Indian chess player Divya Deshmukh has alleged that she endured sexist behaviour from spectators at the recently-concluded Tata Steel Masters in Wijk Aan Zee, Netherlands, saying they “focussed on irrelevant things like her hair, clothes and accent” during the tournament. The 18-year-old International Master from Nagpur, who won the Asian women’s chess championship last year, shared a lengthy social media …
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently quashed an order for detention while observing that detention in preventive custody on the basis of such vague and ambiguous grounds of detention cannot be justified. Petitioner submitted that the allegations made in the grounds of detention are vague and indefinite and no prudent man can make an effective representation against these allegations …
The all-India strike on March 28 and 29, called by a bunch of trade unions, is extremely unfortunate. The cause mentioned by the unionists — the Narendra Modi government’s policies which are “affecting workers, farmers, and people” — is as phony as their concern for workers, farmers, and people. “The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions had held a meeting …
