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

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

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

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

As India debates caste discrimination once again aftert the new UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulation 2026, in courts, campuses, and politics, a large-scale Pew ...

The steep rise in caste discrimination complaints in Indian universities has revealed a troubling paradox. Even as regulatory ...

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

In recent weeks, there have been efforts to outlaw what's known as "caste discrimination" in the U.S. Seattle became the first city to ban caste discrimination in February. Now California may add ...

California has moved one step closer to banning caste discrimination in the state. The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would update California’s civil rights law to explicitly include ...

(RNS) — The politics around California’s recently proposed legislation banning caste-based discrimination have become contentious. They shouldn’t be. Caste discrimination remains one of the least ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill earlier this month that would have made California the first state to ban caste-based discrimination. Senate Bill No. 403 would have expanded the definition of ...

To help combat caste-based discrimination, the Indian government saves spots at the best Indian universities for lower-caste students, who often take that opportunity and turn it into a tech job in ...