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World grew by 74 million over past year, says US Census Bureau

The US grew by almost 707,000 people over the past year

BS Number Wise: How many Indians? Census suspense beyond population size

Is the country getting older; how is the labour force faring: important questions about demographics await answers

Regardless of skepticism about NFHS data, male-female ratio is improving

Objecting to what the report has not counted and what it has misses the point that India's gender gap is mending.

Caste-based census legitimate demand, says NCBC chairman Sahni

Sahni said several organisations have met him with this demand

All-party meeting soon to decide on caste-based census in Bihar: Nitish

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that an all-party meeting would be convened soon to take a decision on conducting a caste-based census in the state. Talking to reporters here, Kumar said that he had clarified in the past that the option of carrying out a state-specific census exercise is open. "We (all party) will soon take up the matter. An all-party meeting will be called to arrive at a unanimous decision on the exercise. Whatever be the decision, it will have to be a unanimous one, he underlined. The Centre had in September told the Supreme Court in an affidavit that caste census of Backward Classes is administratively difficult and cumbersome and excluding such information from the purview of the exercise is a ''conscious policy decision''. Earlier, Kumar, as the leader of an all-party delegation from Bihar, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to press for inclusion of OBCs in caste census. Asked about his reaction to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad's latest remark that

Cabinet approval for new Census dates including NPR expected soon

The dates being considered are likely to somewhat delay the crucial population count later in calendar year 2022. The approvals for doing the exercise in 2021 have run out

Caste Census of backward classes administratively difficult: Govt to SC

Centre's stand assumes significance as recently, a 10-party delegation from Bihar, which was led by Nitish Kumar, had met PM Modi demanding caste Census

Demand for caste-based census growing, says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a votary of caste-based census, on Monday said several political parties in other states have started raising the same demand for caste enumeration

Spectre of caste census limits BJP's OBC politics

Even among OBC parties that support a caste census, this could be a miscalculation because these largely family-run 'Mom and Pop' shops are seen as representing the dominant castes among the OBC.

Caste politics

A census of this kind isn't good for the country

Will accept caste-based census if all parties agree: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she will accept a nationwide caste-based census if all political parties reach a consensus on the matter

Nitish Kumar leads all-party delegation to meet PM on caste census

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with a 10-member all-party delegation from the state on Monday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to press the demand for a caste-based census.

Nitish Kumar-led delegation to meet PM Modi today over caste census

Nitish Kumar-led ten parties delegation including Janata Dal (United), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and others will meet PM today at 11 am to demand caste-based census

Bihar CM-led delegation to meet PM on Aug 23 to discuss caste-based census

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Thursday said he along with representatives of all the parties in the state will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 23 to discuss the issue of a caste-based census

Census 2021 related field activities postponed due to Covid-19: Govt

The government informed Parliament on Tuesday

Census 1921 vs 2021: Capturing pandemic data, from Spanish Flu to Covid-19

There is no clarity on when the decadal Census 2021 operation will be complete, though the development of digital applications for data collection offers hope the work may pick up pace once begun.

PM asserted next census will be most remarkable, digitalised: NITI Aayog

Sitharaman, who presented the Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament, had said the forthcoming census - an exercise to determine the population of the country - would be the first digital census

Minority reports

Book review of The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India

Budget 2021: Rs 3,726 crore allocated for forthcoming Census, says FM

The government has allocated Rs 3,726 crore for forthcoming Census, which will be the first digital census, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday. Presenting the Union Budget for 2021-22, she said the government is also working on a national language translation initiative. Sitharaman also announced a deep ocean mission with an outlay of more than Rs 4,000 crore over five years. In other measures, she said the government has also proposed to set up a conciliatory mechanism for quick resolution of contractual disputes. Further, the government also proposed to introduce National Nursing and Midwifery Commission Bill, Sitharaman said.

Fertility rate falling, 2001-11 saw sharpest drop in 100 yrs: Census

The health ministry has emphasised India can achieve the goal of population stabilisation and at present India is knocking at the door of achieving replacement level fertility