“No state will lose Lok Sabha share”: Narendra Modi defends delimitation, women’s reservation pushPrime Minister Narendra Modi assures states their Lok Sabha seat share will not decrease with new delimitation and women's reservation laws...
New Delimitation Bill 2026: What it means and its key proposalsThe government's tabling of the Delimitation Bill has ignited a political firestorm, particularly from southern opposition parties. The pro...
Women's Reservation Bill 2026: After 30 years, here's how India moves to reserve 33% seats for women in ParliamentParliament is considering a new law to bring 33 percent reservation for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies starting from the 2029 elec...
Manipur's political parties unite against delimitationPolitical parties in Manipur, including Congress and BJP, have united to oppose the Supreme Court's directive for a swift delimitation base...
EC set to start Assam's delimit exercise; 2001 census to be usedEC said Assam's chief electoral officer has been directed to "take up the matter with the state government to issue a complete ban on the c...
No. of girls migrating for education rising much faster than boys’While the number of boys migrating across states for education in the nine years preceding the census grew by 13% compared to the nine year...
Hindi mother tongue of 44% in India, Bangla second most-spokenThe percentage of Indian population with Hindi as their mother tongue has risen to 43.63% from 41.03% in 2001, Bengali remains second while...
2001 census to be used for reserving seats for SCs/STs: SCThe plea also referred to the rise in ST population in Sikkim and Bengal and said that not reserving the seats for them amounted to denial ...
Government releases religion-wise population data; 79.8% Hindus, 14.2% MuslimsThe religion-wise population data released by the Government on Tuesday indicated a rise in the proportion of Muslim population in the coun...
Muslims record decadal growth of 24.6 per cent, Hindus 16.8 per centMuslims recorded a decadal growth rate of 24.6 per cent between 2001 and 2011 touching 17.22 crores while the Hindus grew at 16.8 per cent.
Tamil Nadu, with 72 million people, records 80% literacyTamil Nadu recorded a population of 72,147,030, growing by 97.4 lakh persons in the last decade, of which 80.1 per cent are literates.
Goa witnesses substantial rise in urban populationDirectorate of Census Operations, which released the 2011 decadal census data today, has registered a total population of 14.58 lakh in Goa.
- Census 2011: Gujarat population touches 6 crore; urbanisation at 43%
Gujarat's population has reached 6.03 crore, while the urban population has risen from 37 per cent in 2001 to 43 per cent in 2011.
- Census of India 2011: Child sex ratio drops to lowest since Independence
Indicating a continuing preference for boys in society, the child sex ratio in India has dropped to 914 females against 1,000 males.
- Over eight crore tribal population as per 2001 census
There are 2,474 forest villages spread across 12 states. Of these, Assam has the max no of forest villages at 499 and UP has the least at 1...
- GIS, 3D imaging and scanners to ensure error-free Census 2011
During the 2001 census, the Office claims to have missed out 2.3% of households and citizens, especially people living in slums. Nearly 1.8...
- Guess who's speaking Arabic? 50,000 Indians
Would you believe that India has more than 50,000 people whose mother tongue is Arabic? Or that the largest chunk of these 'Arabs' is from ...