How a 16-year census gap left millions hungry and what first-mover Telangana’s audacious counting exercise reveals about the ...

Sukhwinder Kaur battles the scorching sun as she trudges door-to-door in New Delhi as part of India's colossal exercise to ...

The population count, which was delayed by five years, will include caste enumeration for the first time in a century.

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

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

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country. Information ...

The initial phase, focusing on House Listing and Housing, will begin with a 15-day self-enumeration window from April 1 to April 15 in select regions, including Goa, Karnataka, Odisha, and Delhi’s ...

Publicly identifying their faith can lead to consequences for lower-caste Christians and those in religiously hostile states.

India’s long-delayed census is finally back on track, with house-listing operations beginning this month. The data collected during this phase will be used to plan the population enumeration exercise ...

Maharashtra teachers face FIR threats for missing voter duty amid overlapping census work and new curriculum training, raising concerns about workload.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world's most populous nation has kicked off a census that will take a year to complete [File: RS Iyer/AP] India has begun ...

Information Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw didn’t say when the census would begin when he announced it would include caste information Wednesday. He said the decision demonstrated New Delhi’s commitment to ...