated Press filed a lawsuit (Associated Press v. Budowich) against the Trump administration for blocking their attendance at presidential events.
2024	Mimamsa-IISER IIT Bombay wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with IIT Delhi and IISc Bangalore taking second and third places respectively.
2024	Associated Press The Associated Press won an Oscar for the documentary '20 Days in Mariupol', a first-person account of the early stages of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
June 2024	Associated Press Axios reported that the Associated Press plans to launch a nonprofit aimed at expanding state and local news coverage, with the goal of raising $100 million in funding.
May 2024	Associated Press Israeli officials seized Associated Press equipment broadcasting a live stream of Northern Gaza from Sderot, as part of a ban on Al Jazeera Media in Israel. The equipment seizure was condemned by journalism organizations, Israeli opposition politicians, and US government officials.
March 25 2024	Associated Press Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, announced it would stop using AP content, with AP expressing shock and disappointment.
April 2023	Mimamsa-IISER Finals of Mimamsa-IISER were held at the IISER Pune campus. IISc Bangalore emerged as the winner, with IIT Delhi and IIT Madras securing first and second runner-up positions respectively.
January 29 2023	Mimamsa-IISER Mimamsa-IISER prelims were held virtually in a remote-proctored mode, with the top 4 qualifying teams moving forward to the finals.
2022	Mimamsa-IISER IIT Madras wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with IISc Bengaluru and IISER Kolkata taking second and third places respectively.
April 2022	Associated Press Gracia C. Martore, former president and CEO of Tegna, Inc., was elected as the chairperson of the Associated Press board of directors.
February 24 2022	Associated Press AP promoted an NFT on Twitter featuring an aerial shot of an overcrowded migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea, which sparked significant negative backlash from users and journalists who accused the organization of profiting from human suffering.
January 10 2022	Associated Press Associated Press announced plans to start selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their photographs in partnership with Xooa, aiming to use proceeds to fund their operations.
2021	Mimamsa-IISER IISc Bengaluru wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with IIT Delhi and IIT Madras taking second and third places respectively.
June 8 2021	Associated Press Israeli Ambassador to the US Gilad Erdan met with AP CEO Gary Pruitt and VP for foreign news Ian Phillips to discuss the building's destruction, claiming Hamas intelligence used the site for electronic warfare operations. The AP maintained they had not received supporting evidence.
May 2021	Associated Press Associated Press launched a review of its social media policies following controversy over the termination of journalist Emily Wilder, who was fired after expressing pro-Palestinian views on social media. Some AP journalists signed a letter expressing concern about her termination.
May 17 2021	Associated Press US Secretary of State Antony Blinken commented that he had not seen evidence of Hamas operations in the AP and Al Jazeera building, while acknowledging intelligence matters are handled by others.
May 16 2021	Associated Press AP CEO Gary Pruitt released a statement after the Israeli army destroyed the al-Jalaa Highrise housing the Associated Press Gaza offices, stating he had no indication Hamas was in the building and expressing concern about reduced reporting from Gaza.
March 14 2021	Mimamsa-IISER Mimamsa-IISER preliminary round conducted online across 20 zones throughout India.
2020	Mimamsa-IISER IISc Bengaluru wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with IISER Kolkata and IIT Bombay taking second and third places respectively.
May 2020	Associated Press Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand of the AP were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, a decision that sparked controversy due to its portrayal of Kashmir.
2019	Mimamsa-IISER IISc Bengaluru wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi taking second and third places respectively.
2018	Mimamsa-IISER Poster presentation round was introduced to the Mimamsa-IISER competition, allowing teams to present posters on topics of their choosing.
2018	Mimamsa-IISER IISc Bengaluru wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with IIT Bombay and IISER Kolkata taking second and third places respectively.
2018	Associated Press The AP unveiled AP Votecast to replace exit polls for the 2018 US midterm elections.
2017	Mimamsa-IISER IIT Bombay wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with IIT Madras taking second place.
2017	Associated Press The AP moved its headquarters to 200 Liberty Street, New York City.
2017	Keep Cool KEEP COOL mobil was awarded the Comenius-EduMedia-Siegel for high-quality educational media.
2017	Keep Cool Jasper Meya received the German Simulation and Gaming Award for an empirical study on the effectiveness of the board game KEEP COOL in teaching climate change.
2016	Mimamsa-IISER IISc Bengaluru wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with IIT Bombay and IIT Madras taking second and third places respectively.
2016	Keep Cool The German Council for Sustainable Development awarded KEEP COOL mobil with the quality seal Werkstatt N.
2016	Keep Cool KEEP COOL mobil was awarded the Comenius-EduMedia-Siegel for high-quality educational media.
2015	Mimamsa-IISER IISc Bengaluru wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with IIT Madras taking second place.
2014	Mimamsa-IISER IISc Bengaluru wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with St. Xavier's College, Kolkata taking second place.
2013	Mimamsa-IISER IISc Bengaluru wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with NISER Bhubaneswar, BITS Pilani Hyderabad, and St. Xavier's College, Kolkata taking second, third, and fourth places respectively.
2012	Mimamsa-IISER IISc Bengaluru wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with IIT Kanpur, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, and St. Joseph's College, Bengaluru taking second, third, and fourth places respectively.
2012	Associated Press Gary B. Pruitt succeeded Tom Curley to become president and CEO, becoming the 13th leader of the AP in its 166-year history.
2011	Mimamsa-IISER Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with Fergusson College, Pune taking second place.
2010	Mimamsa-IISER Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Pune wins first place in the Mimamsa competition, with Fergusson College, Pune taking second place.
2010	Associated Press The AP launched multi-device World Cup Soccer Applications providing real-time news coverage on desktop, Apple, and Android devices.

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