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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

MPLADS suspended not dissolved: Minister clarifies in Parliament

Centre grilled for its decision to suspend MPLADS; a move likely to affect developmental activities across the country.

Centre refers to 2011-12 data to discuss current poverty!

Minister of State of Ministry Of Planning and the Ministry Of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) talks about current poverty in India using 2011-12 data.

Don’t demand loans from those keeping home fires burning: National women’s organisations

National organisations come to the defence of SHG women, demanding the withdrawal of decision to collect outstanding loans from the marginalised.

14 US Senators demand India be designated CPC

They made the demand in a letter to the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Celebrating AG Noorani at 90!

The legal luminary and prolific writer, receives birthday wishes from activists, writers and lawyers on his birthday

Soldiers dying at the border; India borrows money from Chinese bank?

Modi govt confirms India took loans totalling Rs 9,202 crore from Beijing-based bank, even as India-China border standoff was escalating

Film industry being maligned by insiders: Jaya Bachchan in RS

MP and veteran actress raises concerns about attacks and allegations on film industry; but Kangana Ranaut makes remarks in poor taste about Bachchan's family on social media

Shrey Hospital Fire: Civil society demands CBI inquiry

Statement of solidarity with victims’ families seeks application of Sec 304 of CrPC

31 online complaints of labourers’ mental exploitation and harassment: Labour and Employment Minister

Questions on labour abuse and minimum wages of labourers raired in Parliament

Civil society condemns arrest of Umar Khalid

Calls targeting of the activist malicious and demands his immediate release

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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