India debates the need for a new caste census. Existing data from NFHS and NSS already provide caste demographics and socioeconomic indicat...

BJP is regaining political strength after election successes in Maharashtra and Haryana. These victories have bolstered the party's stance ...

The Congress party on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi announce the timeline for the updated census, emphasizing the need ...

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stance on various promises made in Telangana, including ...

When two new and knotty issues loom as 'game-changers', it would be naive to conclude that the assembly polls next month in five states sha...

Sound data is the bedrock of evidence-based policymaking. Without robust data to rely on, policy moves degrade into policy conjectures. The...

States have not suddenly been empowered to conduct their own caste census, as a regional party leader claimed. There is a difference betwee...

The future definition of poverty line cannot be the subsistence level income required by an individual but will have to factor in living st...

As per the estimates, restructuring the three key social pensions will incur an additional expenditure of Rs 10,000-12,000 crore over prese...

If cleared, the loans waiver scheme will also lead to some stress on the state's fiscal arithmetic as it would cost state govt around 8% of...

In the 2014 LS polls, TMC was less than 5,000 votes short of CPM in this assembly segment of Uttar Malda seat.

The Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin, earlier known as the Indira Awas Yojna, will start from April 1 this year and run till March 2018-1...

Lalu Prasad on Sunday demanded separate budgetary provisions for backward classes in proportion to their population in the country.

From 1 alleged killing of a cow in Dadri to 855-point decline in Sensex on Jan 6 , here's a list of 15 numbers that framed the year 2015.

The SECC needed two personnel and one digital tablet each to enter responses that would automatically upload data every day to the central ...

The ambitious law pushed through by the previous UPA govt that aims to cover three-fourths of the country’s population is yet to be impleme...

In our view, the National Food Security Bill, instead of solving the problem of exclusion and inclusion error, has given ways to augment su...