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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

Pandits are being used by people, some of whom look down upon Kashmiris: Kashmiri IAS officer

Sudha Koul Kashmir’s first woman IAS officer talks of peace and why she does not agree with the divisive The Kashmir Files

Assam: Could exclusion from NRC could lead to cancellation of Aadhaar?

State government and AASU representatives agree that NRC and Aadhaar are separate, but it will be revoked for those who will be excluded from final NRC; the present NRC is not acceptable to them

MP: ATS arrests four Bangladeshis

Right-wing uses the news to further hate against Muslims

India ranks high in cumulative excess Covid-deaths: Lancet report

A global report looking at excess deaths during the pandemic period put India in a harsh light

Even in a BJP ‘wave’, UP voters blew out many flames of hate

Many hate mongers, Hindutva harliners, including those accused in Muzzafarnagar riots cases, tasted defeat on their home turfs

Who’s afraid of the exit polls, anyway?

The “predictions” on TV will not matter later this week, but they have sent pulses racing, and anxieties mount

BREAKING: Officer Suspended in Varanasi after Akhilesh Yadav’s allegations

An as yet unidentified “officer” has reportedly been suspended following the "EVM Chori" allegation video posted by Akhilesh Yadav

Crime and Punishment: Is the Indian Justice System Impartial?

Communal violence which began during colonial period has by now assumed the form of a majoritarian violence directed against religious minorities

Assembly polls: 40,395 model code of conduct violations lodged with EC

Election Commission of India received 47,393 complaints on MCC violation between February 10 and March 7

UP Assembly Elections: Phase 7 turnout just over 54 percent

EC data at 5 P.M shows that none of the districts crossed 60 percent in terms of turnout

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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