People line up outside a polling booth to cast their votes during voting for the Kerala state legislature elections in Kochi, India, April 6, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/R S Iyer The demand for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

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 ...

Maharashtra Food and Civil Supplies Minister Chhagan Bhujbal has announced that the Central Government has paved the way for a caste-based census following persistent demands for a separate ...

The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday announced that India will conduct its next population census in 2027, which will also include caste enumeration, marking a major shift in the country's demographic ...

Caste Census in India: Casteism has been a fixed part of India's social fabric for ages, influencing access to resources, education, and opportunities. The country's made some headway in pushing for ...

Mysuru (Karnataka), May 6 (PTI) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said that the ongoing caste census would form the basis for future policy decisions, asserting that the exercise was ...

The census that is about to be conducted will be the eighth since Independence and 16th in the series that started in 1880s, ...

When Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi rose to speak in the Lok Sabha on Friday, he did not begin with the South-may-lose-seats argument that has dominated headlines since the delimitation bill linked ...

(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 ...

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 ...