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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

Ban caste discrimination: Ambedkar Intl Center to Seattle City Council

The AIC has worked closely with council member Kshama Sawant, the Coalition of Seattle Indian-Americans (CSAI), Equality Labs, and the Ambedkar Association of North America (AANA) to help draft this proposed ordinance.

Netaji’s Secular Outlook, and Why He was Disappointed With Jinnah, Savarkar

Bose's approach to history discarded the religious approach, therefore, it is important to revisit his worldview rooted in our composite culture.

Celebrating the Republic @ 74!

Image: AFPAt a recent press conference held in Delhi...

‘ASI Protects None, Neither Monuments Nor People in Tughlaqabad’

“The ASI is hiding some key facts. We found that the 100-metre radius contains a government school and dispensary as well as houses of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ramesh Bidhuri. None of those buildings seems to have been earmarked for demolition,” said Sucheta De.

Can the Union Govt be the sole Gatekeeper of news?

MeitY has invited feedback on the draft proposal, deadline January 25 by when it seeks to make PIB the sole fact checking agency 

WFI leadership accused of sexual harassment by Indian women wrestlers, absence of redressal mechanisms the focus

The culture of harassment and impunity within WFI is underlined as Indian women wrestlers demonstrate outside Jantar Mantar

Rule of Law means Certainty that establishes Supremacy of the Constitution

Law, from any viewpoint, is the foundation of certainty,...

Close to a month after ‘Pathaan’ hysteria, Modi cautions his partymen

Speaking the national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the prime minister obliquely reprimanded his aggressive party voices

20,000 residents of Delhi near Tughlaqabad fort face eviction

Image: Nikita Jain / The CitizenResidents of a slum in...

Karnataka: 17th All India CITU Conference Starts in Bengaluru

Tapan Sen, CITU general secretary underlines importance of trade union movements in the backdrop of mounting attacks on working people.

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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