The BJP, which receives solid support from upper caste groups, is facing pushback over the UGC's new equity norms to deal ...

What is the UGC rule on caste discrimination? The University Grants Commission has notified new equity regulations to address ...

The writ petition by Advocate Vineet Jindal said the regulations notified on January 13, 2026 “adopts an exclusionary, ...

The UGC's new 2026 Equity Regulations aim to combat caste discrimination in higher education, mandating compliance and ...

How is caste discrimination observed and documented on campus? How much can the new UGC rules, now at the centre of a row, ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...

The Supreme Court suspended the UGC's 2026 regulations on caste-based discrimination, calling them vague. The court revived ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the University Grants Commission (UGC)'s recently notified rules to prevent caste discrimination in educational insti ...

It may seem bizarre that the caste system, a centuries-old system that organises and stratifies human society, continues to play a heavy role in deciding which Indians prosper and which don't within a ...

Brown University now explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of caste, joining a number of US colleges and universities in shoring up protections against an ill-understood, insidious form of ...

A caste-based polarisation, especially among the youth, that pits foundational constituents of the BJP's political edifice — the upper castes and Other Backward Classes — on opposite sides of the ...

The caste enumeration under Census 2027 will be carried out during the second phase of the population count that will begin ...