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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

Blows of the sword to a corpse: Mamata Banerjee on Cyclone Amphan

The cyclone is now moving towards Jharkhand and Assam which are on high alert

SC: Four more petitions filed against CAA, notices issued

The court refused to grant interim stay on operation of the CAA and issued notices

Withdraw hasty Environment Clearance to Central Vista Project: NAPM

20,000 crores investment must be in public health, not pompous infrastructure

Exclusive: What Amphan means for Mamata Banerjee

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Release all Political Prisoners in J & K before Eid: Concerned Citizens

The intimidation of media personnel must also stop and the govt must extend the same bank loan deferment facilities to J&K businesses like the rest of India

Covid-19: How Indian states are snatching away the rights of workers

As many as 7 Indian states have diluted labour laws. The excuse is that the steps have been taken to “boost the economy”. Many more states are expected to follow suit.

No respite for migrants as Cyclone Amphan is set to hit WB and Odisha

Lack of resources, delay in trains and fear – all have put migrants in worry during the double crisis they face

MP: Khandwa Collector Tanvi Sundriyal transferred at BJP MLA’s behest?

BJP MLA Ram Dangore had written a letter to the MP CM saying that Tanvi Sundriyal was proving inefficient in controlling the coronavirus infection in the district

Is the Indian state launching a proxy Hindutva project of militarizing of Hindus?

The Indian army’s proposal for a three year volunteer enrolment could well allow the entry of questionable cadres who owe allegiance, not to India’s Constitutional values, but to majoritarianism and who are then miltarised further

When in doubt, write a letter: MHA tells states to “run more buses, ensure their smooth transition”

It also wants states to create places for the traveller to rest en-route, but the ground reality is very different

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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