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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

Did NRC turn BJP’s electoral dreams to dust in Bengal?

Questions being raised after party’s humiliating defeat in bye elections.

A legacy of honesty and courage in public life: VP Singh

November 27, 2019 is his 10th death anniversary.

Engineers and graduates apply for gov’t sanitation worker jobs!

Engineers and graduates apply for gov’t sanitation worker jobs!

Uddhav Thackeray stops tree cutting at Aarey

Within a day of taking oath as the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray has ordered Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) to stop work on the Mumbai Metro car shed that was set to be constructed in the Aarey region of Goregaon, Mumbai.

Siddaramaiah and Kumaraswamy booked for sedition and defamation

The charges were levied with relation to their protests against the IT raids, allegedly by the BJP in March

Maha Vikas Aghadi demands employment for ‘locals’

Will this lead to a rebirth of Shiv Sena’s ‘Sons of the Soil’ movement?

In the wake of protests in NE, MHA calls meeting with stakeholders

There seems to be an eerie silence ever since the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, spoke “officially” in the Rajya Sabha about a nation-wide National Register of Citizens (NRC) and re-introduction of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). Thus, it appears that the proposed bill has not yet been finalised by the central government that seems perturbed by the agitation and protests that have engulfed the Northeastern states ever since winter session began.

Anti-CAB protests rock Assam, north east even as HM holds meetings with CMs in Delhi

Image Courtesy: EPSGuwahati, November 29, 2019: The proposed...

Sonbhadra: 1L of milk given to 81 students as part of their mid-day meal!

A primary school was allegedly caught giving adulterated milk to its students as part of their mid-day meal in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh. A video demonstrating the cook adding one litre of milk to a bucket of water went viral on social media this Tuesday, on November 26.

WCD Ministry gives unsatisfactory answers on efforts to protect women and children

In response to an unstarred question made during the Lok Sabha session by four Members of Parliament, Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD) Smriti Irani appeared to only relay old, publicly available data on the issues.

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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

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KPSS: Kashmiri Pandits need security, not ceremonial brotherhood

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