The Latest Breaking News from Census

“Reservation for women can be implemented in the Parliament and State Assemblies today itself, but the BJP government wants to postpone it for 10 years,” Mr. Gandhi said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that irrespective of the Opposition’s support, the women’s reservation Bill will be implemented only after 2029.

After the expanded credit took effect, child poverty hit a historic low of 5.2% a year ago. New Census data shows it has since rocketed to 12.4%. Doctors are seeing this play out in real time.

Census Bureau data show the number of foreign-born people rose by nearly a million in 2022 after years of little growth. Experts say the increase coincides with a gradual reboot of legal immigration.

Experts point to the expanded child tax credit as key to this poverty yo-yo. When it ended, many lower-income families struggled to pay their bills or buy enough food.

A majority of Native American tribes won't get the full suite of detailed demographic data from the 2020 census they had in the previous census

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Attacking the Modi government on the first day of the G-20 summit, citing the more than three-year delay in conducting the census, the Congress called it “unprecedented failure”, and accused the government of “suppressing” data that it finds “inconvenient”

Minor Irrigation Census (MIC) finds electricity is the dominant source of power for water extraction, powering 76% of sources. Tubewells and borewells capable of extracting water from greater depths are on the rise. 23.14 million Minor Irrigation schemes reported in 695 districts and 6,47,394 villages, mostly privately owned. UP has…