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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

Police Transfers Jump In Election Years, New Report Finds

Mumbai: In Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, 125% and 121%...

Modi appeasing increased global acceptance of anti-Muslim ‘bigotry’: US Congressman

In a surprising assertion, Andy Levin, who represents Michigan’s...

A Prison with diminishing medical supplies, Kashmir Day 26

Diminishing medical supplies and shortage of life saving drugs...

BJP ‘goons’ threaten to disrupt a program to discuss Art 370, end up sharing stage: Satara

Progressive forces organise program to dispel myths around Article...

What’s in a Name: Why re-naming of Feroze Shah Kotla Stadium furthers an Agenda

The iconic Feroze Shah Kotla Stadium, host to many...

Kashmir – and the strange paralysis of the Indian civil society

There were no black-bordered newspaper announcements of either the...

Congratulations, Mayawati! But What About Dreams of Babasaheb and Kanshi Ram?

Mayawati has once again been elected as the president...

Iceland is mourning a dead glacier – how grieving over ecological destruction can help us face the climate crisis

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Who ate our foodgrains? Ration cardholders of Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum ask govt

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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

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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