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A recent Census Bureau report claimed thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 election. Experts, however, state the report's methodology is flawed and may create false positives

FIle Photo: Manipur Congress chief O Ibobi Singh urged the Centre to address the state s crisis, as civil groups and students pressed for NRC updation before the Census amid ongoing displacement. Bigger or Better: BEL s biggest shareholder is also its biggest

An Indian Express investigation has found that workers arrested during the April protests in Noida were jailed for an average of 53 days before courts intervened, granting bail in 84 per cent of cases involving substantive allegations. Judges held that mere pr

Yogendra Yadav argued in these pages ( Caste census is dead. Don t expect a formal announcement or funeral , IE, August 12) that the caste census exercise has been quietly killed by a technical choice an open-ended question inviting every Indian to name his ow

The Congress party has alleged that Census 2027's caste question methodology is flawed. They claim the census has a deeper nefarious purpose, citing new micro-questions

Two lakh trees have been mapped, geo-tagged and entered into a digital database across several parameters in Ludhiana, marking the first-ever tree census conducted for a Punjab city. The census assumes significance as the industrial city continues to grapple w

Addressing the nation on the 80th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a series of measures across artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, sports and other sectors. Several of these build on existing programmes or reiterate earlier ta

The Centre has asked Census officers to collect information on 40 specified items during the population enumeration phase. The list of questions covers basic demographic details such as name, relationship to the head of household, sex, date of birth, age, mari

A high-level panel headed by registrar general and census commissioner of India, Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, reached here on a three-day visit to study demographic changes arising from illegal immigration and other abnormal reasons, said people familiar with the

Thousands of members of the Ravidassia community gathered in Punjab s Phagwara on Sunday for a religious programme and to renew calls for a longstanding demand: the creation of a separate Ravidassia religion category in the Census. The Akhil Bharatiya Ravidass

A three-day annual Akhil Bharatiya Prant Pracharak Baithak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh concluded in Karnataka on Sunday, with the RSS expressing confidence that the investigation into the alleged donation theft at the Ayodhya Ram temple will take a deci

The Maharashtra government s decision to order a statewide audit of land owned by churches and Christian missionary organisations marks an unprecedented exercise in scrutinising Christian institutional properties. Triggered by an alleged Rs 300 crore land frau

With the BJP-led NDA government apparently mulling introduction of a fresh constitutional amendment Bill to advance reservation for women to 2029 along with the Delimitation Bill for expansion of the strength of the Lok Sabha from 543 members up to 850 MPs in

After a delay due to census duty assigned to teachers across Maharashtra, a new teacher-training schedule has been announced by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT). New...

Upholding the directions issued by the authorities concerned for entrusting census duties to the employees of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), the Allahabad high court dismissed a writ petition filed by the North Central Zone Insurance Employees, saying that...