Union Cabinet clears draft bill for amendments to Women Reservation ActThe Union Cabinet has approved a draft bill to amend the Women's Reservation Act. This amendment will increase Lok Sabha seats to 816, with...
08 Apr, 2026, 10.00 PM IST
Census boost for Home Ministry in Budget 2026; intelligence bureau gets 74% hikeBudget 2026: India's internal security budget sees a major increase. The Union government has allocated ₹2.55 lakh crore, a rise of nearly ...
02 Feb, 2026, 12.56 AM IST
Union Budget allocates Rs 6,000 crore for Census 2027The Union Budget has allocated Rs 6,000 crore for Census 2027, a significant increase from previous years. This decadal exercise, delayed d...
01 Feb, 2026, 04.34 PM IST
Congress questions Centre's intention on caste censusFollowing the government's census schedule announcement, Congress expressed doubts about the BJP's commitment to a caste census, despite as...
18 Jun, 2025, 12.19 AM IST
Parliamentary Panel urges fast-tracking census, calls for more funding for forcesA parliamentary panel led by BJP MP Radha Mohan Das has called for the swift completion of the Census. The panel emphasized securing increa...
18 Mar, 2025, 12.33 AM IST
Census, NPR unlikely in 2025 too as only Rs 574 crore allocated in budgetUnion Budget 2025: With only Rs 574.80 crore allocated in the 2025-26 budget, the decadal census appears unlikely to be conducted in 2025. ...
01 Feb, 2025, 04.36 PM IST
Ahead of Budget, MHA caps census survey expenditureThe Union home ministry has cut the budget for Census Survey and Statistics. The Registrar General of India will still proceed with the del...
13 Jan, 2025, 12.11 AM IST
Census, NPR, central police forces focus of MHA allocationThe 2023-24 budget allocates ₹2,19,643 crore to the Union home ministry, an increase from ₹2,02,869 crore. It includes ₹1,43,275 crore for ...
24 Jul, 2024, 12.04 AM IST
Census, NPR unlikely in 2024 too as only Rs 1,309.46 crore allocated in BudgetThe Indian government has allocated Rs 1,309.46 crore for the 2024-25 Budget, a significant reduction from the previous year's Rs 3,768 cro...
23 Jul, 2024, 04.49 PM IST
Census, NPR unlikely in 2024 too as only Rs 1277 cr allocated in budgetA meeting of the Union cabinet on December 24, 2019 had approved the proposal for conducting census of India 2021 at a cost of Rs 8,754.23 ...
01 Feb, 2024, 05.40 PM IST
Parliamentary panel flags shortfall in fund utilisation by MOSPI, time lag in release of PFLS reportsThe panel is of the view that 73.53 per cent shortfall in fund utilisation cannot be justified by COVID-19 pandemic alone.
22 Mar, 2022, 08.00 PM IST
Women constitute just 3.68 pc in central police organisations: Parliamentary panel"The committee is disappointed to note that women constitute only 3.68 percent of the total strength of the Central Armed Police Forces (CA...
14 Mar, 2022, 05.40 PM IST
Census and NPR update to be delayed; RGI to surrender fundsThe last decadal survey was held in 2011 and was due to be conducted in 2021, but it was postponed in the wake of the Covid-19-induced nati...
23 Nov, 2021, 11.50 PM IST
Home Ministry gets over Rs 1.66 lakh crore in budget, over Rs 3700 crore for census-related worksThe MHA has been allocated Rs 1,66,546.94 crore for the next fiscal with Rs 1,03,802.52 crore for the central armed police forces like the ...
01 Feb, 2021, 09.46 PM IST
MHA gets Rs 1.05 lakh crore; emphasis on police, censusIn comparison to Rs 1,03,202.23 crore given in 2019-20, the Home Ministry got Rs 1,05,244.34 crore for 2020-21, a modest increase of around...
02 Feb, 2020, 07.08 AM IST
Pakistan to conduct general census next yearThe preliminary results of the census could be compiled by June, 2016 while activities like the district-wise data reports would be compile...
30 Apr, 2015, 01.24 PM IST
- Varsity to help PMC complete tree census
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will complete the task of tree census with the help of the Pune University (UoP).
03 Jul, 2011, 06.56 AM IST