Just did it: Nike's belated apology for discriminating against female athletes

Nike, of course, is not the only corporation to be accused of cutting deals that are biased against the very athletes it works with. A few years ago, Reebok and a popular mixed martial arts promotion company faced severe criticism for signing a deal under which women fighters would be treated unequally and earn significantly less than their male counterparts because of a tiered payment system based on the athletes' tenure. Such a system automatically put even highly-ranked women fighters with years of experience at a disadvantage simply because they had not been allowed to be a part of the company for as long as the men. The irony in such situations is not lost, especially in the case of Nike, which recently released a critically-acclaimed advertisement about women's empowerment. Was the pledge of empowerment hollow, catering to optics rather than meaningful transformation? Athletes who have signed endorsement contracts with large sportswear companies are dependent on them for the bulk of their income. Thus, even though remuneration ought to be based on nothing other than merit, sportspersons are forced to 'agree' to contractual terms that deny them autonomy even in the most personal of choices, such as the decision to give birth. Performance-based contracts must be more balanced and representative of the rights of the product endorsers - in this case, women athletes. Is there then a case for them to mobilize in order to create conditions under which the contracts they sign are rendered more equitable? If so, should sports bodies be brought in to mediate between athletes and corporations? This could be one way of ascertaining that agreements are made on fair terms so that both the generation of profit and the protection of rights are ensured. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://wiznotes.com/UserProfile/tabid/84/userId/187887/Default.aspx

WATCH: Former Zimbabwe cricketer Henry Olonga stuns with audition on The Voice

Olonga last appeared on the international cricket stage in the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup in a Super Six match against Kenya, before he was forced into exile from Zimbabwe in the twilight of his career for protesting against the then country's leader Robert Mugabe and 'the death of democracy in Zimbabwe'. He had worn a black armband as a sign of protest alongside former coach Andy Fowler at the World Cup in South Africa. What a privilege to be able to sing on this amazing stage. It is a far cry from my former life and thank you to England and Australia for adopting me as one of their own and allowing me to explore new horizons #TheVoiceAU pic.twitter.com/NEjg3ddXFF — Henry Olonga (@henryolonga) 27 May 2019 But 16 years later, he has resurfaced just before the 12th edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup by wowing the audience across the globe. Here are some of the best reactions to his act- Just watched @henryolonga on @TheVoiceAU, what a great performance. Good luck Henry! — Darren Lehmann (@darren_lehmann) 27 May 2019 Great Job Bud… loving it..from the first time I heard you sing .. I have always been impressed..@henryolonga . The Blind Auditions: Henry Olonga sings &dhapos;This Is the Moment&dhapos; The Voice… https://t.co/J8pbCrvHO9 via @YouTube — Shaun Pollock (@7polly7) 27 May 2019 This is bloody Fantastic … https://t.co/5WGaGWY7vw — Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) 28 May 2019 'I've been singing a lot of music since I retired from my previous career. I just wanna sing now. Just sing,' said Olonga, who had settled down in the UK for 12 years before moving to Australia permanently with his wife Tara. The 42-year-old is fondly remembered for his battles with Sachin Tendulkar at Sharjah, where he even dismissed the Master Blaster. Olonga had gained major recognition in the 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup where he had claimed three Indian wickets at Leicester, thus helping his team to win the match by just three runs. Wow! #HenryOlonga @sachin_rt sir! Did you know he could do this when he was bowling to you? What a lovely surprise! https://t.co/lACzeNSQUP — Siddharth (@Actor_Siddharth) 28 May 2019 'It's been a long journey for me. It's been about 15 years since I retired and I've been redefining myself with a new path. I had been gigging a lot around the place in England and then in the last few years coming to Australia,' said Olonga. He has two children, Talika and Lianna, after settling in Adelaide since 2016. function catchException() {try{ twitterJSDidLoad(); }catch(e){}} function getAndroidVersion(ua) {ua = (ua || navigator.userAgent).toLowerCase(); var match = ua.match(/android\\s([0-9\\.]*)/);return match ? match[1] : false;}; var versions='4.2.2'; var versionArray=versions.split(',');var currentAndroidVersion=getAndroidVersion();if(versionArray.indexOf(currentAndroidVersion)!=-1){var blocks = document.getElementsByTagName('blockquote'); for(var i = 0; i < blocks.length; i++){blocks[i].innerHTML = '';}}DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://www.avitop.com/cs/members/reetasignaas.aspx

'Inspired' by Jaish, Hizbul Mujahideen tried copycat attack on CRPF convoy in J-K

They were arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police after the attack. An NIA officer said that Mantoo, a PhD student from Central University of Punjab who is believed to be close to the HM commander in South Kashmir, Dr Saifullah, was also confronted last week with overground workers (OGWs) of the outfit, identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Malik, Zakir Hussain Mir, Rafiq Ahmad Magray and Alam Bhat. 'Most of them have claimed they received orders from the top brass of HM that the outfit needs to do something like Jaish did in Pulwama. They locally assembled a bomb using gelatin sticks, urea, ammonium nitrate, LPG cylinders and few other chemicals but it was not a perfect bomb. They say they wanted to gain international headlines so that Pakistan-based leader of HM Syed Salahuddin is praised in that country,' said the NIA officer. The incident happened on March 30, one-and-a-half months after the Pulwama attack, in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed by a Jaish bomber. India responded 12 days later with an air strike on a Jaish facility in Balakot, Pakistan. At several points in those weeks, India and Pakistan were close to war. In the HM attack, a Santro car laden with explosives hit a CRPF bus around 10 am when the convoy was moving from Srinagar to Jammu. Nobody was injured in the incident. 'The Hizbul has not been able to carry out any major attack in Kashmir valley in the last three years since a concerted crackdown by the security forces. Their space has been occupied by JeM, which has mostly Pakistan-based cadres, so HM members were desperate to revive the group by doing something on the same lines. They could not carry it off,' a second NIA officer said. The central anti-terror probe agency is trying to find out if any JeM members were involved in the Banihal attack. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttp://kiredu.ru/UserProfile/tabid/182/userId/44380/Default.aspx

Maoist 'mole' flees cops

The serial blasts had injured three police personnel, prompting an intensive combing operation in the entire region, which provoked a Maoist landmine ambush in nearby Kuchai on Tuesday, injuring 26 policemen. SP Sinha said Shambhu had external wounds on his stomach when he was caught, but when they started to fester, the youth was hospitalised. "He hoodwinked the police to flee from the hospital. We are probing into the incident and have suspended the six policemen deployed with him for dereliction of duty." Shambhu had been admitted to the hospital on May 24 and lodged in the first floor of the G+2 storey building, said a police source. He could have scaled down the hospital. Hunt is on for Shambhu. Seraikela subdivisional police officer Avinash Kumar added that they had also sent a recommendation for disciplinary action against the six policemen, ASI Jai Prakash Yadav, constables Shambhu Kumar, Tirumuni Raimundu, Mangal Murmu, Tarun Chandra Mahto and Mangal Munda. At Tuesday's Kuchai blast site, district police in a joint operation with CoBRA and Jharkhand Jaguar on Wednesday defused IEDs and wires. Combing operations are on, said SP Sinha. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://yarp.com/97101aa65387

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Remembering Omar Khayyam: 10 Rubaiyat by the poet on his birth anniversary

Born on May 18, 1048, in Iran's Nishapur, Khayyam was known for his poetry and verses. He wrote more than a thousand 'Rubaiyat' or verses. Later translated by Edward Fitzgerald, it became popular in the West centuries after his death. He was born into a family of tent-makers (Khayyam). His full name, as it appears in the Arabic sources, was Abu'l Fath Omar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām. The Astronomer, Persian poet and mathematician, Omar Khayyam is known for his contribution in the fields of poetry. Khayyam also worked as an advisor and court astrologer to Malik Shah I in Khorasan province. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://able2know.org/account/profile/

Largest art museum in US to showcase works of Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee

The exhibition is made possible by Nita Ambani, her husband Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and the Reliance Foundation. Born in Mumbai in 1949, Mukherjee studied painting, printmaking, and mural making at the M S University in Baroda, with the influential artist K G Subramanyan, under whose guidance Mukherjee first experimented with fiber. Phenomenal Nature will also present the latter half of Mukherjee's career in the mid-1990s, when, prompted by a residency at the European Ceramics Work Centre in the Netherlands, she began working with ceramics, eventually taking on bronze in 2003. 'Probing the divide between figuration and abstraction, Mukherjee would go on to fashion unusual, mysterious, sensual, and, at times, unsettlingly grotesque forms, commanding in their presence and scale,' the museum said. A committed sculptor who worked intuitively, never resorting to a sketch or preparatory drawing, Mukherjee in her forms explored the divide between figuration and abstraction. She was primarily inspired by nature and this was further informed by her enthusiasm for Indian historic sculpture, modern design, and local crafts and textile traditions. The exhibition will seek to highlight the radical intervention Mukherjee made by adapting crafting techniques with a modernist formalism. The artist's fiber forms are physical and organic. She never worked with a loom; instead, knotting became her primary technique and it imbued her sculptures with three-dimensional volume and a sense of monumentally, the museum said in a release. Mukherjee used natural as well as hand-dyed ropes sourced from a local market in New Delhi, where she lived and worked. The forms she fashioned are replete with sexual imagery, while some of her large anthropomorphic pieces — in which the vegetal, human, and animal coalesce — at times suggest the imagery of classical Indian sculpture. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttps://www.plurk.com/ruheenasazzu

Promoter alert down DHFL

Following this, the BSE sought clarification from DHFL with reference to the news report over lookout notice against DHFL promoters. Replying to the clarification, DHL said that neither the company nor the promoters have received any communication relating to such a notice."Please note that the company and/or its promoter-directors have not received any communication from the authorities regarding issuance of any lookout notice. Apart from this, according to our knowledge, there is no other price-sensitive information under Regulation 30 of the SEBI listing regulations which could have bearing on the share price of the company,'' the company said.DHFL pointed out that it is focussed on getting a strategic partner and building a strategy for its back-to-business growth. The company also denied all allegations of existence of any alleged shell firms."We have fully co-operated with all authorities and we have not received any communication from any authorities in support of any of these allegations," it added.Earlier, investigative news portal Cobrapost had alleged that DHFL through layers of shell companies siphoned off over Rs 31,000 crore of public money through secured and unsecured loans and advances to shell companies, that were related to its own primary stakeholders through their proxies and associates. In March, the company cited a report from an independent audit firm which said that it has not promoted any of the 27 shell companies that were alleged to have siphoned off money. The independent chartered accountant firm T P Ostwal & Associates LLP said in its report that the company has not promoted any of the alleged 26 shell companies that are borrowers.DHFL was recently in the news when its stopped acceptance and renewal of fixed deposits. Reports of a lookout notice being issued against the promoters of DHFL comes after a similar notice was issued to former Jet chairman Naresh Goyal. This circular is issued against a person directing the immigration authorities to ensure that the individual does not leave the country through an airport or seaport. There have been reports of the MCA suggesting more than 20 names against whom the circular could be issued. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://www.aeriagames.com/user/aneeshaass/

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