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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

Throwing people under the bus

Migrant labor and the Indian lockdown

Covid-19: State governments continue to release prisoners on parole and interim bail

Most inmates released are undertrials and convicts who face an offence duration of seven years or less

There are no wrong answers when you ask no questions

Even though the Supreme Court has not issued a “gag order,” most media have stopped asking questions already. Not that any answers seem forthcoming.

Covid Confusion: Do masks really protect you from the Covid-19 pandemic?

Just like WHO, the Indian gov’t says only specific people need to wear a mask, however a doctor at the epicenter of Covid-19 in Wuhan, says something different

Is there a need for the “PM Cares: Fund, CPI(M) asks

Bypassing PMNRF & Setting Up A New Fund Unnecessary and in fact is a step that lacks transparecy

EXCLUSIVE: 820 Tamil fishermen trapped in Iran, send SOS videos begging GOI to rescue them

With each passing day, they run low on food, medication, and will power. Indian authorities are yet to respond

Covid-19: CJP delivers relief supplies to needy families from the North East

Part of our campaign with Tangkhul Welfare Society Mumbai

COVID – a space for workers?

Image Courtesy: TOIThere is a major calamity brewing. State...

Covid-19: Jharkhand Nagrik Prayas condemns the Centre’s inefficiency in implementing the lockdown

Prem Verma, Convener, JNP writes statement saying that the ill-prepared lockdown was a disastrous decision for the vast migrant force

Markaz Nizamuddin counters all allegations of contributing to spread of Covid-19

Says maintained hygiene, cooperated fully with all authorities

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