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'It will lead to very dangerous impacts': Supreme Court stays new UGC Regulations on caste-based discrimination

January 30, 2026 9:16 am

Seeking a reply from the Centre, the Supreme Court also told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the government must constitute a committee comprising eminent jurists to address the issue of the UGC Regulation.

DU proposes removing 3 books by Kancha Ilaiah

Ban term 'honour killings', call it 'caste-based murders': Dalit activist Kancha Ilaiah

September 21, 2018 4:48 am

Ilaiah said that caste-based discrimination and killings should become an election issue in Telangana. He visited the family of P Pranay Kumar, the Dalit man who was hacked to death in Miryalaguda in Nalgonda district for marrying an upper caste woman

Five of Bihar family embrace Christianity, BJP team to probe

December 18, 2014 2:49 am

Villagers allege EBC family was promised medical treatment if they converted; Cops say conversions common in the area.

Semi-nude body of another woman found hanging from tree in UP

June 12, 2014 1:23 am

Circle Officer, Bahraich, Rajeev Kumar Singh said, as per the complaint, the victim had left home on Tuesday for Lucknow to visit a hospital.

LS polls: In a first,BJP to form backward morcha in state

June 30, 2013 2:53 am

In a bid to revive its backward castes votebank in UP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections,the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to form a new backward morcha (wing) in the state to ensure representation of all the backward castes in the party organisation.