In his book Caste Matters, Dalit scholar Suraj Yengde highlighted the painful reality of caste oppression. He wrote, “Until my mother can sleep with reassurance without worrying about her son's ...

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday (February 4, 2026) that the questions on caste for the forthcoming Census will be notified before the commencement of the ...

Gazette notifications issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC), the statutory body that oversees higher education in India, usually don’t attract much public attention. However, a recent one ...

NEW DELHI: The home ministry on Wednesday told the Rajya Sabha that questions on caste — which is to be captured in the second phase of Census 2027, that is, the population enumeration phase — will be ...

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday stayed a new regulation for the University Grants Commission (UGC), which was meant to tackle the surge in caste-based discrimination on university campuses, ...

The Supreme Court on Monday (February 2, 2026) refused to entertain a PIL questioning the procedure to be adopted to record, classify and verify the caste data of citizens in the 2027 general census.

CHANDIGARH, (IANS) – A hard critic of the Khalistan movement and the survivor of a brutal attack in Vancouver in 1985, this 76-year-old former Canada’s British Columbia premier of Punjab origin, who ...

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday stayed the implementation of the 2026 regulations notified by the University Grants Commission to address discrimination, including caste-based bias, in higher ...

LOS ANGELES, CA – Two Indian American professors at California State University (CSU) have alleged that CSU’s non-discrimination policy, amended to single out ‘caste’ as a protected category, ...

Viewed from the lens of substantive equality, the Supreme Court order dated January 29, 2026, staying the UGC Regulations, 2026 [commonly called UGC caste regulations] is profoundly concerning.

The decennial enumeration of the country’s population is conducted in two phases by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, which comes under the Union Home Ministry.