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NEW DELHI: SC judge Ujjal Bhuyan Sunday said the political executive’s goal of Viksit Bharat by 2047 requires more room for debate and dissent without criminalising these, and erasure of “deep social fault lines” reflected in caste-based discrimination and atrocities on Dalits. Addressing the first national conference of SC Bar Association in Bengaluru, Justice Bhuyan…
The University of Delhi has strongly rejected remarks made by Rahul Gandhi suggesting that students were being failed on the basis of caste, asserting that the claims are not supported by facts and misrepresent how the university’s admission system operates.The university issued a firm clarification stating that admissions are conducted through the Common University Entrance…
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold the controversial UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026, taking serious exception to several of its provisions and saying that these could fuel societal division and have a dangerous impact on the goal of a casteless society.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant…
“Victory for us, guidelines were divisive:” Lucknow University students welcome SC’s decision to stay UGC’s new rules Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 29 (ANI): Lucknow University students on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court‘s decision to stay the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026.Soon after the decision, students raised slogans…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026, restoring the older 2012 framework for the time being. The court said the new rules suffer from vagueness, particularly in how caste-based discrimination is defined, and warned they could be misused.With…
PTI photo NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the University Grant Commission’s (UGC) new set of rules aimed at promoting equality in higher education institutions (HEI) amid nationwide protests over the legislation’s controversial definition of discrimination.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notices to the Centre and the…
NEW DELHI: Calling the new University Grants Commission (UGC) rules a “black law,” Bareilly city magistrate Alankar Agnihotri resigned on Monday, saying the new rules meant for higher educational institutions could foment caste-based discontent.Agnihotri alleged that the new UCC law would vitiate the academic environment in colleges and should be withdrawn immediately.Agnihotri, a 2019-batch Provincial…
BHOPAL: Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya caused outrage with his remarks on Friday that on seeing a beautiful woman “one can get distracted and rape may follow”. The MLA had then continued in the same appalling manner, saying that women from the SC, ST and OBC communities are “not beautiful” but were raped because of…
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued new rules called the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026. These rules apply to all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in India.The main aim is to stop caste-based discrimination and ensure equal treatment for everyone in colleges and universities. What is caste-based discrimination?…
