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No evidence of ragging or caste bias in Dharamshala student death case, st
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
A state-level inquiry committee probing the death of a 19-year-old student of a government college in Dharamshala has found no evidence of ragging, use of casteist remarks or indecent behaviour by teachers or students, officials said on Thursday, even as the police investigation, includin
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"Govt absolutely abdicated its responsibility": Priyanka Chaturvedi welcom
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
Welcoming the Supreme Court's stay on the new University Grants Commission's equity regulations, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Thursday criticised the central government for "abdicating its responsibility," following widespread backlash on the regulations.
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"True justice doesn't involve injustice to anyone": Akhilesh Yadav's welco
Updated : 1 month, 2 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, 2 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
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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, 2 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
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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, 2 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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Amid uproar, SC stays UGC's new regulations, 2012 rules to continue
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The Top Court said that, for now, the 2012 UGC regulations will continue to apply.
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Students protest against new UGC guidelines at DU North Campus
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Students, mostly belonging to the general category, staged a protest on Wednesday at Delhi University's North Campus against the newly notified University Grants Commission (UGC) equity rules, demanding their immediate withdrawal.
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"New UGC guidelines will increase separatism, violate fundamental rights":
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"We have demanded that the unconstitutional rules, which are based on caste discrimination, and which include OBCs, should be amended. I believe that all sections of society need to be included in this," Mishra told ANI.
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Congress' Digvijaya Singh calls for resolution of issues in new UGC guidel
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"The UGC's final Regulations also got rid of a separate provision that penalised students for lodging false cases of discrimination... the protests against the Regulations are by General category students and largely concentrated on two issues - removal of provisions penalising students f
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