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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

KP slain member cremated, Muslims neighbours grief-stricken, help with last rites: Pulwama, Kashmir

Lt Guv Manoj Sinha accused of transferring the SP and SSP days before gives ‘employment certificate to widow

Call for hartal on in Valley, KPSS condemn brute killings of Kashmiri Pandits, call out extremists

KPSS demands high level interventions by the country’s prime minister and home minister

Village Mourns Killing of Man Belonging to Lone Kashmiri Pandit Family Which Stayed, Vigil held: J&K

The shocking killing by shooting took place barely 50 metres from 45-year-old Sanjay Kumar Sharma's home in Achan village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district days after the SP and SSP were both transferred out by the administration

Kashmiri Pandit Killed in Targeted Attack Near His Residence in Pulwama

The attack comes just two days after a civilian identified as Asif Ganai was targeted by suspected militants in the Bijbehara area of South Kashmir.

India behind on poverty, health and gender goals: Independent study

The study, which covers 707 districts, has found that barely a year ago, in 2021, over 75 per cent of the districts were off target on key indicators such as access to basic services, anaemia, poverty, child marriage etc

ICHR stops singing of national anthem, removes images of Bharat Mata, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya after ‘objections’ were raised

A senior official told The Indian Express that the singing of the national anthem started based on a verbal order in September 2022 and stopped on February 24, also on a verbal order. There was no written order to remove images of Bharat Mata and Upadhyaya but these were also removed today from both places, he informed.

Christians & Muslims excluded from voters list in Karnataka, HC approached

Complaints of deliberate exclusion of voters from the minority community from key seats in Karnataka have been surfacing with worrying regularity, now the focus is Bengaluru’s spotlight Shivajinagar constituency

Anti-BJP, ‘inconvenient’ voters in Bengaluru could be dis-enfranchised: Karnataka polls

Thousands of voters, especially Dalits and Muslims could be deliberately cast off the voter’s list in Bengaluru’s Shivajinagar constituency of Karnataka

Tripura: CAA and the rise of Tipra Motha

How the controversial CAA, introduced in 2019 and kept in abeyance since, is re-igniting indigenous insecurities in Tripura

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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