India on Wednesday kicked off a mammoth exercise to count its entire population – all 1.4 billion of them, give or take a few, in a census initially delayed by the pandemic then administrative issues.

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By Shivangi Acharya NEW DELHI, March 30 (Reuters) - More than 3 million Indian officials are to spend a year counting every ...

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The two-phase exercise - the world’s most ambitious - will see three million officials count every Indian.

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