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India's migrant workers face 10% productivity loss due to heat stress over past 4 decades: StudyHeat stress has impacted migrant workers in India. A study estimates a 10 per cent productivity decline over four decades. Rural-to-urban m...
Next Steps: Union Cabinet to decide on commission, terms for caste censusFollowing the caste census announcement, the Union Cabinet is expected to establish a commission to determine the castes and sub-castes for...
Caste Census announcement comes ahead of Bihar polls, implementing its outcome will pose a formidable challenge for governmentThe Modi government approved a caste census amid pressure from opposition parties and allies. Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar already o...
Centre plans to conduct census next year, no decision on caste yetThe Centre plans to conduct the delayed decadal census next year and complete it by 2026, updating the National Population Register. Discus...
Central govt to begin census from 2025The central government is set to resume the census next year after a four-year delay, with the previous census planned for 2021 postponed d...
India to begin delayed census in Sept as Modi looks to plug data gaps, sources sayIndia is set to begin its long-delayed population census in September, aiming to complete the extensive survey in about 18 months. The cens...
How caste survey could prove to be oppn's masterstroke against Modi, BJPThe release of the Bihar caste survey is expected to impact national politics by triggering consolidation among backward and extremely back...
Delay in India's census hurting quality of survey reports, says officialIndia's once in a decade census was due to be completed in 2021 but was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Technical and logistical ...
No plan to release 2011 caste census data: GovtUnion Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the SECC 2011, excluding the caste data, has been finalised and published by the Minist...
Sharp fall in marriages heightens China's concerns over declining birth rateA total of 7.63 million couples registered to get married across China in 2021, a record low for the past 36 years since 1986 when the Mini...
US life expectancy saw huge drop in 2020 due to CovidNew York showed the biggest decline, falling 1.6 percent in the year, mostly due to domestic migration out of the state, the agency said.
US population growth at lowest rate in pandemic's 1st yearThe United States grew by only 0.1%, with only an additional 392,665 added to the U.S. population, from July 2020 to July 2021, according t...
Declining marriage numbers add to China's demographic conundrumAs the demographic crisis deepened, China has permitted all couples to have two children in 2016, scrapping the draconian decades-old one-c...
Census may have to wait until next year or even 2022 if Covid-19 situation does not improveIn March 2020, days after imposition of lockdown on account of Covid-19, the home ministry had announced postponement of first phase of Cen...
In 2020, J&K administration busy with Investors Summit, census, Amarnath YatraThe Panchayat by-polls scheduled from March 5 have been deferred for three weeks citing security reasons, however, schedules have been anno...
No enumeration of OBCs in 2021 census: MHA“Union cabinet will have to take a decision for enumeration of OBCs in the Census. There is a provision for SC/ST in Census but not OBC,” t...
Home ministry takes up Telangana, Andhra Pradesh request for more MLAsGovernment sources said the revised Census of 2011, which was published in 2013, would now be considered to add to the list of reserved sea...