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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

Gujarat Elections: River Linking, 4-Lane Highway, Zinc Smelter Dominate Issues in South

Adivasis in South Gujarat, who have been protesting, claim that the government projects will displace them and destroy their livelihoods.

A surveillance regime that violates both Privacy & Right to Life: Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2002

Proscribing entirely an individual citizens’ right to privacy and control over personal data, the ‘deemed consent’ provisions along with other provisions of the Bill weaponise the state to be the ultimate arbiter

Hate Watch: Himanta Biswas Sarma on ‘Love Jihad’ during the Gujarat poll campaign

Unmindful of the fact that the state he leads, Assam, is among the five worst when it comes to domestic violence, the aggressive chief minister, uses the murder of Shraddha Walkar to stigmatise inter-faith relationships

Gujarat Elections: Farmers of 3 North Gujarat Villages Have Been Boycotting Polls for 3 Years

Over 50% farmers in Dahisana own less than two bigha land; a drop in income over the years, failing crop and government apathy has angered them.

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma excludes “encroachers” from Mission Bashundhara 2.0

In another attempt to single out and discriminate against Bengali Muslims, Biswa asserts that they will only give legitimacy to those living in Assam for three generations

Hatebuster! Aaftab Poonawalla- Shraddha murder case had nothing to do with religion!

According to a social media video, 80% of Hindu women who marry Muslim men are later raped or killed

MP: Ahead of Assembly Polls, Govt Enacts PESA 1996, CM Believes ‘It Will Stop Tribal Conversion’

Tribal leaders pointed out that Gram Sabhas have been given partial executive powers without any financial powers.

Gujarat Elections: RTE Rules Being Flouted in Muslim Areas, Allege Teachers

Closure of several Urdu-medium primary government- aided schools contradicts NPE objectives, say local teachers in Rakhiyal.

Hate Watch: Amit Shah says “more mazars than population” during Gujarat rally

He congratulated CM Bhupendra Patel for demolishing illegal mazars in Beyt Dwarka

Karnataka changes dome-like structures on bus stops in Mysuru

Mysuru: After being warned by Hindu activists and the BJP...

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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