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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-19 Vaccine: Where are the crores of doses manufactured, but not administered?

Bharat Biotech claims to have six crore shots ready, only two crore given so far; where are the rest?

Bengali Hindu man released from Assam Detention Camp

CJP helps conch-shell bangle seller get conditional bail and walk out of Goalpara detention camp after two years

GoI claims 577 Covid-orphans, but numbers may far exceed official data: Outreach workers

Considering the number of Covid-death underreporting and rising number of children losing one parent, the situation may be worse than what the figure suggests, says NGO Save The Children.

Covid-19 has spawned more quacks than a duck pond 

A group of doctors and alternative healing therapy practitioners have now written to the PM, asking him to ‘stop Covid-19 vaccination’, while peddling unscientific ‘cures’; thankfully authorities are ignoring them

Covid-19: IMA slaps Rs 1,000 crore notice on Patanjali boss Ramdev 

Indian Medical Association’s (IMA) Uttarakhand branch slaps defamation notice of Rs 1,000 crore on Patanjali boss Ramdev, for derogatory remarks against allopathy 

Covid-19 management and scientific temper

Why we can't let people without a background in science or medicine take charge of the battle against the Coronavirus

Punjab-based Youtuber arrested for “racist and anti-India” video

Paras Singh has been booked by Arunachal police under IPC Sections 124A (Sedition),153A , and 505(2) (promoting enmity)

Whatsapp moves Delhi HC challenging GoI’s traceability clause

The clause requires the messaging platform to identify the originator of a message forwarded multiple times, and Whatsapp sees this as an invasion of privacy, and a form of surveillance

Covid-19: Less than 2 lakh new cases reported for the first time in 40 days

India recorded 1.96 lakh new Covid-19 cases, current Daily Positivity Rate is 9.54% and 3,26,850 recoveries registered

Facebook, Twitter could face legal action in India

Action could be initiated for non-compliance with a February 25 notification that mandated for appointment of certain officials

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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

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