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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

Ex-CBI Chief Ashwini Kumar found dead in Shimla

He was found hanging by his family in what is being perceived as death by suicide

Contemporary artists raise key questions about freedom of speech and expression

Artists Poojan Sahil and Vijay Pandey talk about protest culture, current government and dissent in India.

UP government gives in, decides against privatising electricity sector

Government relents to the pressure from electricity employees and engineers who opposed privatisation of electricity distribution.

Rajasthan PUCL defends free speech of local journalists

The people’s organisation demanded that the state stay complaints against two journalists arrested recently on trumped up charges of spreading 'fake news'

Countrywide protest in support of socially backward sections on October 13!

CITU, AIKS and AIAWU call for nationwide strike in light of growing violence against marginalised sections.

Indian Civil Society is being Murdered!

CIVICUS report slams India for judicial harassment of activists, journalists, and protesters

UP Police arrest Muslim journalist, 3 others near Hathras for carrying ‘suspicious literature’

Police claim the men are linked to Campus Front of India, and its parent outfit the Popular Front of India

Amnesty being accused of sparking caste-tensions in Hathras?

Human Rights organisation being accused of accepting foreign funds to defame UP CM Adityanath as a part of an ‘international conspiracy’

UN raises concerns about attacks on Human Rights Defenders

Reprisals continued unabated despite the Covid-19 pandemic

Remove Tejasvi Surya from upcoming conference: European Collectives

Arguing that Surya’s comments and opinions go against Europe’s secular spirit, various Collectives ask the Indian Consulate to remove the MP from its speaker list.

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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