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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

Multipurpose National Identity Card, recall from 2003

MNIC was started in 2003, then integrated into Aadhaar and now the government is looking to revive it; so what was MNIC in the first place and what role will it play if brought in today?

Twitter makes BJP leader eat humble Poha!

Kailash Vijayvargiya trolled after he claims people who eat poha are Bangladeshi

Gandhi’s favourite hymn still in the Republic Day playlist?

Band continues to practice “Abide with me”, Vande Mataram an addition, not replacement

Two women assaulted by locals in Kota and WB over fears of collecting NRC data

They were collecting data for the economic census and a rural initiative for women, Internet Saathi, respectively

Punjab CM sends ‘Mein Kampf’ copy to SAD Chief to show implications of CAA

Amarinder Singh said that the Centre was trying to replicate “Hitler’s agenda” in India

India plummets 10 place on Global Democracy Index

For the first time it scored below 7 in a range of 0 to 10

HD Kumaraswamy aims guns at BJP; says Mangaluru bomb disposal mock exercise

The ex-CM incident was a controversy to create rift between two communities

Karnataka Congress MLA Haris hurt in minor blast at event

Police say the blast was due to a firecracker; son suspects foul play

BJP alienating Urdu to alienate Muslim culture?

The recent spate of name changes from Urdu to Sanskrit and other incidents just go to show the ruling party’s crafty agenda

Adityanath spews sexist venom, declares “azaadi” slogan as treason in UP

UP CM says it was shameful of opposition parties to put women at the forefront of protests when they don’t even understand anything about CAA

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