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Topic: UGC

St Stephen’s students are divided between backing DU intervention and first woman principal

Susan Elias’s appointment was seen as a moment of change at St Stephen’s, but DU’s objection has plunged the college back into crisis.

Yet another govt scholarship under fraud cloud: CBI claims discrepancies in disability funds disbursal

Central agency claims, in an FIR lodged Wednesday, that Rs 11.41 crore was sanctioned to non-existent students or to fictitious or non-functional educational institutions.

Kalraj Mishra: How the BJP old-timer & Brahmin flag-bearer is stirring the political pot in UP

Mishra has served twice as UP BJP president, and three terms as Rajya Sabha member. He was a Union minister from 2014 to 2017, and has been governor of Himachal and Rajasthan.

Visually-impaired student’s court battle puts end to MBBS transfer ban. ‘PwD Act can’t be decorative’

The order was a response to a petition by Sahil Arsh, an MBBS student suffering from a 40% visual impairment and denied a transfer to a Delhi college despite deteriorating health conditions due to high temperatures in Barmer.

How neo-casteists set up a symphony orchestra to make UGC equity guidelines fail

In the Indian education system, neo-casteism encompasses many forms of caste-based profiling, manipulation of nomenclature, political rigmaroles, and fearmongering.

New UGC rules on hold: Why Supreme Court believes they are ‘regressive’, can deepen caste divisions

Regulations exclude ragging, presume only certain castes can discriminate, petitioners argued. Bench suggests setting up expert committee of sociologists the rules.

Some OBCs were ‘dominant’ in medieval India. How history can decode the UGC controversy

Temples, military labour markets, and land-grant regimes structured medieval caste hierarchies. Today, access to education, employment, bureaucratic categories, and media platforms do.

Another UP officer resigns, this time in support of CM Yogi as Shankaracharya row escalates

As the Shankaracharya row escalated, GST Deputy Commissioner Prashant Kumar Singh quit, citing 'moral responsibilities towards the government that pays my salary'.

New UGC rules challenged in Supreme Court, plea seeks ‘caste-neutral’ definition of discrimination

In September 2025, the Supreme Court directed the UGC to tighten anti-discrimination rules, including policies on ragging and caste bias in higher educational institutions.

On Camera

Lamine Yamal’s Palestine flag moment exposes what football celebrates—and what it fears

Lamine Yamal's brilliance on the pitch has given him a microphone to voice out beyond the pitch. It separates him from other young talents.

Maharashtra Charity commissioner halts key Tata Trusts meeting citing pending probe

The pivotal board meeting scheduled for 16 May was expected to see trust chairman Noel Tata nominating new board members of Tata Sons Pvt, the group’s holding company.

Drones no longer enablers, they’re replacing manned aircraft roles—CISC Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit

Speaking at IAF think-tank seminar, Air Marshal Dixit was backed by Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh, who said unmanned aerial systems are no longer just the eyes in the sky but ‘claws in the sky’.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.