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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

Gov’t admits that over 1 crore migrant labourers returned home on foot!

After failing to report data on migrant workers deaths and many frontline warriors of the pandemic Centre now suddenly talks about the number of migrant workers who returned home

Oppn boycotts Lok Sabha over farm Bills, Dharna by suspended MPs on

An all night dharna by the suspended Rajya Sabha MPs also received widespread support

Crores allocated for upliftment of manual scavengers remain unused: Lockdown impact?

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment tells Parliament that the scheme for manual scavenging prevention and rehabilitation is not applicable to those sanitation workers who are not identified as manual scavengers.

MHA: Over 200 still detained under PSA in J&K

This ministry also said Covid measures were running smoothly with 2G internet in response to two questions asked in Lok Sabha

Tablighi Jamaat event caused coronavirus to spread to ‘many persons’: MHA

Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy also told Rajya Sabha that Delhi Police arrested 233 TJ members, evacuated 2,361 people from its HQ

Over 18,000 granted citizenship in India, many from Bangladesh and Pakistan: MHA

Ministry produces the number of people who were granted Indian citizenship in the last five years

KPSS’s fast-unto-death begins in Srinagar

Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti had sent multiple communications to government demanding rights of non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits

The era of the SC’s glorious jurisprudence has vanished: Justice AP Shah

Justice Shah delivered a lecture at an event organized to honour Justice Hosbet Suresh and to speak about the decline of the Supreme Court

BJP government under Adityanath is torturing the people in UP: Sanjay Singh AAP

Singh, a Rajya Sabha member, claims has been accused of Sedition, says 13 charges in three months have been leveled against him by UP government

National Unemployment Day: Youth demand jobs, financial security

Protests held on the streets, and on social media, hashtag #NationalUnemploymentDay shared over 4.16 million times

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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

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