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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

The ‘Food Transition’ Is a War on Food, Farmers and the Public

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ECI to political parties: Steer away from caste and religion during electioneering, no false statements to mislead, no anti-women stance

The advisory issued by the ECI asserts that any act in violation would result in severe consequences

Farmers protest: Documentary ‘Kisan Satyagraha’ barred from Bengaluru film fest

The award-winning documentary film on the 2020-21 farmers stir has been refused a screening; along with two others films, one on Israel and the other on Ukraine, reports Times of India

Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code: A Majoritarian Code – Neither Uniform nor Civil

The Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code adopted by the Uttarakhand...

Living standards in ‘model’ Gujarat worse than major states: Govt of India document

Amidst raging controversy over whether the latest Government of...

BJP’s Nitesh Rane gives authorities ultimatum of ‘fifteen days, threatens violence

Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Kankavli Nitesh Rane was caught on camera openly threatening violence against what he claimed to be migrants from Bangladesh and Rohingya refugees in the presence of police officers in Mumbai’s Thane on February 27.

JNU Students conducting election meeting attacked

As per reports, several students were attacked by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidya Parishad on February 29 as they were conducting a general body meeting on campus.

Public Vs Private Education – A New Experiment By Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy

There is a lot of curiosity about forthcoming elections...

Ten years of a powerful PM but the country is a landscape of worrying divisions: Christoffe Jaffrelot to Karan Thapar

Modi is India's most powerful PM ever but the country has become a landscape of very worrying divisions: Christophe Jaffrelot to Karan Thapar for The Wire. 

Mosque and temple demolished in Varanasi despite local outcry

A mosque and temple was demolished in Varanasi's Ramnagar-Padaav where a contentious road-widening project has been going on for several weeks.

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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

Pradip Prabhu, who brought hope to the oppressed, is no more

An academic activist, Pradip Prabhu worked among Adivasis as also contributed to academia and path-breaking legislation for indigenous land rights