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NEW DELHI: The 21st Livestock Census report, which was expected to be made public late last year, is likely to be released after June, as technical glitches in data compilation and validation have delayed its finalisation.An official said data validation was in process. “This is expected to be completed by June. The report can be…
In 2027, most Indian cities will show a decline in crime rate. That is a safe prediction to make. Historical precedent suggests crime rates in large Indian cities fall sharply in a Census year.This is not because of better policing, but because of a mathematical glitch — one that the National Crime Records Bureau mentions…
RAIPUR: Sukma’s once most dreaded Puvarti village- the native place of slain Maoist commander Hidma=has emerged as district’s first to complete the initial phase of census enumeration, and that too in just three days.Located in the remote Konta block, Puvarti’s achievement is being seen not merely as an administrative milestone but as a marker of…
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh will undertake the census 2027 exercise in two distinct phases, beginning May 2026, with one of the largest administrative deployments in the country involving nearly five lakh enumerators and supervisors. The scale of the exercise will spread across 75 districts, more than 1.04 lakh villages and 783 towns.According to Sheetal Verma, director…
New Delhi: Aligning Congress with arguments of Mandal parties on women’s quota, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday accused govt of avoiding Census 2027 to rob backwards of their rights.As she rejected the Delimitation Bill, Priyanka said, “If this bill is passed, democracy will end in this country.”Priyanka also alleged in LS that political weight of…
New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah seized on Samajwadi Party MP Dharmendra Yadav’s demand for quota for OBC and Muslim women to hammer home his party’s avowed opposition to reservation based on religion.He also reiterated govt’s stand that the caste of citizens will be mentioned during the ongoing census to reject SP chief Akhilesh…
NEW DELHI: Around 12 lakh households across 11 states and Union Territories have self-enumerated so far for the houselisting operations (HLO) phase of Census 2027. More than half of these households availed of the self-enumeration facility in the past four-five days.With the conclusion of the 15-day self-enumeration window on Wednesday across the Andaman and Nicobar…
NEW DELHI: Amplifying the opposition’s protest, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi Monday raised questions about the delimitation being planned by the Modi govt by arguing that it must be preceded by a census and delimitation should be “politically equitable”. She has also sought “OBC sub-quota” for women, underlining that Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had made the…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday accused the Modi government of attempting to put the caste-based census “in cold storage”, alleging inconsistencies in its stand over the years.In a post on X, Ramesh outlined what he described as a shifting position by the Centre. He said that on July 20, 2021, the government…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday participated in the self-enumeration initiative for the Census 2027 at Rashtrapati Bhavan, according to the President’s Office.Murmu entered her household details on the official portal in the presence of home secretary Govind Mohan, registrar general and census commissioner of India Mritunjay Kumar Narayan and other senior officials, the…
