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Cementing exclusion: What the numbers say about SC, ST, OBC presence in India’s elite institutions

79 years post-Independence, the doors of higher institutes of learning are barely open for marginalised communities as a non-conducive environment flourishes

UP: Ramayana, Vedic Workshops in Govt Schools Challenged

Why the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government’s move of using public funds for imparting religious instruction violates Article 28 of the Constitution.

Mughals deleted from curriculum: history as political tool

The new education policy 2020 is being implemented gradually....

Revisiting Gijubhai: Pioneer of child-centric education and the caste debate

It was Krishna Kumar, the well-known educationist, who I...

Left maintains JNUSU foothold, absence of alliance gives ABVP a chance

Left has maintained a foothold in the JNU Students Union (JNUSU) elections; ABVP sneaks in as multiple candidatures muddy the fight

2025 NCERT Textbooks: Mughals, Delhi Sultanate out; ‘sacred geography’, Maha Kumbh in

 ‘NCERT has dropped all portions on Mughals from Class 7 Books. Students will now get to read about how Rajputs fought against nobody and lost!’ So, sarcastically wrote an ‘X’ user, Joy even as one more cut and slash action of the Modi 3.0 government with Indian social science/ history texts came to light; for the NDA II government this is only the latest in a long series of ad hoc deletions

Higher Education: How Centre is Undermining State Autonomy & Politicising UGC

The relentless centralisation of power, from the politically orchestrated VC appointments to sidelining state governments, threatens to suffocate intellectual diversity.

Why’s Australian crackdown rattling Indian students? Whopping 25% fake visa applications

This is what happened several months ago. A teenager...

Torn Pages, Broken Bones – The Violent Suppression of Teachers’ Voices

W.Bengal school teachers who were not involved in bribery fight to retain jobs.

Two Questions ‘anti-national’, says ABVP UP professor barred for life from setting exam papers

Vigilante justice UP style had a professor, Seema Panwar debarred from examination work for life after the ABVP “objected” to the two questions on RSS, its parent organisation, in a political science paper, at the Chaudhary Charan Singh University reports Omar Rashid for The Wire

Dissent Under Siege: Police action, suspensions, and the shrinking democratic space at TISS

Dalit scholar’s suspension for participating in protest, police detentions, and a court-backed curb on campus activism signal deepening threats to academic freedom and democratic expression in Indian universities

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Cementing exclusion: What the numbers say about SC, ST, OBC presence in India’s elite institutions

79 years post-Independence, the doors of higher institutes of learning are barely open for marginalised communities as a non-conducive environment flourishes

Himanta Biswa Sarma must resign as Chief Minister of Assam for serial violations of his oath of office: PUCL

The constitutional oath of office enjoins a chief minister to govern without ‘fear or favour, affection or ill-will’

Synthetic Content, Three-Hour Compliance and the Risk of Over-Removal: Analysing the IT rules amendments

While the government introduces safeguards against deep fakes and non-consensual imagery, the amendments also shorten response timelines and expand administrative takedown authority, prompting questions about due process and free expression