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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

Threat to Indian Democracy as the BJP Continues to Use Social Media Platforms to Influence Voters

In the run-up to the world’s largest democratic exercise,...

General Elections 2019: Will Religion and Ethnicity play a Key Role in Assam?

Key constituencies of Assam go to polls on April...

Despite EC’s Censure, NaMo TV continues to be Aired in the Streets of Varanasi

Varanasi: Despite the Election Commission’s (EC) censure, NaMo TV...

Jharkhand’s poor show in MGNREGA continue

The Government of India’s official website shows that Jharkhand...

‘Congress Had Multiple Terms In Delhi, Did Nothing For Education’

Bengaluru: In 2018, 90.6% of Delhi government school students...

Election 2019: BJP’s fielding of Sadhvi Pragya advances their Hindutva agenda

On Wednesday, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a Hindu sanyasi...

A widow’s vote: A photo essay

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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