The last Census (2011) recorded 330.84 million houses in India. Geotagging will be done during the Houselisting Operations (HLO), the first phase of the Census, scheduled for April-September 2026.

Bengaluru: Enumerators across Greater Bengaluru have abandoned the use of the unique household identification (UHID) system ...

(CNN) — For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. (CNN) — For ...

Until the indefinite postponement of its 2021 census, India was perhaps the only country outside the West that could boast of an unbroken chain of censuses starting in the late 19th century. Newly ...

How do we possibly understand India’s demography in pre-modern times? As we move further back into the past, the sources of ...

On April 30, the BJP-led central government reversed the decades-long practice of excluding caste enumeration for the ...

The Karnataka CM also hit out at the opposition BJP, alleging that the party wants inequality to persist in society because ...

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 2027 Indian Census represents a shift from the conventional method. Nearly 34 lakh enumerators would use their personal devices to gather data. This will be the nation's first entirely digital ...

ON GANDHI JAYANTI, a national holiday, Nitish Kumar caused a stir. The chief minister of Bihar, a big and poor north Indian state, chose a day that honours Mohandas Gandhi (who fought against caste ...

The Wildlife Institute of India is working on the 2026 tiger census. Directed by the Union Forest Ministry and NTCA, the ...