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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
YouTube allows content containing false and incendiary information about India’s elections: report
Access Now and Global Witness conducted an investigative exercise where they submitted 48 advertisements with disinformation to check if it would pass YouTube’s content moderation policies.
With less than two weeks for polling, how concerned are national parties on land and forest rights for Adivasis?
As constituencies in 20 states go to polls on April 19, in Phase 1 of the Lok Sabha elections of 2024, have political parties included forest rights and rights of Adivasi communities in their manifestos and election campaign?
Centre hands over 62% of new Sainik Schools to Sangh Parivar, BJP politicians and allies
Sainik Schools, run under the Defence Ministry’s guidance, send cadets to India’s armed forces. The new initiative however relies on ideologically slanted organisations to train future cadets
Uttarakhand: Will the Ankita Bhandari murder case, arrest of journalist, Negi affect the April 19 poll?
Union Minister for Women & Child Welfare, Smriti Irani was chased by media in Pauri Garhwal where she arrived at the filing of nomination papers of BJP candidate, Anil Baluni; mother of Ankita Bhandari has demanded the arrest of BJP’s general secretary, Anil Kumar even as justice eludes the victim of the family in ghastly case of murder and assault
The case for forest rights in the republic of India: why should the BJP be worried?
As the country moves closer to the date of the Lok Sabha elections, with the first phase beginning on April 19, the pot gets boiling on whether the BJP can save the Adivasi vote.
Congress Radio, the power of revolutionary change: Lessons from ‘Ae Watan Mere Watan’, the film
Usha Mehta, a fiery satyagrahi, mesmerised by Gandhi, is the protagonist of this timely film; she with her two young colleagues, conceived and ran the underground ‘Congress Radio’ from Mumbai to both inform and unite fellow Indians left leaderless after the British crackdown on the Congress leadership following the historic quit India Rally at Gowalia Tank on August 8, 1942; “Karo Ya Maro” (Do or Die) was the powerful cry from the Indian people that day and Congress Radio, epitomises this unique contribution to the freedom struggle; it re-ignited the ‘Quit India Movement’ that challenged the oppressive British regime
Films building up a majoritarian narrative: Swatantraveer Savarkar
Films are a very powerful medium which create a social understanding...
IPMIE Bulletin on Elections 2024: Appointment of Election Commissioners, arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, EVM failure, media bias, voter registration
An Independent Panel for Monitoring Indian Elections 2024, has been formed to address concerns of civil society on the upcoming general elections; its first release points out a catalogue of concerns
Fulfill Promises Made To People Of Ladakh: Sonam Wangchuk In Fresh Appeal To Modi
Women activists of Ladakh begin fresh batch of 10-day long hunger strike in Leh
Back & Forth, Manipur govt’s decision to declare Easter Sunday a working day sparks outrage, govt backs down
Two orders, circulated within hours on Thursday, March 28, one declaring Easter Sunday a working day, the other one retracting the decision: Christians constitute 40.1% (2.8 million) of Manipur's population, and most of them belong to Kuki, Zo, and Naga communities.
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