If class status were to be added as a protected characteristic, it would need to have a definition; and it would be ...

The persistence of caste-based discrimination within Indian higher education is not a contested proposition. It is a ...

Tension between traditional spiritual authority and political Hindutva is growing. Religious leaders feel that the government ...

It is time to rethink reservations. What is needed is nothing less than a paradigm shift where we focus on economic rather ...

Over 8.57 lakh encroachers are occupying more than 5,404 sq km of land across Assam, the state assembly was informed on Friday.

The Supreme Court’s interim return to the 2012 UGC rules reveals a deeper discomfort with caste-based remedies. The pause ...

The Supreme Court’s decision to stay the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) ...

The plea assailed the regulation on the grounds that caste-based discrimination is defined strictly as discrimination against members of the SCs, STs and OBCs.

While the Centre's push for new UGC rules has been stayed by the Supreme Court, the Congress-led Karnataka govt has drafted Rohith Vemula Bill to counter discrimination in higher education ...

Why have there been protests? How have the regulations defined caste-based discrimination? Why were new regulations ...

TIRUPPUR: In a horrific crime a 13-year-old Scheduled Caste student was allegedly flung into a burning garbage pit by two ...

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