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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

Badshah Khan an icon of inter-faith harmony: February 6

Complimentary to Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Badshah Khan also played a crucial role in the sub-continent’s movement for sovereignty over the British and commitment to inter-faith Harmony

IIT Bombay E-Summit 2022 faces flak for inviting Arnab Goswami and Sudhir Chaudhary as speakers

Alumni raise concerns about their inclusion in letter to Director, IITB, asking organisers to “reflect and rescind the invitations”

Pegasus scandal: Did GoI engage in an elaborate cover-up?

In wake of the NYT revelations and growing outrage, the Surveillance State has some tough questions to answer

Human Rights violations rampant in UP: PUCL

Report finds UP tops list of states with highest number of incidents of violence against women and Dalits; current government has failed to control the situation over the last five years

Gauri Lankesh’s journalism revealed how Hate was a State project

On her 60th birth anniversary, we pay tribute to her shining light that guides strong, confident women even today, inspiring them to speak up against oppression and injustice

Youth protests for employment see overwhelming response in Bihar

Bihar students and youth flood the street with marches, protests, meetings; protests also took place in some parts of Delhi

UP-Bihar Bandh call after police-student conflict

The ruling regime continues tactics of police violence in response to youth’s demands for jobs

Worrying increase in Hate speech, communal violence in India: US Senator

Democrat Ed Markey was speaking at a Congressional Briefing, said that it was the duty of the US to speak out when fundamental human rights are under attack

Former AASU leader shot at in Assam

Policemen involved in a drug bust shot at Kirti Kamal Bora “in self-defence”, but Bora claims he was out to get medicines for his mother

CEL sale, a threat to national security: Employees

The disinvestment is on hold but employee unions fear the sale of the profit-making PSU to an inexperienced bidder

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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