Statewide protests against the UGC’s new equity regulations intensified on Wednesday, with students, lawyers and local leade ...

Several stakeholders had approached the top court, contending that the rules were framed in a manner that effectively sidelines state legislations and existing university statutes.

Staying the operation of the new regulations, the court ordered that the earlier 2012 UGC regulations on caste-based discrimination would continue to remain in force until further orders.

The Chief Justice of India warned that failure to intervene against the new norms, which risk deepening societal divisions, would set the country backward and scheduled the next hearing for March 19, ...

The Supreme Court found prima facie merit in concerns that the 2026 rules, especially the definition of caste-based discrimination under Regulation 3(c), were vague and open to misuse. The bench ...

In his post, Singh noted that in December 2025, the parliamentary standing committee on education issued a report that, among other things, reviewed the draft equity regulations. However, the new ...

The plea alleged that the new UGC framework institutionalises discrimination by denying grievance redressal mechanisms to ...

The Supreme Court has stayed the UGC’s Promotion of Equity Regulations, 2026, citing concerns over clarity and possible misuse, and asked the Centre to rewrite the rules after protests and legal ...