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After seeing glory in Chess tournaments across the word, the All India Chess Federation (AICF) may be witnessing a major loss and and even more major embarrassment: The ‘Nona Gaprindashvili Cup’, which is awarded to the best-performing contingent at the Chess Olympiad, is learnt to have been misplaced by the administrative body! We won the competition but may have lost the cup… literally. You decide if that’s a win!
But moving on, our weekend edition of the Expresso includes:
🚨 Big Story
“Unconstitutional!”: In a setback to the Centre, the Bombay High Court on Friday struck down a key provision in the amended Information Technology (IT) rules, which empowered the Government to identify “fake news” on online platforms through a Fact Check Unit (FCU). The court called the amendment “unconstitutional”.
Throwback: as per the IT rules amended in April 2023, content marked by the FCU as “fake or misleading” would have to be taken down by online intermediaries if they wished to retain legal immunity against third-party content.
How did we get here?: After a split verdict on pleas against the amended rules by a two-judge division bench on January 31, a third judge, Justice Atul S Chandurkar, gave the deciding opinion on the matter. Justice Chandurkar observed that the rule was beyond the powers of the IT Act.
A red line is drawn: In striking down the FCU as “vague”, and a “disproportionate” incursion on free speech, the Bombay High Court has drawn a red line on Government regulation of online speech.
To know more about what transpired in court, and why a third judge was called in, you can take a look at our explainer here.
⚡Only in Express
Dangal 2.0: Vinesh Phogat is many things to many people: the face of Indian wrestling and the face of a massive protest. But for the women of Haryana’s Julana Assembly constituency, she is what they want their young girls to be — fearless. Indian Express’ Sandeep Dwivedi and Nihal Koshie join the Olympian on her campaign trail, as she looks to face a different kind of fight.
✍🏽 Express Opinion
“Breathless headlines declare that this is the highest number of women shortlisted in the Booker’s 55-year history, but a cursory glance at the prize’s website reveals that women — and certainly White women — have been well represented from the award’s inception.”
In our Opinion pages today, Parvati Sharma takes a critical look at the female-dominated Booker Prize shortlist, and says that it may not be the good news it seems.
👉 Express Explained
Astronomers need some space from Elon Musk. The starlink ‘constellation”, consisting of over 6,300 working satellites orbiting the Earth, are creating “radio noise” and impeding the work of radio astronomers observing the sky from Earth.
🍿 Movie Review
Another weekend, another movie review… and another cops-and-robbers story on screen. Indian Express’ Shubhra Gupta watched Siddhant Chaturvedi actioner ‘Yudhra’, which, she says “manages to make some resets but also succumbs to jadedness on multiple scores.”
That’s all for today.
Until next time,
Ayesha Jain
