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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

Gangster Vikas Dubey’s ‘encounter’ reopens debate on extrajudicial killings

He was shot dead enroute to Kanpur a day after he ‘surrendered’ in Madhya Pradesh, and was being brought to Uttar Pradesh 

Assam Detention Camps: 32 people released, here’s how CJP did it

Take a closer look at a blow-by-blow account of the painstaking procedure our team had to follow

Galwan incident happened because of political, civil & military failure: Armed Forces Veterans

The 144 signatories highlight the need for a national policy and strategy on “Neighbourhood Management”

UP gangster Vikas Dubey surrenders, arrested at Mahakal Temple in MP

Dubey has been on the run for days, after 8 cops were killed in an ambush near Kanpur on July 2 

Sheikh Waseem Bari shot dead despite 10 cops being assigned to guard him! 

He was killed outside his shop, near the police station. With or without official security, local politicians continue to be targeted in Kashmir Valley.

Does the Assam MSME Ordinance threaten indigenous land in the state?

The ordinance does away with bureaucratic hurdles for setting up small industrial units

“Fighting rail privatisation is a battle for universal access to reasonable travel and employment”: NRMU Gen Secy Venu Nair

Speaking to Sabrang India’s PriyankaKavish, Nair explained the manifold problems that will come with the government’s decision of railway privatisation

Journalists’ unions call for peaceful media protest on July 9, Press Rights Day

In the wake of Covid19 thousands of media persons have been sacked, and scores are being harassed and charged under various laws.

Poverty alleviation requires revision of Poverty Line

How the World Bank’s model is flawed and has kept us from making any meaningful progress in lifting people out of poverty

Fishing for trouble, or troubling the fishworkers?

A Draft National Fisheries Policy has been made public even as the fishworkers continue to struggle in the pandemic

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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