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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

Nothing humanitarian behind sham clemency to Sikh prisoners

Image Courtesy: DNAThe Indian government’s decision to commute death...

Protesting JNU students target media, target female journalists

Students were protesting the fee hike imposed by the Inter-Hall administration

Cambridge scholar told to go back to India: UK academics protest

Asiya Islam has been based in the UK for over a decade and was awarded a three-year Junior Research Fellowship after completing her PhD from Newnham College.

In ruins: Gol Gumbaz, the largest dome in India, is crumbling away

ASI says it hasn’t received any recent information on the same

Jharkhand BJP leader gets ration from Antyodaya, claims being MNREGA labour, while Savitri starves to death after being denied Antyodaya card

48-year-old Mahadev Dubey, vice-president of BJP's Giridih Chapter despite owning a two-storey building, works as MNREGA labour, and also gets ration from Antyodaya card, both Dubey and Savitri belong to same assembly segment

‘Political conspiracy’ to isolate Dalits amidst failure of campaign to annihilate caste

Historically, for Dalits to be on crossroads is a...

2019 polls: ECIL seeks disclosure of information on EVM, VVPAT; BEL, EC equivocate under RTI Act

 BEL unit, BengaluruReaders may remember reading my despatch from...

‘Indians Less Charitable Than Asian Counterparts’

 Mumbai: India ranked 82nd among 128 countries for generosity...

JNU Protest: May Have to Quit After Fee Hike, Say Students

The students allege that the new hostel manual approved by the administration proposes 400% hike and recommends curfew timings.

Students, Cops clash at JNU on convocation

Students have been protesting against the fee hike that was ordered without consulting them

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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

KPSS: Kashmiri Pandits need security, not ceremonial brotherhood

KPSS says Kashmiri Pandits cannot be expected to return to their ancestral homes while living with the possibility of renewed targeting