The UGC has introduced new regulations to enforce anti-caste discrimination measures in higher education institutions. However, experts and critics question the need for these rules given existing ...

In communications sent to the Indian government on 19 January, the UN body warned that security, citizenship and conservation policies may be operating in racially discriminatory ways, raising concern ...

India has lately become infamous for its epidemic sexual violence and discrimination against women. Sexual harassment there is so rampant that it even has a nickname: Eve-teasing. But mothers may be ...

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 ...

MUMBAI, India – Dalit Catholics of the Kottapalayam village in the Kumbakonam Diocese of the India state of Tamil Nadu organised a hunger strike near the district collector’s office on July 21, ...

UGC's 2026 equity regulations aim to tackle discrimination across caste, gender, disability and institutional power. Yet ...