What is caste and caste discrimination? “Caste” or a “caste system” is a social hierarchy passed down through families and can dictate an individual’s permissible professions as well as aspects of ...

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 ...

New Delhi, A plea was filed in the Supreme Court challenging a recently notified University Grants Commission regulation, alleging that it has adopted a non-inclusionary definition of caste-based ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a recent University Grants Commission (UGC) regulation after various pleas were filed contending that the Commission adopted a non-inclusionary definition of caste ...

A bill that would outlaw caste discrimination in California has cleared its first big legislative hurdle. On Tuesday, the state's Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of the legislation, sending ...

Petition by Vineet Jindal assails UGC Regulation 3(c) of the 2026 Equity Regulations for defining caste-based discrimination only against SC, ST, and OBC, calling it exclusionary and unconstitutional.

New Delhi [India], January 29 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, notified on January 23, ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the operation of the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) 2026 equity regulations pertaining to the definition of caste discrimination, and issued notices to the ...

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 ...

The plea in Supreme Court submitted that regulation 3(c) of the recently notified UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026 is "non-inclusionary" and fails to ...