Kanniyakumari holds a distinctive place in Tamil Nadu’s political history. Despite nearly six decades of Dravidian dominance in the State, it became the first district to elect a Hindutva-backed candidate as early as 1989, when V. Balachandram of Hindu Desam won the Padmanabhapuram constituency
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After decades of debate, caste will be counted as part of the 2027 Census. From the ongoing pre-test and questionnaire design to past anomalies and the road ahead, here’s what you need to know
Vietnam has introduced a raft of incentives to encourage couples to have more children as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to reverse a fast-declining fertility rate. Gone is the country’s long-standing two-child policy, scrapped last year. In its place is a new population law, which took effect on July 1, offering a suite of sweeteners designed to nudge Vietnamese couples towards larger families. These include seven months of maternity leave for second children, subsidised prenatal and newborn...
Final methodology to enumerate caste as part of Census 2027 will be prepared based on the feedback received during the test exercise; the open column methodology had resulted in the 2011 caste survey returning over 46 lakh different ‘caste names’
Enumerators begin boundary mapping and building numbering; household data collection to begin in the next phase; personal information collected to remain strictly confidential
The Communist Party’s membership grew at a slower pace and its average age continued to climb last year, according to official data on the world’s second-biggest political party. In line with tradition, the data was released on the day before July 1, the date of the party’s founding in 1921. The party had 101 million members at the end of 2025, an increase of 1 per cent from the previous year, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Central Committee’s Organisation Department, the...