In March, 2025, the Union home ministry had informed a parliamentary standing committee that the preparatory activities for the exercise have been completed. The decadal census is likely to begin ...

The Narendra Modi government’s decision to include caste enumeration in the next Census is one that is bold, transformative and commendable. Counting caste is not capitulation to identity politics.

Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. Criticising the caste census report tabled before the Karnataka Cabinet, Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday questioned ...

The most significant caste census in the history of Indian ethnography was not that of 1931. It was the 1911 census that catapulted the non-descript, oppressed and dehumanised community of ...

While it will provide a lot of information which was not available earlier, the broad contours of India’s caste composition are not exactly unknown The next census will also enumerate caste data ...

Nigeria’s last housing and population census was in November 2006, nearly two decades ago. It recorded a population of 140,431,790, with 71,345,488 males and 69,086,302 females. Since then, the ...

NEW DELHI: After launching a strong political narrative around reforming the Waqf system, the BJP is now preparing a broad outreach campaign on its decision to implement a caste census.

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.

ABUJA—The Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Abubakar Bagudu, said yesterday in Abuja that the presidential committee on population and housing census was an ad-hoc technical body ...

Following the contentious caste census, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has announced a statewide survey to gather empirical data on Scheduled Caste (SC) sub-castes. The exercise ...

Hitting out at the Congress, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday blamed the party for historically opposing caste census and assured that the Centre will include a caste-based enumeration ...

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to engage with all political parties and adopt the Telangana model for conducting a caste census.