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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
Mamata seeks to give land rights to refugees in West Bengal
Mamata Banerjee seems to be at the forefront when it comes to speaking up against the National Register of Citizens (NRC ) and the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). Now, she is going a step further.
All is not well for the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in India
The beginning of the second week of the Parliament’s winter session witnessed questions regarding the government’s Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDMS), the responses to which can be regarded as a report card on MDMS.
Maharashtra gov’t formation: SC orders floor test
The political juggernaut that appeared to be hurtling at breakneck speed in Maharashtra appears to be sobering down with the Supreme Court passing an order, on Constitution Day no less, directing that a floor test be conducted.
India is not quite yet a Hindu Rashtra: 70th Constitution Day
In January 2018, four top Supreme Court Judges in...
Anti-Aadhaar to Pro-Aadhaar? Mamata approves proposal to link Aadhaar with ration cards
She took the move after her government convinced her that it would save Rs. 500 crore annually under the PDS
Tha Maharashtra circus and our reform agenda
On our 70th Constitution Day, the first change we should effect is that we should seriously consider, officially, running the government only at night
Maharashtra governor’s action unconstitutional
The Maharashtra Farce, which was played at the 'stroke...
Assam’s Detention Camps are akin to Germany’s Concentration Camps: Thinkers
A cross-section of thinkers and literary personalities came out against Assam’s Detention camps, demanded their closure and halt to construction of the proposed new one at Goalpara stating that 823 of the 938 persons languishing without fair trial are Assamese citizens
“Have we really done away with our Constitution?”
Exactly, seventy years ago on November 26, 1949, the...
Why isn’t anyone trying to buy this MLA in Maharashtra ?
As everybody watches with bated breath the 'Game of Thrones' that modern day 'Chanakyas' and 'Renaissance men' play in public and applaud the complete lack of pretense that such naked ambition for power entails, one MLA is not interested.
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