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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

Apply, apply, no reply? RTI faces quiet death as CIC is all set to go into ‘lockdown mode’

In September 2023, twenty-four hours after being released by...

Palestine-Israel conflict: Need to look beyond security paradigm 

In the ongoing conflicts between Israel and Hamas, it...

Indian minorities must be protected, GOI needs to take steps: IAMC report

The now regular report of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) focuses on different aspects of violence against Indian minorities; this quarter’s report computes incidents from July – September 2023

Complaint filed by CJP against Kailash Vijayvargiya to ECI gets forwarded to concerned officer; response awaited

On October 6, CJP had moved the Election Commission of India against the BJP leader for offering a reward of Rs 51,000 to the polling booth chairman for no votes given to the opposition Congress party

According to Article 370, what does “autonomy” mean for Jammu and Kashmir?

Arguments on the crucial issue of sovereignty as outlined in the instrument of accession that was unique to Jammu & Kashmir and ensured autonomy as a distinct political entity, argued petitioners

INDIA alliance writes to Facebook, Google CEOs on ‘Communal Hatred’, ‘Neutrality’

The unified, opposition INDIA alliance has written to Meta...

Bhopal police manhandles and detains Dalit Dy Collector Nisha Bangre as she takes out protest march

Nisha showed her torn jeans along with a torn picture of Dr. BR Amedkar as a result of manhandling; her foot march was to protest the non-acceptance of her resignation as she wants to contest the MP Assembly elections

‘Reorganisation’ of J & K into two union territories, constitutional? Part III of the analysis in the 370 case

The third part of the series examines the validity of the union government’s action in reducing the status of Jammu and Kashmir, without consulting the state legislature, to two union territories

BJP leader Shubhkaran Choudhary promotes corrupt electoral practices, CJP moves the ECI

Video showed Choudhary addressing a crowd and ‘guiding’ people about the best time to capture a booth and cast fake votes, openly defying established election laws and manipulating the free and fair election process of India

Article 370, permanent or temporary? Part II of arguments in Supreme Court

This is Part II of a series summarising arguments presented in the Article 370 hearings before the Supreme Court

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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