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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

Save Education: 15,000 Teachers and Students Across India Unite

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Journalists threatened and abused after numbers leaked online

Several Indian journalists, known for their liberal and secular...

From hinterlands to the frontline, this is how a soldier’s life begins and ends

The jawans that were killed on February 14 were...

Cow Vigilantes Enjoy Impunity under the BJP Govt: HRW

The Indian government should prosecute mob violence by so-called...

Hate Watch: Delhi MLA spews venom on Social Media after Pulwama Terrorist Attack

Kapil Mishra incites people to "destroy the womb that...

Indians offer home and hearth to Kashmiri students facing harassment after Pulwama attack

There were allegations of Kashmiri students and businessmen facing...

CAB row: Tripura police charges three tribal leaders with sedition

The indigenous Borok people of Tripura and their human...

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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