The Supreme Court will hear a plea challenging new UGC regulations on higher education equity. Critics argue the rules define ...

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

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

FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...

A Supreme Court plea challenges a new UGC rule. The rule defines caste discrimination narrowly, excluding students and ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

(RNS) — This January, California State University, the largest public university system in the United States, added caste to the anti-discrimination policy in its faculty collective bargaining ...

A report today says that Apple is ahead of most large companies in tackling a form of discrimination which originates in India but has affected employee recruitment in Silicon Valley: the caste system ...

In September 2025, the Supreme Court directed the UGC to tighten anti-discrimination rules, including policies on ragging and caste bias in higher educational institutions.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Caste is an ancient system of social ...