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TATA Steel Chess 2024: Gukesh ties for title in Masters, Mendonca wins Challenger
11 months, 2 weeks ago

TATA Steel Chess 2024: Gukesh ties for title in Masters, Mendonca wins Challenger

The Hindu  

After Leon Luke Mendonca won the Challengers title, beating compatriot Divya Deshmukh in the final round, D. Gukesh battled brilliantly to tie the Tata Steel Masters crown before losing the title-deciding tie-break blitz game to eventual champion China’s Wei Yi at Wijk aan Zee, on Sunday. The teenage Indian won his final round against Iranian Parham Maghsoodloo to be part …

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Gukesh crushes Donchenko, shares lead with Abdusattarov
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Gukesh crushes Donchenko, shares lead with Abdusattarov

The Hindu  

Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh scored a crushing victory over Alexander Donchenko in the 10th round of Tata Steel Masters in Wijk Aan Zee on January 25. With three rounds still remaining in the first super-tournament of the year, India's R Praggnanandhaa and local star Anish Giri are closest to the two leaders with six points apiece while Vidit Gujrathi is …

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Rainbow Rishta director Jaydeep Sarkar: ‘I want queer actors to play straight roles’
1 year, 2 months ago

Rainbow Rishta director Jaydeep Sarkar: ‘I want queer actors to play straight roles’

Hindustan Times  

Filmmaker and writer Jaydeep Sarkar has directed the documentary series Rainbow Rishta that released on Prime Video recently. Rainbow Rishta director Jaydeep Sarkar in an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times. Took me 30 years to come out Explaining why he decided to take up Rainbow Rishta, Jaydeep said, “Because I had not seen anything like this. We need queer writers.” …

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National Chess Championships: Nitin upsets Mendonca; shares lead with seven others
2 years ago

National Chess Championships: Nitin upsets Mendonca; shares lead with seven others

The Hindu  

Bespectacled S. Nitin is a seasoned International Master but may not have visualised nailing fourth-seeded Grandmaster Leon Mendonca by prompting his helpless king into a checkmating net. In what turned out to be the biggest upset of the third round of the 59th MPL National chess championship, Nitin needed only 36 moves to inflict an embarrassing defeat on the young …

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Book Review | Delio Mendonca’s ‘Fonseca’ validates Angelo da Fonseca’s attempts to forge a hybrid form of art
2 years, 1 month ago

Book Review | Delio Mendonca’s ‘Fonseca’ validates Angelo da Fonseca’s attempts to forge a hybrid form of art

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 01, 2022 10:25 IST This book is a magnificently wrought volume dedicated to the Goan artist Angelo da Fonseca that seeks to restore his work and ideas into the pantheon of modern Indian art. Menezes also figures prominently in the “Notes” at the end along with a meticulously recorded attribution to all those scholars and observers who …

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Latin Grammy-winning singer Marilia Mendonca dies in Brazil plane crash
3 years, 2 months ago

Latin Grammy-winning singer Marilia Mendonca dies in Brazil plane crash

India TV News  

Singer Marilia Mendonca has passed away in a plane crash. The 26-year-old Brazilian singer was killed when the small plane she was travelling in crashed in Minas Gerais state, reported Deadline. On Friday, Mendonca even posted a video on her Instagram account showing her walking toward the plane, guitar case in hand. The news of sudden death of the charismatic …

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Praggnanandhaa finishes third in Hou Yifan Challenge, qualifies for Tour Finals along with Mendonca
3 years, 3 months ago

Praggnanandhaa finishes third in Hou Yifan Challenge, qualifies for Tour Finals along with Mendonca

The Hindu  

India's R. Praggnanandhaa tied for second place before finishing third in the Hou Yifan Challenge online rapid chess tournament on Tuesday. RELATED| Keymer also tops the list of eight Tour finalists who fight for $40,000 in a knockout final that takes place from October 14 to 17. With D. Gukesh not taking part in the last leg of the Tour, …

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To fight Covid-19 and flu, joint vaccine clinics emerge
3 years, 3 months ago

To fight Covid-19 and flu, joint vaccine clinics emerge

CNN  

CNN — They’re a fall staple in most communities across the United States: flu shot clinics. “There has been an expectation that the flu would be worse this year than in year’s past, however our county is at a critical stage with COVID-19 transmission rates being at record levels, so that has been our main focus, in preventing outbreaks and …

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro picks evangelical for supreme court seat
3 years, 6 months ago

Brazil’s Bolsonaro picks evangelical for supreme court seat

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday named Attorney General Andre Mendonca, who is also an evangelical pastor, to fill a vacated seat on Brazil’s supreme court, the conservative president’s second appointment to the 11-member court. Bolsonaro’s pick comes after he publicly criticized justice Luis Roberto Barroso, who also chairs the country’s top electoral body, and warned of …

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Gelfand Challenge: Praggnanandhaa wins five in a row, shares lead
3 years, 7 months ago

Gelfand Challenge: Praggnanandhaa wins five in a row, shares lead

The Hindu  

Making up for a slow start, a determined R. Praggnanandhaa won all five rounds on Friday to share the lead after 10 rounds of Gelfand Challenge online rapid chess tournament. He went on to account for Zhu Jiner, teammate Leon Mendonca, Vincent Keymer and Jonas Buhl Bjerre for a share of the lead with top seeded Uzbek Nodirbek Abdusattarov at …

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Sarin, Praggnanandhaa leads Indian brigade for Team Kramnik vs Team Polgar
3 years, 9 months ago

Sarin, Praggnanandhaa leads Indian brigade for Team Kramnik vs Team Polgar

The Hindu  

Second seed Nihal Sarin heads the four-player Indian brigade, including third seed R. Praggnanadhaa, sixth seed D. Gukesh and eighth seed Leon Mendonca, in the first leg of the $100,000 Julius Baer Challengers Online Chess Tour beginning on Thursday. These players are divided into two teams - Team Kramnik and Team Polgar. Nihal and Gukesh are part of Team Polgar …

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Young Indian Grandmaster Leon Mendonca emerges victorious in second Kumania GM chess tournament
3 years, 9 months ago

Young Indian Grandmaster Leon Mendonca emerges victorious in second Kumania GM chess tournament

Firstpost  

Chennai: Young Indian Grandmaster Leon Luke Mendonca emerged victorious in the 2nd Kumania GM chess tournament in Kisjszlls, Hungary, with a score of 6.5 points from nine rounds. The 15-year-old Goa player, who became India’s 67th Grandmaster in December last, remained unbeaten and finished with four wins and five draws in the tournament which concluded on Thursday. “Feeling happy to …

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Young Indian GM Leon Mendonca wins 2nd Kumania GM tournament in Hungary
3 years, 9 months ago

Young Indian GM Leon Mendonca wins 2nd Kumania GM tournament in Hungary

The Hindu  

Young Indian Grandmaster Leon Luke Mendonca emerged victorious in the 2nd Kumania GM chess tournament in Kisújszállás, Hungary, with a score of 6.5 points from nine rounds. The 15-year-old Goa player, who became India's 67th Grandmaster in December last, remained unbeaten and finished with four wins and five draws in the tournament, which concluded on Thursday. "Feeling happy to retain …

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Inside Gavin Newsom’s fateful decision to lock down California
3 years, 9 months ago

Inside Gavin Newsom’s fateful decision to lock down California

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters about California’s response to the coronavirus during a news conference in Sacramento on March 12, 2020. He asked me maybe two questions,” said Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s health and human services secretary, describing his recollection of that moment one year later. “We’re meeting this moment,” Newsom said at his first press conference to address the …

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Goa's 14-year-old Leon Mendonca becomes India's 67th Grandmaster
4 years ago

Goa's 14-year-old Leon Mendonca becomes India's 67th Grandmaster

Firstpost  

The Goa youngster had taken part in a camp organised by Microsense in Chennai late in 2019 when former world champions Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand trained a number of Indian players. Chennai: Goa’s 14-year-old Leon Mendonca has become India’s 67th chess Grandmaster by winning the third and final norm at a tournament in Italy. The player achieved his first …

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Goa's 14-year-old Leon Mendonca becomes India's 67th Grandmaster - Chess News - Sportstar
4 years ago

Goa's 14-year-old Leon Mendonca becomes India's 67th Grandmaster - Chess News - Sportstar

The Hindu  

Goa's 14-year-old Leon Mendonca has become India's 67th chess Grandmaster by winning the third and final norm at a tournament in Italy. The player achieved his first GM norm at the Rigo Chess GM Round Robin in October while the second came at the 1st Saturday event in Budapest in November and the final one at the Vergani Cup in …

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Indian chess player Leon Mendonca wins tournament in Hungary - Sportstar
4 years, 2 months ago

Indian chess player Leon Mendonca wins tournament in Hungary - Sportstar

The Hindu  

Young Indian International Master Leon Luke Mendonca earned his maiden Grandmaster norm after winning the title in Rigochess International Festival tournament in Hungary. The 14-year old Mendonca won six games, drew two and lost one to emerge winner in the 10-player field which included three GMs and was played over the board. He drew his third round match and then …

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Skalicky chess festival: Indian IM Leon Mendonca wins title
4 years, 4 months ago

Skalicky chess festival: Indian IM Leon Mendonca wins title

The Hindu  

Young Indian IM Leon Luke Mendonca emerged victorious in the Skalicky chess festival in Slovakia, with 7.5 points from nine rounds in the tournament. READ: Indian IM Mendonca bags Balaton Chess Festival title The 14-year-old Mendonca drew his last round game against Matyas Marek to pip Jan Vykouk for the title by a half a point. Mendonca had claimed second …

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Coronavirus: IM Leon Mendonca stuck in Hungary with father
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: IM Leon Mendonca stuck in Hungary with father

The Hindu  

With his father and some books for company at an apartment in Budapest, 14-year-old Indian chess player Leon Mendonca is not exactly feeling stuck even though he has been away from home for almost a month because of the coronavirus-forced travel restrictions. We were denied boarding as the Qatar Airlines crew said that they would be forced to fly us …

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Shuvalova closing in on World junior chess championship
5 years, 2 months ago

Shuvalova closing in on World junior chess championship

The Hindu  

Polina Shuvalova is set to be crowned the girls’ champion in the World junior chess championship. Polina battled to a 66-move win over Ukraine’s Mariia Berdnyk while displaying her uncompromising approach in squeezing out a win from a seemingly drawn position. In the open section, Ukraine’s Evgeny Shtembuliak retained his half-point lead after the top two boards ended in draws. …

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Environmental defenders—often fighting agribusiness—are being violently silenced around the world
5 years, 4 months ago

Environmental defenders—often fighting agribusiness—are being violently silenced around the world

Salon  

When armed gold miners in military uniforms invaded protected land in Northern Brazil and murdered Emyra Wajãpi, a 68-year-old activist and leader of the Wajãpi indigenous community, it was not an isolated incident. According to the report, he was “shot in May 2018 by two unidentified men,” after “leading member of an organization of indigenous farmers dedicated to promoting land …

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