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  Census 2027: Dry run states, new features, and story behind six-year gap

  India | November 03, 2025 13:48 IST

  India is set to conduct its first fully digital Census in 2027 after a six-year delay. The government has announced a pre-test phase, new features like self-enumeration, geotagging of buildings, and inclusion of caste data at the national level.

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  With births down, U.S. had slowest growth rate in a century

  World | December 31, 2019 8:03 IST

  The U.S. grew from 2018 to 2019 by almost a half percent, or about 1.5 million people, with the population standing at 328 million this year, according to population estimates.

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  3 million girl child 'missing' in India's population chart

  India | October 09, 2012 23:41 IST

  New Delhi, Oct 9 : In an alarming trend, girl child numbers in India have shown a sharper decline than the male children in the decade beginning 2001, leading to a skewed child sex ratio.Ahead