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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

How Assam Loses Land, Lives, Livelihoods To Its Rivers

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Odisha Government Registers Cases Against Tribals for Resisting Vedanta in Kodingamali Hills

The cases have been registered for disrupting “law and...

A 5-point blueprint for the revival of the Congress – Part 1

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RTI Act amendments, dead activists, a sign of times to come?

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Front Line Defenders expresses concern on “Imminent arrest” of Fr. Stan Swamy and other Jharkhand activists

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NRC Additional Exclusion list released, CJP swings into action

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Human rights defender Sobita Mangstabam threatened, accused police officer suspended, Manipur

Manipur-based human rights defender (HRD) Sobita Mangstabam was threatened...

Vociferous protests by Civil Society and Political Parties as Unnao survivor battles for life

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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

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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.

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