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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: Karnataka unable to dispose of the dead, even as people struggle to survive

The capital city is running out of space to cremate/bury their dead and the medical infrastructure is crumbling

Adar Poonawalla is in Britain ‘on business’, but is that the only reason?

Serum Institute chief leaves India allegedly to escape 'threats' from ‘biggies’; Poonawalla says he will return, but hints at vaccine production overseas

Indians pay as Centre ignored warning of Covid-19 variants by experts

Despite a warning of a disaster in the making, four scientists and a researcher told both the Telegraph and Reuters that the government did not seek to impose major restrictions to stop the spread of the virus

Bhima Koregaon case: NIA attempts to dismiss Arsenal’s findings about Rona Wilson’s laptop

The US digital forensics firm had found that malware had been planted on Wilson’s laptop in a bid to falsify evidence

How many Indian adults will manage to get the Covid-19 vaccine on May 1?

Health Minister is happy registrations happened, sms went out, but states have already alerted that they may not have enough stocks to start vaccination on May 1

Former Attorney General, Soli Sorabjee, succumbs to Covid-19

He was 91-year-old and will be remembered as a legal eagle, Padma Vibhushan recipient, and a lover of jazz 

Maha govt floats global tender to procure oxygen and Remdesivir

The state government will begin looking into bidders demands for medical supplies April 30 while submissions may continue till May 10.

Covid-19: Scientists revise peak predictions upwards to 38-48 lakh cases in mid-May

Meanwhile, government remains remorseless, even as the healthcare infrastructure struggles to keep up

Anger simmers as bodies pile up outside crematoria in Gujarat

Mismanagement of oxygen and life-saving drugs adds to people’s woes as the Rupani administration, and by extension the Modi regime come under fire for apathy and ineptitude

Twitter removes posts critical of gov’t handling of Covid-19 emergency

The suspended accounts are of activists, politicians, who which have called out the way the government has let the Covid-19 crisis worsen

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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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