In two significant anti-narcotics operations, Assam Police have seized Yaba tablets and heroin with a combined worth of over Rs 9 crores. CM Himanta...
The 2012 regulations did not limit the definition of discrimination to select caste groups only. However, the 2026 UGC guidelines explicitly left out General Category students. 'Caste-based discrimination' in the new regulation was defined as discrimination only on the basis of caste or tribe against the members of the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and other backward classes.
The Supreme Court has stayed the UGC’s newly notified Promotion of Equity Regulations after petitioners challenged them as arbitrary, discriminatory and violative of the Constitution and the UGC Act, 1956.
PM Modi said President Murmu’s address reflected aspirations of 140 crore Indians, called the session extremely significant, noted India entering the century’s second quarter, and highlighted Nirmala Sitharaman presenting her ninth consecutive Union Budget soon today.
The Bench took note of recent dog bite incidents involving foreign tourists in Kerala and warned states that failure to act in sensitive public spaces like beaches could have wider economic consequences for tourism dependent regions.
Police action followed protests over an alleged conversion racket operating through a prayer meeting in Satlapur. The FIR names the husband-wife duo and another accused, citing coercion, inducements and pressure to change religion.
A headline-grabbing 118.4% rise, when stripped of institutional scale and context, turns limited data into a manufactured crisis to justify regulatory overreach.