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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

Bonds levied on UP farmers: Allahabad HC warns DM to be “cautious”

The court warned the Sitapur DM to not act arbitrarily and against natural justice over their notice demanding exorbitant personal bonds from farmers

Rihanna, Greta Thunberg support Indian farmers; MEA cries foul

Ministry of External Affairs issues statement on comments by global icons’ solidarity with indian farmers, adds its own hashtags #IndiaTogether and #IndiaAgainstPropaganda

Maharashtra gov’t bringing back Ballot papers?

State government appears keen; Bill to this effect likely in Budget Session

Will Kisan mahapanchayat signal a political movement in UP, Haryana?

Arrested farmers should be released before talks are resumed demands Rakesh Tikait as over 50,000 farmers attend Kandela khap mahapanchayat

No central “love jihad” law on the cards: MHA

The Centre failed to provide data on forced religious conversions, shifting the burden on the States

India shocked as Sri Lanka cancels international partnership for ECT project

Giving in to the mounting pressure of local workers Unions, the Sri Lankan government cancels the 2019 agreement including India and Japan in a major port project.

Shashi Tharoor, Rajdeep Sardesai move SC over sedition FIRs

Six journalists and Dr. Tharoor have been booked for their alleged misleading tweets that claimed that the Police shot dead a Sikh youth during the Republic Day tractor parade

Budget Session: How the Centre justified farms laws in Lok Sabha

The Agriculture Minister justified the urgency of passing the laws during a pandemic and gave reasons why civil courts jurisdiction has been barred

Gov’t will not compensate families of farmers who died during protests: MHA

The Ministry of Home Affairs even justified the use of tear gas and water cannons on protesting farmers

No data on number of prisoners testing Covid positive: MHA

The Ministry however presented data collated by NCRB on overcrowding of prisons and number of undertrials as of 2019

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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