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    Census News

    Centre develops framework to train Census enumerators on ‘sensitive’ questions

    The census will ask 40 questions to every household, 11 more than in 2011.
    India News
    Published 4 hours ago

    Census to begin early in 4 poll-bound states: Centre sets December 1 date

    The advance means the first caste enumeration in independent India will likely be held weeks prior to people in these four states casting their vote.
    India News
    Updated 7 days ago

    Enumeration for Census begins in snow-clad areas

    Chief Principal Census Officer of Ladakh and Jammu Kashmir Amit Sharma interacts during the Inauguration of Census 2027 Phase-II population enumeration begins across snowbound areas.
    India News
    Updated 11 days ago

    Manipur: Anti-Census protests continue amid demand for formal deferment order

    A rally demanding NRC updation before the Census 2027. (ANI)
    India News
    Published 12 days ago

    Govt defers Census 2027 in Manipur amid protests, demand for NRC

    Imphal: Women take part in protest rally 'Meira Rally' as they hold flame torches demanding updation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) before the Census in Manipur, at Khurai area, in Imphal on Aug. 21 (PTI FILE)
    India News
    Updated 12 days ago

    Three thresholds for census data collection

    The census is a vital tool for policy formulation and planning. Without good quality aggregate data, governments and administrative agencies often end up working blind.
    Opinion
    Published 17 days ago

    Kharge, Rahul urge PM to amend caste format in census form

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    India News
    Published 18 days ago

    ‘Misleading questions’: Kharge, Rahul write to PM Modi over caste census

    Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
    India News
    Updated 18 days ago

    Kuki-Zo Council opposes NRC before Census in Manipur calls demand ‘premature’

    The Kuki-Zo Council has opposed demands for NRC before the Census in Manipur, calling the move “premature and unjustified” and backing Census 2027. (ANI)
    India News
    Updated 20 days ago

    Manipur schools, colleges shut amid tensions over demands for NRC before Census

    There has been growing opposition to Census-related activities in the state. (ANI)
    India News
    Published 24 days ago

    Protest over census escalates in Manipur amid call to boycott govt institutions

    Market places, educational institutions, and public transport were also affected. (ANI)
    India News
    Published 24 days ago

    Terms of Trade | Social justice as garrison and vanguard

    Teams of census officials doing door-to-door house listing and housing surveys under the Census 2027 at Sector 19 in Noida
    Editors Pick
    Updated 24 days ago

    Population count begins today; caste query added for 1st time since Independence

    Officials involved in the Census 2027 exercise interact with residents during a door-to-door awareness campaign on self-enumeration, at Suri, in Birbhum district, West Bengal.
    India News
    Updated 27 days ago

    Caste, Aadhaar, mobile no, Covid vaccine status: What’s new in Census 2027

    The Census offers the option of self-enumeration: residents can log onto a website, answer the notified questions themselves and generate a code, which can then be handed to the enumerator.
    Ht Explainers
    Updated 29 days ago

    Caste among 40 questions notified for the second phase of the Census 2027

    Caste is being enumerated for the first time since independence.
    India News
    Published 30 days ago

    Caste, Covid vaccination: Centre notifies 40 questions for Census Phase 2

    Data collection for the Census-2027 underway in Ranchi on Saturday.
    India News
    Updated 29 days ago

    From flushing our toilets to building new schools, this is why filling in your census form matters

    From flushing our toilets to building new schools, this is why filling in your census form matters
    World News
    Published 41 days ago

    Lucknow's population nears 60 lakh ahead of Census 2027, up by 15 lakh from 2011

    Compared to the 2011 Census, the district has recorded an increase of nearly 15 lakh people.
    Cities
    Updated 85 days ago

    Which US states may lose white-majority populations by 2050? New census data

    The estimates indicate that the overall white population share in the United States could decline from nearly 80% in 1980 to 47% by 2050.
    World News
    Published 109 days ago

    Why does Andhra's Naidu govt want couples to have 3-4 kids? Two reasons, decoded

    Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu at the state secretariat in Amaravati.
    India News
    Updated 118 days ago

    ID for every household: Fully digital Census rolls out in city

    MLA Amin Patel has self-enumerated for the Census.
    Cities
    Published 132 days ago

    Census begins in Rajasthan; residents urged to complete self-enumeration online

    The process for "Census 2027" was formally launched in the state by Governor Haribhau Bagde at Lok Bhavan. (RAJ K RAJ /HT PHOTO)
    India News
    Updated 134 days ago

    Digital population count: Self-enumeration for Census to begin in Maharashtra from May 1

    Digital population count: Self-enumeration for Census to begin in Maharashtra from May 1
    Cities
    Published 135 days ago

    RGI orders village-wise mapping of vulnerable areas to ensure fair Census

    RGI orders village-wise mapping of vulnerable areas to ensure fair Census
    India News
    Published 142 days ago

    Strengthen organisation ahead of SIR, Census: Soren tells JMM cadre

    Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren addresses party members in Ranchi on Wednesday (HT PHOTO)
    Cities
    Published 143 days ago

    Census’ foot soldiers: Teachers step out as houselisting begins in Delhi

    An HT team spent Monday afternoon accompanying two groups of enumerators – one in NDMC’s VIP residences, and other to a jhuggi cluster.
    India News
    Updated 144 days ago

    Fraying of the federal pact

    The DMK has introduced a private member’s bill on women’s reservation, and the Congress and others have indicated they will back the move. A government, which rightly claims to have put women leaders in senior executive and constitutional positions, should consider how such a move could transform Parliament (ANI)
    Editorials
    Published 146 days ago

    Map on the Census portal shows Arunachal town in China, error corrected

    The issue surfaced when retired Group Captain Mohonto Panging Pao, a resident of Pasighat, attempted to register on the Census official website
    India News
    Updated 146 days ago

    Divided House, defeated bill

    Parliament froze the delimitation exercise in 1976 and 2001, amid fears among southern states that the polity would become lopsided in favour of the northern states. (HT Archive)
    Editorials
    Updated 148 days ago

    Census 2027 begins: Over 700 officials to conduct door-to-door survey

    The exercise will begin on Thursday in eight states and Union territories.
    India News
    Published 150 days ago
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