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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

Farmers reject Centre’s committed MSP prices

Unions like the AIKS and JKA point out how the suggested prices fail to account for the growing inflation in the economy

Nagaland Killings: Police file case against 30 security personnel

The personnel belonging to the 21 Para (Special Forces) had opened fire upon miners belonging to the Konyak tribe in December

Lalu Prasad Yadav, a lonesome warrior for social justice & against communalism, turns 75

India’s former union railway minister who transformed Indian railways into a profit making entity in justi 5 years, was also a resonant voice against the corrosive inroads of communalism in the 1990s

Spontaneous pan-India protests against Nupur Sharma

Protesters demand strict action against the suspended BJP leader as well as expelled leader Naveen Jindal

New Normal: Increasing incidents of Industrial Accidents, Fire, Blasts & workplace disasters

Dilution of all environmental protection regulations, assiduously fought for coupled with an utter lack of transparency makes Indian workers completely vulnerable, Gujarat leads the way

Threat letter from Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent Issues after BJP Leaders’ Comments

The reported 'warning' statement calls for attacks in Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.

Modi’s eight years: Eight acts of shameful disgrace

Taking stock of how the Modi regime have damaged India’s image across the world

Father Stan Swamy honoured with Martin Ennals Award, the ‘human rights Nobel’

Posthumously, Father Stan Swamy the octonogenrian Jesuit priest who was an outspoken voice for adivasis and the landless, was awarded this singular honour on June 2

78 percent Maharashtra households suffered food insecurity: Hunger Watch II report

As many as 20 percent of surveyed households suffer severe food insecurity, with most deprivations focused in urban areas

Pushback to saffron, three colours, red, blue & black throw out a Madurai Challenge: TN

The colours red, blue and black stood for Marxist, Ambedkarite and Dravidian ideologies, respectively

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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