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 ...

The Supreme Court has stayed a recent University Grants Commission (UGC) regulation following petitions arguing that the ...

Petitions argue the 2026 regulations limit protection to reserved categories as students protest nationwide seeking inclusion ...

The Supreme Court will hear a plea challenging new UGC regulations on higher education equity. Critics argue the rules define caste discrimination too narrowly, excluding potential bias against ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the University Grants Commission (UGC)'s recently notified rules to prevent caste discrimination in educational institutions be kept in abeyance.

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

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the UGC regulation pertaining to the definition of caste discrimination.

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

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

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 ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a PIL challenging UGC’s 2026 caste discrimination rules. Petitioners call the definition ‘draconian’ and unequal but what exactly do the regulations say, and ...

The writ petition by Advocate Vineet Jindal said the regulations notified on January 13, 2026 “adopts an exclusionary, ...