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"True justice doesn't involve injustice to anyone": Akhilesh Yadav's welco
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has welcomed the Supreme Court's stay on the new University Grants Commission's equity regulations.
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Institutional use of caste discrimination is dangerous, says Alankar Agnih
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Speaking to ANI, Agnihotri said that caste-based discrimination should never be used as an institutional tool and should remain confined to appropriate vocabulary and discourse. He alleged that the clause related to caste discrimination is increasingly being treated as a self-inflicted cr
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"Guidelines were outcome of SC's order, government diluted it": CPI MP Joh
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
He added that the guidelines' scope should have been broadened and lamented that political controversy, driven by the BJP, should not come at the expense of students.
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"Victory for us, guidelines were divisive:" Lucknow University students we
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
The new UGC regulations, notified on January 23, were challenged by various petitioners as being arbitrary, exclusionary, discriminatory and in violation of the Constitution as well as the University Grants Commission Act, 1956.
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Cong MP Pramod Tiwari hails Supreme Court's decision to stay UGC's new reg
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Congress MP Pramod Tiwari accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for diverting from "real issues" of a country, adding that government's job is to ensure peace, but they "ignite fire in the name of religion and caste."
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"SC has stayed the UGC Regulations and kept them in abeyance," says petiti
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
He informed that the apex court has directed that the UGC Regulations of 2012 will remain in force until further orders. The matter has been listed for hearing on March 19.
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"Educational institutions will become centres of controversy": Bar Council
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
BJP MP in Rajya Sabha and Chairman of Bar Council of India, Manan Kumar Mishra, criticised the University Grants Commission's (UGC) new regulations to curb caste-based discrimination in colleges and universities, stating that educational institutions will become "centres of controversy."<
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Trying to divide people through UGC: UP Congress President slams Centre ov
Updated : 1 month, 4 weeks ago IST
Reacting to the new University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations to deal with caste-based discrimination, Uttar Pradesh Congress President Ajay Rai on Tuesday alleged that the Central government was trying to divide people through the UGC.
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Failed relationships cannot be criminalised: Delhi HC quashes rape and SC/
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Observing that "a consensual relationship turning sour cannot be retrospectively branded as rape", the Delhi High Court has quashed an FIR alleging rape and caste-based atrocity, holding that the criminal law cannot be invoked to settle personal grievances arising from a failed relationsh
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Delhi Police clarifies no religious conversion attempt in Jamia Millia Isl
Updated : 2 months ago IST
According to the police, an employee of JMI Polytechnic had lodged a complaint against an Associate Professor of the Civil Engineering Department, alleging physical assault, manhandling, and the use of caste-based slurs and abuses. The complaint also stated that a physical scuffle occurred o
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YSRCP leader Sudhakar Babu calls murder of party activist a "government ki
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Addressing the media at the YSRCP central office, Babu said hundreds of YSRCP workers continue to live outside their villages due to threats by ruling party leaders and local police, and that Salman, who returned only to see his ailing wife, was brutally beaten to death with iron rods. Read More
Andhra Pradesh: YSRCP leaders attend last rites of party activist Salman i
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Addressing the media after meeting Salman's family at the Guntur Government Hospital mortuary, Reddy on Friday said the brutal killing of Salman has exposed how villages are being turned into zones of fear, hatred and political and caste-based persecution under the coalition government. Read More
