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I have read this article in a Indian newspaper "The Hindu"

The minority scholarship quota for Muslims will be reduced drastically from 80% to 58.67% whereas the share of the entire christian community would be nearly 40.6% with the kerala (a state in India) High court ordering a population based allocation of the merit scholarship for the minorities.

My question here is , why will is used at first place and would is used at the second place? can't we use will in both the places?

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  • More context is needed. For example, the language makes sense if the quota reduction is predicted in all cases, whereas the Christian share prediction is predicated on the court outcome (and is therefore hypothetical). Please quote the preceding sentences that provide the context for the quota prediction.
    – Chemomechanics
    May 30, 2021 at 4:16
  • @Chemomechanics Thankyou so much for your help. Now I have edited and provided the link for that news article.
    – Ramteja Guthikonda
    May 30, 2021 at 4:21
  • Christian takes a capital C.
    – Lambie
    Sep 30 at 16:51

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(The quoted section begins the article, so there is no additional context available.) I agree with you; either "will" or "would" should be used consistently here, as the Muslim/Christian quotas are being presented in parallel. "Will" presupposes that the court's ruling will certainly be applied; "would" is more tentative.

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