Indian society rests on a graded hierarchy called caste, which Dr BR Ambedkar described as “an ascending scale of reverence ...

The new UGC guidelines are here, and the debates have started on the very fundamental issue of whether they will reduce caste ...

UGC 2026 anti-discrimination rules face criticism as student groups protest potential harassment of general category students. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan assures fair grievance handling ami ...

The Supreme Court has stayed the operation of the University Grants Commission’s 2026 equity regulations dealing with the definition of caste discrimination, raising serious concerns about their ...

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 ...

Yengde is right that India cannot fix sanitation without confronting caste psychology India also cannot fix sanitation ...

The petition argues that by confining the scope of caste-based discrimination strictly to SC, ST, and OBC groups, the ...

Fifty years after bonded labour was outlawed in India, trafficking, forced work, and failed rehabilitation continue to trap millions of workers, revealing a deep crisis of implementation and ...

How an investigative report forced the Supreme Court to confront entrenched caste discrimination in India’s prisons—and why change remains elusive ...

Warning that the new rules could divide society and leave victims without remedies, the Supreme Court put the UGC’s 2026 ...

Mohan Bhagwat at an event in Mumbai compared dharma to an infallible driver, 'Whether Narendra bhai, me, you, or anyone- one ...

The origin of the caste system does not lie in religious ideas of purity and pollution, racial differences, tribal or Harappan customs — or even the British census, as recent social media commentary ...