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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

IFF files RTI to check GoI’s attempt to open backdoor into encrypted data

India has just become a signatory to an international statement demanding tech companies give them access to encrypted data in the name of public safety

How states can ensure transparency in EVM based assembly elections

There is nothing more fundamental and essential to the sustenance of democracy as the conduct of free and fair elections

Kolkata to march in solidarity with Fr. Stan Swamy

A secular body known to award social contributors has planned a march for Fr. Stan Swamy while adhering to social distancing norms

Flood-like situation in northern areas of Karnataka

Karnataka battles its third wave of floods; incessant rain and rising water-level in dams as northern districts slowly sink under the onslaught of water.

All rights snatched from us should be returned: People’s Alliance in J&K 

Pro-India political forces join to form 'People’s Alliance' in the Valley to fight against abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, throws new challenge at BJP

If NRC is faulty, then CM should resign: Assam citizens group

BNASM denounces state government’s stand on NRC

Assam NRC: 10,000 names could be deleted from the final list!

NRC Coordinator issues order to delete names of ‘ineligible people’ from final list

Varavara Rao’s health deteriorates, wife moves SC for release on medical grounds

His health is very feeble, says Pendaya Hemlatha, wife of the 81-year-old literary critic who was arrested in 2018 in connection with the Elgar Parishad case and is lodged at the Taloja jail since

157 attacks on christians in 3rd quarter of 2020: Persecution Relief

The crimes to include murders, crimes against women, church attacks, and unjust arrests

The Making of a Vishwa Guru

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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