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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.

Karnataka's home minister warns against using population alone for redrawing constituencies, fearing it may disadvantage states with stabilized growth.| India News ...

India’s 2027 census will shape how wealth and power is distributed and inform policies around castes and women in the world’s ...

India began the first count of its population in more than a decade at the start of April. The inaugural digital census is ...

The previous census in 2011 recorded a population of 1.21 billion. It’s now estimated to be more than 1.4 billion, making ...

India has begun its long-delayed national census, a policy-shaping exercise that will collect a wide range of data and, for ...

The first phase of Census 2027, focusing on house listing, starts today and will run until September 30. This census will be the largest globally, utilising digital methods for the first time. The ...

These are among the 33 questions that more than a billion Indians will be asked as the country launches the world's largest ...

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India’s future cannot rest on political deals between New Delhi and the States but must be a social contract that ensures ...

Young Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe workers are increasingly less likely to be working in industries traditionally associated with their communities, the report says, underlining how changing as ...