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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

Is Uttar Pradesh increasingly becoming hostile towards Muslims?

From Covid-19 to anti-CAA protests, the UP administration has only targeted the minority community

Is a prolonged quarantine just an excuse to keep Tablighi attendees locked up?

Why are Tablighi Jamaat members who tested negative for Covid19 still under quarantine in Delhi? It has been over a month, and the Delhi government now wants MHA to take a decision.

Maha gov’t moves SC accusing Arnab Goswami of ‘browbeating’ police

Meanwhile, Goswami seeks quashing of new FIR in connection with his channel's reportage of the Bandra migrant crisis

Does the Karnataka Govt think migrant workers are bonded labourers?

Property developers’ lobby allegedly convinces state gov't to cancel special trains meant to take labourers safely home

Migrant workers wishing to return home forced to run pillar to post for registration

The return of migrant workers has also sparked a fear of the coronavirus spreading to rural areas

Right to Internet: Is it a fundamental right in India?

The Kashmir lockdown rekindles the question

Death, harassment and apathy – there’s a long road before migrants go back home

Even today, migrants face harassment and marginalisation as they try to go back home

A Pulitzer for Kashmir

AP photographers Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand awarded journalism’s most coveted prize

Health worker booked for alleging lack of food at Covid treatment facility

The ward boy, who had himself tested positive and was undergoing treatment at the facility, had alleged that he couldn’t fast during Ramzan as the hospital didn’t provide iftar and sehri meals

Call it ‘physical distancing’, not ‘social distancing’: Petition in SC

The petition states that use of social distancing tends to promote untouchability

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