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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

Martyrdom Day brings together Jawaans and Kisans

Farmer leaders thank young leaders and participants for supporting the country’s peasants by promising solidarity to the movement

No Bharat Ratna for Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, Please!

Demands are often made to the government for posthumous conferment of India’s highest civilian honour upon Dr. Lohia

Covid-19: 46,951 new cases registered in the last 24 hours

Centre directs Uttarakhand to follow stringent SOPs during Kumbh Mela, state CM, LS speaker test positive

Saradha scam: CBI raids six locations in Mumbai

Raids at homes and offices of SEBI officials connected with the Ponzi scheme that rocked West Bengal; timing curious as polling begins in a few days

India seals all entry points along Myanmar border

Mizoram CM Zoramthanga holds virtual meet with Myanmar’s Foreign Minister, had also written to PM Modi asking political refugees be given asylum 

Nearly 20,000 women prisoners in India: Centre tells RS

The available data from the year 2019 states that 22,456 CCTV cameras have been installed in various jails of the country

Is Secularism a threat to traditions of India?

India is inherently plural with rich diversity in religious traditions, languages, ethnicities, etc.

Was the ‘BHU Professor Nita Ambani’ controversy a diversion from other issues?

A protest was held by BHU students against the proposal to make Nita Ambani a visiting professor, followed by RIL denial

Parliament passes Bill to extend abortion deadline to 24 weeks  

A motion to refer the Bill to select committee and other amendments were defeated and was passed by a voice vote

No separate list of exclusion of Gorkhas published in Assam’s NRC: MHA

 The Centre has stated that 19,06,657 persons have been left out of the NRC

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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