Ahead of Karnataka's socio-economic survey, the Lingayat community's apex body urges its members to identify as Veerashaiva-Lingayat, pushi...

As Karnataka prepares for a socio-economic survey, the Lingayat community's apex body urges its members to identify as Veerashaiva-Lingayat...

The Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code panel report reveals stark demographic changes with migrants settling in plains, leading to 'ghost villa...

The population enumeration was supposed to be carried out from February 9 to 28, 2021 with a revision round from March 1 to 5, 2021. This c...

The proforma for the 2021 census has been announced, the petition said. It has 32 columns, which seek details of SCs, STs and religions suc...

In Chhattisgarh, the Muslim TFR of 2.1 was lower than the 2.2 for Hindus, and in Odisha Muslims had the lowest TFR among the three sizeable...

The community with the lowest fertility rate of 1.2 was the one with the highest level of education, especially for women, the Jains.

The average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime, or total fertility rate (TFR), has dropped below replacement for all reli...

Uttar Pradesh recorded an increase of 346 per cent in such incidents during last three years from 26 in 2014 to 116 in 2016, it said.

The Department of Personnel and Training has been collecting data on recruitment of minority communities since 2006-07.

As per data received so far from 69 ministries for the year 2014-15, 8.71 per cent of minorities have been recruited in government services.

The Centre awarded scholarships to more than 2.46 crore students belonging to minority communities between 2012-13 and 2014-15.

Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani will inaugurate the three-day state conference of Yogakshema Sabha on September 19.

The religion-wise population data released by the Government on Tuesday indicated a rise in the proportion of Muslim population in the coun...

Rajnath Singh has already given the green signal to release the data showing the religion-wise growth in population of the country, states ...

"Poverty is more prevalent among these three communities and that becomes an obstacle in dealing with the legal system," said Colin Gonsalv...

The missive is part of a government-funded survey of backward classes to review their social, educational and economic status. BPO Brigade ...