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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

Arnabgate: Evaluating crime and punishment

A deeper look at the potential consequences of the startling contents of Arnab Goswami’s alleged Whatsapp exchange

Communalisation of COVID-19: A Bebaak Collective report

Human rights defender Teesta Setalvad and feminist historian Uma Chakravarti applaud the initiative and discuss the rampant communalism observed during the coronavirus pandemic.

Farmer leaders consider Centre’s proposal to suspend farm laws for 18 months

Farmers organisations said they demand a complete repeal of laws, but will discuss the proposal that has come from the central government.

144 peasants died during farmers’ struggle since November 24, 2020

Farmers organisation maintain an updated blog to honour all peasants who died for farmers’ cause in the last month or so.

Why is NIA seeking to question Khalsa Aid, other volunteers now?

The NGO has recently been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Canadian politicians Tim Uppal and Patrick Brown

Three protesters die as farmers and Centre fail to break stalemate

While leaders bicker and avoid issues at hand, the death tally kept by farmers' organisations continues to rise

Kangana Ranaut is whining about Twitter, on Twitter, for Twitter restricting her!

Her account reportedly got restricted for some time after she ranted against Tandav creators and allegedly tweeted that it was “time to take their heads off”

Adani defamation case: Guj court issues arrest warrant against Paranjaoy Guha Thakurta

The 2017 case relates to an article in The Wire about changes to SEZ rules to favour Adani

Illegal Rohingya migrants arrested in Delhi and Tripura

While two were arrested in Delhi, 10 more were caught on a Delhi-bound train

Of fishes and fouls

Presumably the contract of getting Nidhi Razdan off the track and keeping her absorbed in a delusory prospect had been assigned to one of the many seedy but well-equipped agencies so thriving now in the land of liberty

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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