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The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

Victory! CJP helps another Assam woman defend her Indian citizenship before FT

Asiya Bibi of Goalpara had been hounded with three separate FT cases!

Over one crore ration cards cancelled in UP since 2017

Ministry says digitisation has helped weed out duplicate and fake ration cards, but are genuine beneficiaries being deprived of food security?

Agnipath Scheme: Some unanswered questions

Is Agnipath the best solution for the pension problem?

Order in Teesta Setalvad and RB Sreekumar’s bail applications likely to be passed on July 28

Court said it needed time to examine all documents submitted

Census data not for preparing NRC: Home Ministry

This will be the first digital Census, where people will be able to upload their own information via computers and mobile phone apps

No accurate data about illegal foreign nationals: Home Ministry

Ministry says existing laws enough, no refugee policy required

Supreme Court orders release of Mohammed Zubair on interim bail in all UP Police FIRs

The Court moves his cases from UP to Delhi police and scraps SIT

Free Teesta Setalvad: Indian intelligentsia bats for Teesta Setalvad

Highly respected lawyers, academics and journalists have strongly condemned her arrest

Haryana: DPS teacher named in teen’s suicide note to return to teach?

The deceased's mother claims that the Academic Head, who had been charged with abetment to suicide four months ago, is all set to return to her post after getting bail

Review order and withdraw observations against Teesta Setalvad and whistleblowers: CCG to SC

Group of former civil servants asks if constitutional right to approach courts can be treated in so cavalier and revengeful a fashion that the persons seeking justice are put behind bars?

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The Ambedkarite Champ: 15-year-old Vandan Sawai defeats chess great Magnus Carlsen

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

Six-year-old detained during Patna teacher aspirants’ protest, parents allege police assault

Patna Police say the child was ‘rescued’ from a potentially dangerous crowd, while his parents allege that the family was taken to a police station, where they were assaulted and kept for nearly seven hours

The ‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’ Isn’t a Gen Z Uprising. It’s a Rerun

The demand to “remove reservation” is one of the oldest, most recycled slogans in independent India’s political life, and it has failed, in more or less identical form, every single time it has been tried.

112 Years Ago, Raksha Bandhan Stood for Hindu-Muslim Unity

Day after, August 9, 2017 will be 75 years of the Quit India Movement. On August 9, 1942 the Quit India (Chodo Bharat) slogan was given from Mumbai after the Indian National Congress passed the resolution on the agitation on August 7, 1942.

Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions

Pradip Prabhu, who brought hope to the oppressed, is no more

An academic activist, Pradip Prabhu worked among Adivasis as also contributed to academia and path-breaking legislation for indigenous land rights