The government is set to ask people questions about their caste in the next census — the first such move in nearly 100 years. Experts say the results are likely to have significant consequences ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. government lawyers are scrambling to meet a court ordered Friday afternoon deadline to offer a plausible rationale for including a citizenship question on the country's 2020 census, ...

The first Census of 1872, which was conducted non-synchronously across India, put a set of 17 questions to respondents; the questionnaire of the last Census of 2011 had 29 questions and collected more ...

The Union government has announced that caste enumeration would be a part of the next nationwide census. Population enumeration by castes has not been published after 1931. The reason being that ...

One is the position that BJP leaders have taken publicly in the past, including the affidavit filed by the government in the Supreme Court in 2021 ruling out holding a caste census that year ... BJP ...

The idea of forcing a caste census was crystallised in the ‘Delhi Declaration’ adopted at a National OBC Conclave held at the Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi on December 21, 2021. This conclave ...

Despite Congress's claim that PM Modi reversed his stance on caste enumeration due to their pressure, the party highlighted the government's 2021 decision against a caste census and its plea to ...

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh attacked the Prime Minister over his announcement of a nationwide caste census ... 2021, as prayed, would tantamount to interfering with a policy decision as framed under ...

Calls the government's caste census decision a "diversionary tactic" in the face of demands for taking strong action against Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack ...

On July 20, 2021, the Modi Government told Parliament ... and whether he would commit to a timeline for the caste census. "Three questions to the Prime Minister @narendramodi, Will he have the ...

"On July 20, 2021 ... upcoming Census, 2021, as prayed, would tantamount to interfering with a policy decision as framed under Section 8 of the Act'," Ramesh said. Posing three questions to ...