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4 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
On December 12, 2024, 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju created history by becoming the youngest-ever world chess champion. The teenage chess wizard from Chennai had beaten a star-studded line-up in the Candidates Tournament, including Super GMs (Grandmaster) like Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alireza Firouzja, and others, before finally defeating the reigning world champion Ding Liren from China. But the crown did not rest easy on the young king’s head.
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy
For the 130 Dalit families in Gidhagram village in Purbo Bardhaman, March 13, 2025, was a momentous day, as after more than 300 years, they could finally enter the Gidheshwar Shiv temple in their village. Though their entrance and worship took place amid heavy police security, it was nevertheless a symbolic end to centuries of caste-based discrimination.
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3 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Divya Gandhi
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
The rising incidence of crimes against women and minors in Odisha has not only put the nine-month-old BJP government in a tight spot but also exposed serious lapses in its efforts to curb and deter such violence. These incidents have begun to reshape the State’s political landscape, drawing attention to the underlying socio-political factors driving this disturbing pattern.
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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy
The ruling Trinamool Congress of West Bengal received yet another blow to its battered reputation when the Supreme Court, on April 3, upheld an earlier verdict of the Calcutta High Court and invalidated 25,752 appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff. These appointments had been made by a recruitment panel set up by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) in 2016. The court claimed that the entire selection process was “vitiated and tainted beyond resolution”.
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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Vaishna Roy
Norman Mailer, the American writer and filmmaker, had once written that a heavyweight champion must live in a world where proportions are gone. “He is conceivably the most frightening unarmed killer alive. With his hands he could slay fifty men before he would become too tired to kill any more.
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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Vaishna Roy
Even as Jadavpur University (JU) remains on edge following a violent confrontation between protesting students from Left unions and West Bengal’s Education Minister Bratya Basu on March 1, its exclusion from the list of institutions being considered for Institute of Eminence (IoE) status has further deepened its troubles.
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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Vaishna Roy
Trouble and Kolkata’s Jadavpur University (JU), one of the premier higher education institutions in the country, seem inseparable. Reeling from acute fund shortage, besmirched by horrifying accounts of ragging and bullying in hostels, and scarred by agitations and political tension within the campus, the university has once again plunged into chaos following a violent confrontation between protesting students from left-wing organisations and State Education Minister Bratya Basu.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy
Long before chess acquired its relatively new-found glamour in the world of sport, with big money, high-profile sponsorships, flashy tournaments, and extensive media coverage, Boris Spassky was a superstar. The 10th World Chess Champion, with his movie star good looks, romantic style of play, and glamorous lifestyle, was the first after the great Cuban champion Jose Raul Capablanca (the third world champion, 1921-27), who by the charm of his own personality, elevated chess to a popular sport.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee, is clearly leaving little to chance ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections.
