The petitioners submitted before the Supreme Court that the UGC regulations “institutionalise a narrow and exclusionary ...

Gazette notifications issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC), the statutory body that oversees higher education in India, usually don’t attract much p ...

The top court further noted that the new regulations had the potential to divide society and have "dangerous impacts" if ...

The BJP, despite its umbrella Hindutva assertion, has been more successful than other parties in cobbling coalitions with ...

Disha Wadekar says existing regulations already address complaints of victimisation and harassment from any student, ...

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

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

The UGC introduced new rules earlier this year to stop caste discrimination on campuses. It also set up a national monitoring ...

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

A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi ordered that the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026 r ...

The refusal to acknowledge casteism is a structural response to Dalit assertion, an indignation sparked by outspoken Dalit, Adivasi and OBC students. Students who file caste discrimination complaints ...

The UGC guidelines to tackle caste-based discrimination at universities have resulted in widespread backlash from general ...