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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

Covid numbers rise again: Don’t panic, wear your masks!

India’s effective reproduction number (R-value) for Covid-19, has increased to over 1 for the first time since mid-January

Turning Ambedkar into an icon bereft of his principles

Image Courtesy:.thehansindia.comThis 14 April (2022) we will again witness different...

Proposed K-Rail project to wreck Kerala’s fragile ecology

EIA report full of holes, gov’t pushing project through without answering key questions about land acquisition, rehabilitation and deforestation

‘What will it take for the Biden administration to call out Modi’s regime for human rights violations?’: US lawmaker, Ilhan Omar

Eloquently stating that the Modi years have criminalised the act of being Muslim, the Congresswoman from Minnesota likened Modi to Chile’s Pinochet and raised pertinent points on the lurking genocidal climate in India

15 seats in UP Assembly elections won by a margin of less than 1,000 votes: ADR

After SabrangIndia’s early analysis, ADR now says 15 constituencies had a victory margin of less than 1,000 votes

Rajya Sabha Election 2022: 5 seats each for AAP, BJP, two LDF, 1 Congress

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s now has 100 members in the Rajya Sabha

The assault on the National Film Archives and Films Division is an assault on Constitution

The merging of four distinct public bodies under one...

11.03 cr toilets and 3.59 lakh solar pumps built in India: Centre

Opposition challenges data on SBM toilets and other election promises

MPs takes GoI to task on unemployment

After the failure to provide data for 2020, the Centre answered Lok Sabha questions with better figures on the state of jobs in India

MP: Scholar Shamsul Islam’s event cancelled on “gov’t orders”

Shocked by the sudden decision sprung upon organisers, Islam asks what justifies such a move against a research scholar by the state government

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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

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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