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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

Is the PMCARES Fund using the national emblem illegally?

Activist Saket Gokhale writes to Home Secretary seeking prosecution sanction against the non-government organisation for misusing State Emblem of India

104-year-old ‘declared foreigner’ dies asserting his Indianness in Assam

Chandrahar Das, a registered refugee from Bangladesh, was declared ‘foreigner’ as the Dementia and Parkinson’s Disease afflicted man, arrested at the age of 101, could not recall when he crossed into the country!

SC advice to government seen as moral victory for farmers

Farmers’ organisation takes stock of events so far and assert that the Union government’s attempts to divide farmers will not succeed.

Karnataka HC permits Amnesty International to withdraw limited funds from frozen accounts

The petitioner organisation argued that they are being constantly harassed and the donations made to them are not for profit but for upholding human rights

Farmers protest intensifies: Delhi-Noida Link Road closed

Barricades set up, additional forces deployed; this a sign of more farmers from Uttar Pradesh joining those from Punjab and Haryana

Part-3: Identity of the ‘Ordinary Indian’

Concluding part of a three-part series

NRIs to soon get postal ballot voting, what about migrants?

CJP had petitioned the ECI in July proposing postal ballot voting for migrants who are unable to exercise their right, for similar reasons as NRIs

Facebook yet to take action against Bajrang Dal due to safety concerns: WSJ

Months after its first report on the giant tech company, the WSJ now states that the company is worried about safety and financial issues if it takes on right-wing organisations.

Peasants have put the government on the backfoot: AIUFWP

Impressed by the unified struggle of India’s peasants, AIUFWP promised to continue protests on Tuesday.

I am a farmer first and a police officer later: Punjab DIG Prisons quits

Lakhminder Singh Jakhar, Punjab DIG Prisons quits in solidarity with farmers’ protest

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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