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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

Meet Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, the new Chairperson of Press Council of India

The post was vacant since Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad completed his term in November last year

Centre tightens security against anti-agnipath Bharat Bandh

Trade unions and farmers groups voiced support of the students decrying the Centre’s scheme

CJP Assam Team perseveres despite heavy rains, floods and landslides

Volunteers take precautions, but ensure continuous outreach in order to help socio-economically weak and marginalized people

Adani’s capital Modi’s power in Sri Lanka

A symbiosis of genocidal politics and crony capitalism?

BJP’s Bulldozer is Breaking the Law: Subhashini Ali former MP, Kanpur

The violence in Kanpur on June 3 was sparse & contained, it is only with political diktats that due process of law was trampelled on like in Sahranpur and Prayagraj last fortnight

UP: Long lines for funerals return in Varanasi ghats

Local newspaper report Covid-like atmosphere at crematoriums with multiple bodies on the pyre at once

Over 300 schools run by Falah-e-Aam Trust to be shut in J&K

Students of the Jamaat-e-Islami affiliated organisation’s schools to be absorbed in nearby government schools, but no word on future of teaching and non-teaching staff

Most troubling abuse of YouTube in India involves targeting of Muslims by backers of the BJP: NYU Stern Report

India with 450 million users is the platform’s biggest market, and content creators have been fuelling Islamophobia, finds the report

Hindu Rashtra is the ‘antidote’ to anti-India propaganda, will be realised by 2025: HJS

The ongoing 6-day convention in Goa, June 12-18, has as many as 350 Hindutva organisations, including RSS, participating in the 10th such meet

Minority Kashmiri Hindus fear “something fishy” in South Kashmir

KPSS has appealed to the J&K High Court for a court-monitored a SIT probe into the recent killings

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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