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NEW DELHI: The government on Monday issued a notification for conducting India's 16th census with caste enumeration in 2027, 16 years after the last such exercise in 2011. The census will be carried out with a reference date of October 1, 2026 in snow-bound areas like Ladakh and March 1, 2027 in the rest of the country, the notification said. The reference date for the said census shall be 00.00 hours of the 1st day of March, 2027, except for the Union territory of Ladakh and snow-bound non-sync
NEW DELHI: Sources in the Election Commission (EC) rejected claims on Saturday of rigging in last year's Maharashtra Assembly polls and said defaming the poll panel after receiving an unfavourable verdict from the voters is absolutely absurd. The EC sources were responding to an article written by Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, alleging match-fixing in the Maharashtra polls. They said any misinformation being spread by anyone brings disrepute to the thousands of representati
India on Wednesday announced immediate suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan and closure of the Wagah-Attari border crossing, in response to the deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmirs Pahalgam that killed 26 people a day earlier. The decision came after a two-and-a-half-hour meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) , chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri detailed the governments response to the attack, which the CCS stron