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Time of India
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Stop eviction drives conducted sans due process, CLP urges guv
1 2 3 Guwahati: Assam's Congress Legislature Party (CLP) members on Saturday met governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya at the Raj Bhawan here and submitted a memorandum seeking his intervention to halt the ongoing and proposed eviction drives allegedly affecting indigenous, tribal, and erosion-displaced communities. In their memorandum, the opposition members said "The incidents of eviction transgresse the provisions of the Forest Rights Act 2006, the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA 1996), Chapter X (Protect Land Rights in Tribal Belts/Blocks) of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886, Assam (Temporarily Settled Tenancy Areas) Act 1971 and landmark decisions by the Supreme Court." The CLP delegation also demanded that an independent commission of inquiry be constituted for probe into all evictions conducted since 2022, with a special focus on Sixth Schedule districts and tribal belt and block protections. "Direct the Govt of Assam to publish a comprehensive land rights regularisation policy, clearly distinguishing long-settled indigenous occupants from speculative encroachers," they said in the memorandum, added that legal and humane rehabilitation measures must be ensured in line with constitutional morality and India's obligations under the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. "The people of Assam — especially its tribals, erosion-displaced citizens, and indigenous communities — look to your office as the constitutional conscience of the state. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 5 Books Warren Buffett Wants You to Read In 2025 Blinkist: Warren Buffett's Reading List Undo These eviction drives, conducted without due process or consent in the name of "development", threaten to dispossess the very people whose land rights the Constitution seeks to uphold," the memorandum read. They also submitted a "People's Charter for Humane and Lawful Eviction Policy in Assam" which "outlines urgent reforms that uphold constitutional values, protect marginalised communities, and promote accountability". The charter includes establishment of a state-wide eviction protocol, mandatory rehabilitation and resettlement framework, suspension of all evictions without due process, setting up of a legal aid and grievance redress platform and creation of a multi-stakeholder eviction review board.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
WTA Enlists Gauff, Osaka to ‘Rally the World' for Brand Refresh
The WTA has unveiled a new brand identity to signal a fresh chapter in its storied history. The tour's commercial arm WTA Ventures developed a new logo and slogan—'Rally the World'—to bring greater brand awareness to the tour and its athletes, designed in concert with London-based agencies ChapterX and Nomad Studio. A new linear and digital ad campaign, with 30- and 60-second ads produced by creative agency Brothers & Sisters, will feature women's tennis stars Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka, Ons Jabeur, Aryna Sabalenka and Zheng Qinwen. The campaign will present the traditional tennis court not as a field of play, but as a stage for the game's talents to perform and express themselves. More from No Women Among 100 Highest-Paid Athletes Despite Business Gains Sporticast 403: Female Athletes With Earnings Ready to Spike Highest-Paid Female Athletes 2024: Coco, Caitlin and Korda Soar The tour's new branding, which includes updated graphics for the WTA's global broadcasts outside of the Grand Slams, will make its debut at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells beginning on March 2. WTA Ventures chief brand officer Sarah Swanson said the tour set out on a rebrand because its previous presentation wasn't strong enough in market. 'It didn't match the legacy of the WTA and the power of our athletes and women's tennis,' she said in a Zoom interview. In 2024, the WNBA, NWSL, NCAA women's basketball, volleyball and other competitions set viewership and attendance records. Swanson sees the WTA's brand redesign as a huge opportunity to bring it in line with those leagues. 'Team sports have a league mentality that inherently creates a stronger brand,' she said. 'Individual sports have more of a challenge. But the power of tennis and our players is so strong that it just sort of felt wrong to me that the platform that was creating the ability for these players to be so successful wasn't sort of getting the recognition.' That reasoning also dovetails with the tour's objective to show that it's not just the organizing body for women's tennis, but also a global entertainment brand that can stand alongside other sports leagues. 'Part of this shift in the brand was thinking of ourselves that way, but then presenting ourselves that way,' Swanson said. 'And we're certainly looking at how to continue to shift the way that we produce the sport, so that we're taking cues from some of the best kind of sports and entertainment properties out there, like the NFL, the NBA, the Premier League.' Swanson noted that in addition to their play, the athletes selected for the ad spot were considered for a wide range of reasons: Sabalenka's rise to become the world's top player, Osaka's honesty about life on and off the court, the global diversity from Tunisia's Jabeur and China's Zheng, and Gauff's ascension as a role model for American girls. Such storytelling has pulled in millions of fans around the world. In 2024, the WTA had a 15% lift in on-site attendance while its global audience grew by 10% to 1.1 billion viewers on linear and digital platforms. The tour's social media following also leaped by 25% across all platforms. The new brand campaign arrives three months after the tour hosted its finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the first time in December after the WTA signed a sponsorship pact with the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund, PIF, last May. The two sides were in talks to bring the WTA Finals to Saudi Arabia in 2023, but the tour pulled back due to public pressure for planning to host an event in a country with a history of repressive laws against women. Swanson said the decision to go to Saudi Arabia the following year was a thoughtful one and that the players' collective response was positive, with many believing they can be ambassadors for the sport there. 'You know that the brand purpose we landed on is this idea of 'Rally the World,' but the full wording is 'Rally the World to Break Boundaries,'' Swanson said. 'Billie Jean King founded this brand, this league, on the idea of creating opportunity for, particularly women and girls anywhere, to be an athlete. The decisions that we are making now are very much in that same vein.' Commercial opportunities continue to grow for women's sports, even though no female athlete ranked in Sportico's top 100 highest-paid athletes of 2024. Nine of the 15 highest-earning female athletes come from the WTA Tour, with Gauff ranking as the highest-paid woman in all of sports last year with $30.4 million. Zheng, who is viewed as having a Yao Ming-like marketing impact, pulled in $20.6 million as the fourth highest-earning female athlete, followed by Sabalenka ($17.7M) and Osaka ($15.9M). Best of MLS Franchise Valuations Ranking List: From LAFC to CF Montréal Tennis Prize Money Tracker: Which Player Has Earned the Most in 2025? Who Is Josh Harris, the Washington Commanders' Owner?
